Mortal Kombat

A Saturday morning staple in any early-90s household. This was my introduction to fighting games and I've never forgotten it. One of my favorites to this day! So innovative; I loved the button combos and the gore!

Mortal Kombat is one of the biggest video game series to ever come around.

Also Mortal Kombat is one of the most controversial video games for it feature of finishing moves known as Fatalities.

The game feature seven characters to fight with. Sub-Zero Liu Kang, Raiden, Kano, Scorpion, Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade. My favorite Mortal Kombat characters are Sonya Blade and Sub-Zero

The game's main antagonist is Shang Tsung. The game feature a well crafted story line and help created some of the best characters of any video game. Each one has their own It factor that make them fan favorites.

The Graphics of the game were using live action actors to help create the moment of the characters and the results make you wonder how they did.

The controls depends on what system you are playing it on will give you a run for your money as this game needs you to be at your best because it will bring you down hard.

It took a few times to get use to the way the game play works but the game play is good enough to share with friends because fighting games are about having someone extra to play against however the game isn't easy at all you have to be ready for whatever the game has in store it is not a easy game at all.

Mortal Kombat remains a fan favorite even today so do yourself a favor and play this game.

I give Mortal Kombat an 7 out of 10

"Mortal Kombat"("MK") and "Street Fighter"("SF") were the two biggest games on the arena of fighting-games back in the early 1990`s. Most people preferred the SF-series, but I always preferred MK because of the graphics, gameplay and not to mention the extreme violence. The first MK remains playable today and a classic, but it has been bettered by superb sequels.

8/10

Mortal Kombat was released at a time in which every other fighting video game was an utter rip off of Street Fighter 2. Street Fighter 2 for a long time remained the only fighting game worth having a tournament for. But then in 1992, Mortal Kombat was released. By today's standards the game lacks depth, but back then it was completely original and fresh. Never before have we seen a fighting game with such creative attacks, a block button, and balance from the fact that all characters had the exact same set of normal attacks.

I'm sure anybody who plays video games remembers the controversy that Mortal Kombat started. It was a shame that the game was so violent, because it completely distracted from what made Mortal Kombat good. There were plenty of players who liked the game because it more adult, but there were a large number of tournament players who actually enjoyed the challenge.

Today, here in the USA great games like Guilty Gear XX#R do not have an official American arcade release. Fighting games simply didn't take off too well in this country.

This game is very important to the evolution of video games and it has its spot in gaming history. Mortal Kombat is known for violence and this game was the most violent game back in the day. These days this game has aged pretty bad though.

The graphics still look good if you are playing the arcade version. The characters are extremely big though and take up a lot of space on the screen. They are very detailed.

The negative thing is that the speed is very slow, the fighting is very clunky, the music is annoying, the grunts are also very annoying, and fatalities are kinda difficult to perform because you have a very short amount of time to do them.

Anyways, maybe back in the day it would had been a 9/10 but now this game is a 6/10 at best.