Mortal Kombat 2
Reviewed by Dyson Turner
In my opinion Mortal Kombat II was the height and best of
all 4 MK's. Not only was it better than its bloody
predecessor MKI it looked better sounded better moved
better, this has everything going for it. You get a huge
list of characters to chose from, a new boss a new story.
All the old problems have been worked out and they have been
improved on right here. My first impression was wow,
everything was large the characters looked very realistic.
The whole game in my opinion had gotten a huge face-lift;
the characters were more detailed, they moved better. The
overall game was faster, fatalities looked more realistic
than ever. Not too many games like this come along, and this
changed the face once again of gaming.
Story 10/10
After the events of the first Mortal Kombat, Liu Kang was
crowned champion. Everything seemed normal, and the world
wasn't in dire threat of the evil Shang Tsung. Back in the
outer world where Tsung is from his dark master Shao Kahn
was getting ready for another tournament. And because of the
mistakes that Tsung made in the last tournament he would be
in this one as another warrior. Shao Kahn picked his own
right hand man, a friend and relative of Goro, another
Shokhan by the name of Kintaro. Shao Kahn himself would be
hosting the tournament. Shao Kahn was a lot smarter than
Tsung, because he also had some of his henchman in the
tournament. His henchmen are Reptile, Baraka, and Mileena
also Shang Tsung. So he would have at least 4 people to win
the tournament to help him take over the world, and open the
gates. There were more people against this though, because
they didn't want Shao Kahn to open the gates from the outer
world to earth.
Graphics 10/10
The graphics were truly great and way better than the
original. Since this game used live actors they used a
better camera that could capture more frames per second, so
the characters seemed more realistic when they moved. The
backgrounds looked great, they were all dark and had an
flare to them. The character size was quite a bit larger,
and the moves seemed more realistic. No head rips though and
we wont get one ever again in this series. This time we have
to settle for a lot of decapitations, and almost every
character have a form of a decapitation. The coolest
fatality there is would have to be Liu Kang's Dragon, where
he turns into a dragon and eats the upper half of your body.
Other good one is Shang Tsung soul stealer. The special
moves look cooler too; some still look a bit cheesy and
unrealistic. While most did make an improvement like
Scorpion's "Come Here!" spear.
Sound 9.0/10
Well sad part about the music is this, the masculine and
cooler male fatalities screams, have been replaced by
high-pitched male teenager just reaching puberty screams.
This just doesn't have the same effect as it did, it just
seems strange and unrealistic. The music during the opening
of the game sounds arcade perfect, and it really has that
bone chilling effect that the arcade had. The rest of the
game music did well too but it wasn't nearly as good as its
arcade and SNES counterparts. I was disappointed by some of
the music but most did well. As usual it was drowned out by
most of the sound effects which did surprisingly well I
might add. You had some realistic yells, when doing special
moves, and the only thing bringing down this was the
unrealistic fatality screams. Well the sound department did
do well despite some obvious errors, most of the music I did
like though. The darker music went with the overall
atmosphere of the game.
Game Play 10/10
This game is for one or two players. Some things are missing
in this version, which were present in the other one.
Noticeably the bonus round where you tested your strength
this is now gone and replace with nothing. Some new features
have been added to the game though, each character now has
at least 2 fatalities, one friendship, and babality. A
Friendship is where, the player does anon violent gesture
and showing a softer side by doing something cheesy like
giving the opponent a doll or like Johnny Cage giving them
his autograph. Then there's babality where you turn you
opponent into a baby. These two things have been added so
Midway can claim that this game isn't entirely violent. You
now have some of the old combos' from part 1 and some newer
better combos, which have been added to keep the game
fresher. Some of the newer ones include Sub Zeroes deadly
slip slide Combo, Scorpion's ultra cheap combo and many
more. Each character has at least two combos. These combos
are unlike the ones use seen in games like Killer Instinct
and MK3, there resemble the two in ones that played through
out the street fighter series, and other games. The
difficulty is adjustable, and their isn't any save or
password features.
Overall 10/10
I highly enjoyed this game and it's my favorite in the
entire series. Most people consider this the best one too,
even though hit was low on features and other things that
would have made it more enjoyable. It still was enjoyable
and it provided countless replays. The replay value was so
high because almost, no every character in this game had an
interesting story line and it was worth going through the
entire game and seeing each and every ending possible. The
fun factor was high because, you would want to see every
fatality, then you can decimate a friend with all of them.
The coolest way to do this is use Shang Tsung, and then pull
off their own fatality on them. This in my opinion will go
down in history as the best mortal Kombat ever, it had the
best everything. I feel sorry for its sequels, because all
the goodness was put into this one and none other could
compare. The only game even holding a torch to this one is
Mortal Kombat Trilogy and it isn't a "true" sequel. If you
really want a good Mortal Kombat experience then I would
advise you to pick up this game.
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