So this game may or may not be out for you, depending on where you live and how much people do or don't give a fuck about street date releases ;p
In terms of content this game is really filled.
It has an actual complete story mode that takes you through 16 characters Johnny Cage->Sonya Blade->Scorpion->Cyrax->Liu Kang->Jax->Smoke->Sub Zero->Kitana->Jade->Kung Lao->Striker->Kabal->(Spoiler)->Nightwolf->Raiden. It takes place after Mortal Kombat Armageddon, but due to certain events you end up reliving Mortal Kombat 1-3, don't want to spoil too much here, because the story mode is actually one of the games biggest highlights, it's rare for a fighting game to deliver any kind of story mode that makes sense, and this one is actually a joy to play through, it's really cool watching the first and second Mortal Kombat tournaments unfold.
If you want you can play it old arcade style and pick any character and just fight through a bunch of people and eventually fight Shao Khan and get a character ending(Maybe the original endings since the story mode changes things)
There's alot of little things to unlock, you get points from doing the story mode, and playing online. These unlock new fatalities, outfits, stages, character art.
There's an event tower with like 300 challenges, and the challenges range from easy to downright absurd.
There's a place that lets you practice just your fatalities so if you wanna run through and see them all or practice execution before going online and murdering people that works.
The online is kind of neat as well, there is a spectator mode with large lobbies, so while people are fighting you can shoot off tiny comments about stuff you see on screen, and after someone wins you can rate their play 1-10.
Speaking of online, this game is fairly scrub fairly, same as most MK games, you don't need to be terribly skilled to win , spamming the same cheap move repeatedly is about as efficient as trying to do fancy things, especially online where lag plays a factor in reactions. Jury is still out if this game has as much depth as say Street Fighter IV(I'm thinking no, but maybe I'll see something otherwise to convince me), BUT I won't deny its alot of mindless fun to start with, same as the original 3 MK games.
Anyway if any of you guys pick it up, lemme know what you think.
In terms of content this game is really filled.
It has an actual complete story mode that takes you through 16 characters Johnny Cage->Sonya Blade->Scorpion->Cyrax->Liu Kang->Jax->Smoke->Sub Zero->Kitana->Jade->Kung Lao->Striker->Kabal->(Spoiler)->Nightwolf->Raiden. It takes place after Mortal Kombat Armageddon, but due to certain events you end up reliving Mortal Kombat 1-3, don't want to spoil too much here, because the story mode is actually one of the games biggest highlights, it's rare for a fighting game to deliver any kind of story mode that makes sense, and this one is actually a joy to play through, it's really cool watching the first and second Mortal Kombat tournaments unfold.
If you want you can play it old arcade style and pick any character and just fight through a bunch of people and eventually fight Shao Khan and get a character ending(Maybe the original endings since the story mode changes things)
There's alot of little things to unlock, you get points from doing the story mode, and playing online. These unlock new fatalities, outfits, stages, character art.
There's an event tower with like 300 challenges, and the challenges range from easy to downright absurd.
There's a place that lets you practice just your fatalities so if you wanna run through and see them all or practice execution before going online and murdering people that works.
The online is kind of neat as well, there is a spectator mode with large lobbies, so while people are fighting you can shoot off tiny comments about stuff you see on screen, and after someone wins you can rate their play 1-10.
Speaking of online, this game is fairly scrub fairly, same as most MK games, you don't need to be terribly skilled to win , spamming the same cheap move repeatedly is about as efficient as trying to do fancy things, especially online where lag plays a factor in reactions. Jury is still out if this game has as much depth as say Street Fighter IV(I'm thinking no, but maybe I'll see something otherwise to convince me), BUT I won't deny its alot of mindless fun to start with, same as the original 3 MK games.
Anyway if any of you guys pick it up, lemme know what you think.
Last edited by Eric on Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
