Ultimate Mortal Kombat - Nintendo DS (2007)
Status - played a few hours What the back of the box says - “ Play two Mortal Kombat Classics Anywhere! ” What I say - “Play one Mortal Kombat Klassic Anywhere!” Genre - Fighting / Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo rip off Rage quitting / stress levels - Medium/low Price paid - AUD 15 (Ballina Pawn Shop) Metacritic - 73 out of 100 Mortal Kombat was my everything back in the day. Wait - just the first two games. By the time the third came out - I think I was more into 3D fighting games a la Tekken and Virtua Fighter which were on point back then. As you probably know - the game mechanics had been altered to include a ‘Run/Combo’ mechanic this speed up the gameplay but you were rewarded for memorisation of moves rather than skill. I could never get into this as much than the first two games, which were a bit more easier to get into. I have fonder memories of UMK3 (playing it at a US arcade on holidays, bigger cast including the return of favourite Scorpion) but it is still