Mortal Kombat 4

I was interested to see what Midway could do with the series with it's venture into complete 3D. I had immensely enjoyed the past 3 games. When I finally got to play Mortal Kombat 4. I felt indifferent about it at first. The full 3D aspect was different. The graphics weren't all they could be for a PS1 game in my opinion.

The new character additions were average to bad. Some old characters look alright for their first time in 3D. Some of the fatalities are redone for the full 3D world. Which is cool. There are also stage fatalities in this game. Which hasn't been seen since MK2 by this time. They are done nicely. Babalities, Animalities, Brutalities, and Frienships are all taken away in this game.

Mortal Kombat 4 also introduced weapons. I was never a big fan of weapons in Mortal Kombat 4. As they are a optional in the game. Which eventually leads to them being a throw away in my opinion. The best action is with the characters moves and hand to hand combat.

My biggest complaints about this game is the end boss Shinnok. First off he has one of the most annoying voices in the game. He's very easy to face and his fatalities are a bit plain maybe even comical. He's one of the worst bosses of the MK series.

Voice acting has never been MK's strong point, but the ending FMV's are marred by bad voice acting. Choppy and sometimes stiff looking movements. I can see why they did and eventually stuck with the still picture endings. All in all it's a decent MK game. Can't really call it bad, but it could've been a lot better.

"Mortal Kombat 4" takes the series into the world of 3d-fighters, and is it able to kick its opponents? Not a chance. The world of 3d-fighters is dominated by series such as "Tekken" and "Virtua Fighter", and the latest MK-game isn`t up to scratch. The 3d visuals found here are rough, but the pace of the game is therefore very fast, but it is packed with a cartoony feeling and badly balanced gameplay. I hoped that this series could`ve died after the superb "Mortal Kombat Trilogy", but I was wrong. Don`t buy these games anymore, and perhaps the developers will stop making them. Stick to "Mortal Kombat Trilogy".

5,5/10

I'm glad the Mortal Kombat series took a chance in the 3-D world. "Tekken" and "Street Fighter Alpha" ruled the fighting video games world at the time so it was about time for Mortal Kombat to appear into scene.

The result was excellent. It's one of the most beautiful yet dark fighting games ever created. It continued with the addictive kombo system of part III plus it had spectacular, dark graphics, an amazing sound mixed with creepy sounds and haunting tunes (like when Sub-Zero performs his classic fatality).

Only the most important characters survived MK III. But the new additions are excellent. Specially Quan Chi and Shinnok.

This is overall a fantastic video game that should please fans of the MK series. Expect a whole creepy atmosphere in 3D.

I don't know why fans didn't like it. It's fun, has a great plot, amazing graphics, and the violence factor won't let you down.

A new classic.

This game is definitely an improvement of MK Trilogies. The new fatalities are great. Except they should have kept animalities, those were cool. Thank god they got rid of brutalities though, those sucked, and so did the comedy in the last game. And it's too bad that some of the warriors are gone. Like a lot of the ninjas and female fighters, the were very much needed. But the new 3-d stages are great.

Here is "Mortal Kombat 4," the first game in the legendary martial arts series about fighters competing in an otherworldly martial arts tournament in order to save the world to be in full 3D. That's right. Full, 3D arena combat, which is a formula that would carry on well into later games in the series. But somehow the formula doesn't work. Not sure, maybe it's the graphics or flawed combo system. Or it could be the fact that it came out in 1997, the same year as the horrendous "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation." The late 1990s were not very friendly to "Mortal Kombat," even though the first "Mortal Kombat" movie in 1995 rocked, and to this day probably remains the greatest video game-to-movie translation yet. I don't know. But it's still a great opportunity to battle friends to the death in gruesome martial arts combat.

7/10