Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero

I really tried to like this game because I'm a hard core, die hard fan of anything related to MORTAL KOMBAT.

The concept is great and so is the game play because the game has unique action sequences that will make you remember about the controls of MK and MK II. I truly enjoyed the fighting techniques because MK game-play have always been attractive for avid action and fighting games. The combo system is similar to MK III so you can't go wrong with the game-play.

I always thought I was playing a Chinese action movie. The scenarios are just great; dark, stylish, great atmosphere but best of all, a feeling of uncertainty when the evil characters appear.

The graphics are truly great! The digital graphics combined with 2D and 3D in some cases is really attractive and will make you enjoy the hard and difficult scenarios and enemies.

The sound is also pretty cool with martial arts music and some intense classical MK sounds.

My advice is, get this game but only if you are a fan of the MK games. Otherwise, play it with low expectations because if you are not into the world of MK, you will likely have a hard time trying to like it.

The "Mortal Kombat"-series used to be great, but the series has gone straight down the toilet, thanks to the poor quality of the newer games, games like "Mortal Kombat Mythologies"(MKM) MKM is a platform game with lame visuals and a very poor control system, the video-clips in the playstation-version were okay, but it is the gameplay that counts, and there isn`t a lot of gameplay to be found in this game. Avoid it!

2/10

This game has an excellent story line, and I don't mind the retro 2-D fighting style. However, this game is ruined by terrible controls. The pressing a button to change directions is annoying, but I could live with that with practice. The fighting was choppy, but even that is forgivable for me, for I am accustomed to old games like the original Mortal Kombat, an old favorite of mine.

I cannot, however, get over the extreme difficulty of jumping from ledges. He jumps merely by pressing up on the control pad, and that is so easy to do accidentally. I have fallen to my death too many times when I either had no intention of jumping or was unable to jump when I needed to. Unfortunately, jumping from ledges is nearly half the darn game. So, half of it is ruined. With the easy difficulty, I was able to have a lot of lives, I think something like 12, plus 6 continues I believe it was.

It's a real shame it is. So much thought put into a brilliant story line, pretty good music and sound, tough, well designed enemies, like the Air elemental guard. But it is all ruined by the difficulty of the controls, especially in the air level. Nearly the entire air level was jumping from ledges and such. I, however, was so impressed by the potential of this game that I would recommend they try again. Make a new version for Nintendo Game Cube perhaps and work out the flaws. Maybe even switch to a 3-d fighting style. Oh, and am I the only one who thinks this would make a great movie? So, I gave it 4 out of 10. I got some enjoyment out of it, getting a far as when Sub-Zero meets Raiden and goes to the Nether region (or whatever it was). Unfortunately, you can't go farther on the easy difficulty, and you can't get that far on the harder difficulties because you don't have enough lives to keep falling to your death over and over and over. Sub-Zero's echoing yell is tattooed to my brain.

This is what happens when you sacrifice gameplay for license. The graphics were dated and choppy, the control scheme was contrived and most of all it didn't seem all done. It just was wrapped up and shipped to stores so that one unlucky fool could buy it. Stick to Mortal Kombat 4 or the new Special Forces game coming up!

It's sad we didn't get any other mythologies of the other characters, it would have been interesting to see everyone's story.

Sub zero is a favorite character of mine and it's cool they got John Turk to play the part as he is sub zero from MKIII. And the cut scenes are equally good as mortal kombat quest series.

As a gameplay it wasn't good but as a story it is better, I prefer to watch it on long play than actual playing it.