1UP: The graphics of the Mortal Kombat Vita port bloody stink

1UP writes: When NetherRealm announced that they were porting their new Mortal Kombat to the Vita, with all of the content of the console versions, I was very excited. I was expecting something amazing, and at least on par with Capcom's impressive Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 port. Now that I have the game, this is most certainly not the case. Leading up to the release of the Vita version I'd heard some distressing rumbles about the graphics of this port. People carefully dissecting trailers, or talking about first hand accounts were mentioning that the game didn't look too hot. I had hoped that if true this was all talk about work in progress builds, and issues that could be ironed out. Things would not work out as I hoped.

[GamingPerson]

hmm.. looks great to me.
http://n4g.com/news/989957/...

[Homer1421]

Off screen, actually playing it will result in everybody realising how terrible the visuals are Street Fighter X Tekken and Marvel VS Capcom loook fantastic and all also run at 60FPS

[Winter47th]

I can't believe how horrible this looks like! I was actually looks this.

[icecoldfire]

maybe an upcoming update will fix this terribly crappy character model textures and hopefully and the EXCLUSIVE costumes for the vita comes to the consoles

[icecoldfire]

Vita has 512mb RAM and considering the hardware of the Vita, it will obviously look like this.

[units]

Actual ingame

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[RedDead]

Very lazy port
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7...
http://www.1up.com/media?id...

Due to the Vita's hardware, there was always going to be a quality drop, but due to the screen size, that quality drop should be minimal at the worst. This is just dreadful porting, you could mistake uncharted for it's console versions if you didn't look closely enough. This is like...a DS game in comparison

[mushroomwig]

Wow, that incredibly shameful.

[jronj]

It seems to be the consensus that the graphics are not up to vita's potential but it's still getting great reviews. My copy is in the mail so I won't know till tomorrow :(

[Jio]

60FPS with okay graphics, or 30FPS with great graphics? I'm fine with either, but the 60FPS is nice.

[--Onilink--]

the thing is, the vita can do 60fps with great graphics, and those are not even OK graphics when we know what the vita can do, and its not especially a game that should put much stress on the system

[Baka-akaB]

I've yet to see how there was a need to downgrade it so much actually . Regardless of non related issues people got with UMvC3 , it looks like a near mint port of the ps3/360 game at 60 fps , mostly the background suffered in the vita version .

What with pointing out 60 fps anyway ? We dont have under 60 fps fighting games ( except ssf4 on 3ds WITH 3d activated , and it was a launch title)

The game is still great for those that care , but you guys are too quick to defend it , just because it's Mortal Kombat . Anything else pulling that would usually get crucified here

[Jio]

I guess it's just the unreal engine 3

[chasegarcia]

I agree with 1up. I played the game @pax.

[evercast]

Been playing it this morning. The game is sadly pretty bad looking for a vita game, but the gameplay and having so much content makes it up for me. 2 challenge towers, story, arcade, and infrastructure and ad hoc multiplayer. The extra DLC character and skins are just a plus too. Hopefully the graphics don't hold people back from buying this game.

[kevnb]

id rather have the higher framerate, graphics look good enough to me.

[NastyLeftHook0]

glad i got the ps3 version, but im still getting it for vita, still looks great to me.

[momthemeatloaf]

This headline is a trolls dream

[smashcrashbash]

Yeah, I can't wait for someone to bring the 3DS into this Oh sorry someone already did. How predictable

[cmpunk53]

Although it looks bad compare to the console version but look who's getting good reviews. Some sites gave the vita version a much higher score based on everything except graphics.

[kevnb]

who cares about that? Although if I had a vita I would get mortal kombat, its a perfect game for the platform. Im also glad they kept short loading times and 60 fps over making it look nice in screen shots.
@cmpunk53 gamers who rely on gamerankings or metacritic are fools and in the minority.

[cmpunk53]

Gamers that rely too much on site like gamerankings and metacritic before they buy their games cares about that. Anyway this is really a good sign and the right way to port a console game on a handheld device besides, the graphics is not that bad.. only a troll would say otherwise.

[MasterCornholio]

Yep because what matters most is the gameplay which is intact in the VITA version also the extra content and exclusive features add a ton of value to this game.

XperiaRay

[cmpunk53]

I totally agree with you. Netherealm actually had the option to gave it an almost the same of it's console version but opted for a 60fps rather that a 30fps only and I think it is a good decision.

[--Onilink--]

god damm that looks awful, compared to what the Vita can do, this is unnaceptable. Heck there are a few 3DS games that look better than this

[LeShin]

lol sorry man, but I can't agree with you until I see a 3DS version of this :-)

[--Onilink--]

well Street Fighter 4 3DS doesnt look that worse compared to this. And the graphical quality of Resident Evil Revelations, Kid Icarus Uprising, Metal Gear Solid 3, Kingdom Hearts 3D and Super Mario 3D Land is way above this game. And those are where there are more things going on on the screen, AI to deal with, etc.

I dont mean the comparison to the 3DS in a bad way for the 3DS or the VITA in general. Im perfectly happy with the graphics on the 3DS, but i also know that the Vita can do even better, so when a Vita game comes along with worse graphics than a 3DS game, it better have a damm good reason

[mttrackmaster38]

I doubt they couldn't get the game to look decent and at least run at 40-50 fps. I just can't play a game knowing how much vastly better it looks on a different platform. This isn't passable, not even for a handheld game. It is......UGLY.

[mshope10]

Yep gameplay over graphics!wow it's hypocrite hour on N4g!I guess if the gameplay is good but the graphics are bad on a Sony console the game is still good!but if this happens on any other system, ok or bad graphics make a bad game!

[mshope10]

Oh I'm not say vita or mortal kombat are bad in any way I'm just making a point.

[specialguest]

Damn! I've never seen the game in person, but this is clearly bad. Reminds me of N64 graphics.

[blackbirdi]

looks like a psp to me

[Denethor_II]

PSP has a lot better graphics that this shite.

[Sithlord-Gamble]

Who gives a f***!

I have the game, it plays tight & smooth, good load times and added extras.
If ur going to critisize the game solely based on graphics then youre the one missing out.

Besides, u can talk about the graphics vs the other fighting games, but MK still also includes the animated backgrounds too just like the console. Did the other fighting games ur comparing do this? No, i dont think they did.

Gaming isnt just about graphics.
Howabout u just shut ur pie hole and enjoy a great fighting game!

Jeez.

[Hicken]

Because then they wouldn't have anything to complain about. It may be lamentable that the game's graphics don't live up to what they could have been, but to disregard what is otherwise a spot-on and extra-content-heavy offering is pretty pathetic.

[--Onilink--]

he is not critizing the game based solely on the graphics, he is critizing the graphics of the game, its a completely diferent concept...

[Oldman100]

Didn't they have to make custom tweaks to the Unreal Engine in order to get it looking and running well at 60fps on consoles? They probably realized that putting all that time and effort optimizing and bringing the visuals up to par wasn't worth it.

[Skateboard]

I'm fine with the graphics cause there is soooo much in this game, but some people always like to point out the negative and say "remember when you did it", I don't even know you man.

[Skateboard]

double post

[GynGa]

It doesn't look ugly, but they probably could have done a better job though. Still I'm going to pick this game to fulfill my need for fighting game instead of UMvC3 or BlazBlue. Mortal Kombat is Mortal Kombat after all...

[mr_badhand]

That's going to be Vita's main problem. Everyone will expect ps3 quality graphics.
That's why you'll see a lot more for the 3DS.

Of course this is my opinion...or is it...

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