All here as you remember them, all in their bone-crushing glory. Perfect your combinations and finishing moves (or friendships, if you prefer!) with the marquee titles of MORTAL KOMBAT™, MORTAL KOMBAT II™, and ULTIMATE MK 3™. Now, Arcade1Up celebrates 30 years of MORTAL KOMBAT ™, with this ultimate legacy edition home arcade machine. With it's over the top darkly humorous gameplay and finishing moves, MORTAL KOMBAT™ became an instant franchise with iconic characters and enduring catchphrases. Their monsters-wreaking-havoc title RAMPAGE™ was a giant early hit, and then leaps in live action digitizing technology led to MORTAL KOMBAT™, recognized as one of the most important titles in video game history. Evolving from its 1958 beginnings as an amusement game manufacturer, Midway produced some of the hottest arcade games of the ‘80s and ‘90s, that have since been adapted into film, television, and much more. Let’s talk about the legend that is Midway. They play great, look great, and are instant conversation pieces. Providing authentic arcade experiences in an easily assembled standup cabinet design, Arcade1Up game machines are absolute must-haves for home arcades, family game rooms, man caves, or a welcome distraction in the office. In addition to online play, we would have loved to see the option to reconfigure your controls, a practice mode and a $5 price tag.“GET OVER HERE!” for this ULTIMATE MORTAL KOMBAT™ home arcade game machine from Arcade1Up! Yes, it is the absolute ultimate in Midway retrogaming, featuring an incredible line up of game titles. As with most of the classic games on Live Arcade, longtime fans will probably love this game and the online play. If you still have it, you would be better suited whipping out the old Sega Genesis. With a D-Pad as accurate as Dick Cheney with a shotgun and an analog stick better suited for Halo, performing the tap-tap special moves proves exceedingly difficult. The final gripe is the 360 controller itself. For the politically correct, you do have the option of turning off blood and violence, although I have no idea what turning off violence does since you can still roundhouse-kick an opponent in the face, and spray his blood across the screen. If any fighter needs a practice mode, it's UMK3, thanks to the hundreds of combos waiting to be discovered and mastered.
Not only does the game not come with a practice mode (perfect for, um, perfecting combos and special moves), but there are no control options and not even a move list (quickly remedied with a simple Google search). Other than a healthy dose of achievements, things that should have come with this $10 game are sorely missed, and make you question the value. The graphics and sound are identical, although you do have the option to stretch the dimensions of the game into widescreen. This is better than slowdown that ruins the timing of combos and special moves, and a necessary evil, I suppose. Lag is an issue, though most of the time the game doesn't slow down instead, it pauses for a second or two, interrupting the flow of the match.
Multiplayer and Xbox Live is where this game really shines as your friends don't cheat, and all those hours of memorizing move lists and fatalities finally pays off. The 360 does add a bit, most notable online play and leaderboards. This has been a problem for, like, ever with Mortal Kombat.
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