IGN: Mortal Kombat Review

Mortal Kombat combines the novelty of extreme violence with a great fighting engine. My favorite moments with Mortal Kombat were always playing against a friend (Gamespy’s Ryan Scott is a beast), but I was disgusted by how unbalanced some of the single-player challenges are.

Even still, Mortal Kombat is a great game. It’s not the most polished fighter out there, but it has a distinct flavor and it’ll be a hit at gamer get-togethers.

[ToastyMcNibbles]

An 8? Fair score I guess. Been playing it for the past 2 hours its really amazing. I love the way the story mode was done.

[Schism20]

The graphics IMO are really good. Especially when youre fighting it looks superb. Overall this is an awesome fighting game much better than MVC3. O yea and did I mention this game is fun as hell!!

[Scyrus]

game is not better than mvc3 lmao

ontop of that the games animation SUCK bad, watch a video of dead or alive 4 ( a 5 year old game) and compare the animations to MK. makes MK look like a 10 year old game.

the gameplay itself is deeper than other MK's but the lack of fluidity stop it from being any fun to me.

also the gameplay just isnt that good. the X-rays get repetitive, wish they could be skipped and once u see all the fatalities the game is done IMO

[Acquiescence]

but daaaamn, talk about standing in the shadow of a far superior game at the time of release.

[gorebago]

They both have their place but I have my eyes set on Portal at least immediately. Next week def this game I liked the demo.

[Graphics]

Wow.. idk how MVC3 or SF4 and SSF4 gets rated higher than MK9.. This game has an actual story mode, then it also has character endings for each character in arcade mode, has a bunch of mini games like test your might, luck, strength, a challenge tower with 300 cool and different challenges that ranges from fighting to mini-games, a lot of collectibles like alternate costumes, tag team fighting and a cool online lobby and better graphics than SSF4 which got higher... SSF4 and MVC3 all with way less stuff gets better rating... wtf?

[Daver]

lol that is what I was thinking too

[Scyrus]

cuz MVC3 is actually fun and has different characters, not 500 scorpion subzero rip offs.....tho sf has tons of ryu and kens lol.

blazblue continuum shift destroys mk tho, BB is the king of 2d fighters this gen, Imo

[TrevorPhillips]

IGN sucks at reviewing game, an 8...seriously. Heck GT gave the game a great score of 9.4. IGN u failed.

[guigsy]

How does giving the game a better score make it a better review?

[Dingodile]

Lasting Appeal : 8.5 ?!!!

[Dsnyder]

Fighting games dont really have lasting appeal. You play as each character given to you then the game gets old after you repeat that a few times. Id say the score is generous in the lasting appeal area but they should have given a slightly higher graphics score.

[Dingodile]

a complete story mode + tower challenge + lots of modes like test your might,sight,... + loads of artworks & other unlockables should receive +9 IMO !

[Giru017]

wow, if this guy had problems with the story mode 2v1 fights or some of the bosses, I wonder how he'd fare against any of the delicious SNK bosses (98/02 Rugal, Orochi, Goenitz, Igniz, Krizalid, Zero, Geese Howard, Mizuki, etc...) SNK boss syndrome FTW!

Strange that with Alpha 3's Shin Bison, SF3's Gill *shudder*, SSF4's Boss Seth, Tekkens Jinpachi, BlazBlue's Nu-13/Unlimited Hazama, Guilty Gear's Justice, Boss I-No/Dizzy or Soul Calibur's Inferno boss difficulty had never been a complaint and reason to lower a score... go figure. *rolls eyes*

[Legionaire2005]

Even though 8 is still a good score, but why did they even score it lower than Marvel Vs. Capcom 3? It has more modes, its more polish, better online( with spectator mode), deeper moves and combo system, characters are more balance, and each character moves are different and not the same like many fighters in the past. Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 is like a 7.0 in comparison to this. Well at least Gametrailers gave it a 9.4 better review than this.

[I_killed_TheMart]

IT IS NOT a 9.5 GAME, it's not... it's a great game but far from that score... specially the ps3 version, it seems faded. but idono, how are u guys liking the online? is it any good?

[undercovrr]

How do you know it is not a 9.5 game if you haven't played it? And ps3 version looks identical to 360 version. I played ps3 version and saw 360 version at my buddy's house.

I personally love the game, and i think ign's complaints are ridiculously stupid - like WTH is wrong with the art style, it looks perfectly fine to me. And just because the reviewer got his ass handed to him in Sp doesn't mean SP is unbalanced. Also, this game is one of the few fighting games that tries to have a story that makes sense and is actually entertaining.

Watch gametrailer's review for a more accurate description of this game.

[I_killed_TheMart]

Dumbass i bought it in the morning yesterday. So i would know

[I_killed_TheMart]

and no undercover* u spelt ur name wrong...anyways id rather go with gamespot's review rather then anyones anyday... it's a true 8.5 game...:)

[undercovrr]

How would you know how the version looks like if you have nothing to compare it with. And yes I bought it too...

Oh well, fools will be fools.

Oh and you spelled 'spelt' wrong because that's not a word. Next time try to spell right before criticizing somebody else :)

[I_killed_TheMart]

At least i'm not dumb enough to make an error in my name. Fag