These mechanics are simple in nature, but can be layered and tweaked to create a unique strategy. However, though the story certainly is cool (and is definitely one of the most comprehensive I've seen in a fighting game) the real meat of the game is in its battle system, which I'm happy to say has returned to simpler combo-based mechanics.
Enough modifications to the original are made that the story will still be interesting, but Mortal Kombat is still Mortal Kombat, and you'll still get the experience you paid for (don't expect anyone to go flying off in a spaceship or anything). If you are a big fan, though, you'll be able to spot where the alternate reality deviates from the canon, and some of the changes made are actually quite intelligent. If you are new to the series, everything will flow fairly cohesively, and you'll get a pretty cool tournament-based story. The story is fairly expansive, and covers the events of the first three numerical entries. And then it's off to alternate universe land. However, Raiden, being the magical guy that he is, is able to send his past self a premonition about all the bad stuff that is about to transpire. The storyline actually starts you off at the end of the Mortal Kombat story, and it looks like perennial bad guy Shao Khan has actually come out on top and Earthrealm is toast. Mortal Kombat is one of the few games that plays well no matter whether you are a newbie or an experienced franchise player. However, with the release of Mortal Kombat (which is actually the ninth entry in the series, for those of you keeping score) it looks like the franchise is back on track. DC Universe, but that's a story for another day), but so much had changed since the franchise's inception that fans were starting to become disenchanted with Mortal Kombat, and for good reason. Sure, games bearing the Mortal Kombat name still had over-the-top gore (except the horribly tame Mortal Kombat vs. In the midst of all this change, the core experience of Mortal Kombat seemed to have eroded. A traditionally 2D fighter suddenly went to 3D, storylines got muddled up with extraneous characters and universes, and crossovers became the new numerical entry. While I'm all for evolution in a series, Mortal Kombat took this to an extreme, and some strange things started happening. I'm not a huge fan of all the weird newer characters in the latest game before this one.Over the years, as the fighting game genre became more crowded, something weird happened to the Mortal Kombat series. I hope they are brought back one way or another so they arn't off the roster and out of the storyline indefinitely. then many fan favorites are gone and earth realm is pretty much screwed with the next attack from Nether Realm.īut hey, Reptile and Cyrax are still alive and they are my favorites so I shouldn't care right ?.But I do x_x. I mean, with way less fighters, possibly only 2 left if all the implied ones are dead. Sindel just kinda god-modded for a few minutes and obliterated a lot of people.The story was told really well and I enjoyed it, but with such choices made, Unless they in one way or another bring back some dead characters I don't know how they are gonna make there next game in this story canon. It's implied that pretty much everyone but Sonya and Johnny is dead and confirmed that at least Jade (( liver ripped out)), Liu Kang (( Cooked)), Kung Lao (( neck snapped)), Smoke (( neck snapped)), Jax (( heel through the throat)), Kitana ((spirit sucked out, died in someones arms)) and Nightwolf (( ooga booga spirit kamikaze)) are pretty much dead for sure. The story mode was fantstic but I didn't like how many earth realm fighters were instantly killed off. (( FELLOW COMMENTERS DON"T READ THIS COMMENT UNLESS YOU WANT SLIGHT SPOILERS!))