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Released early, by the look of it.

Midway's Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 has shown up on Xbox Live Arcade over the weekend, giving you the chance to hook up with your friends and then rip their spinal chords out for kicks (or spasms).

Featuring 22 fighters, the usual array of leaderboards and achievements, and a new Challenger Versus Mode, which allows you and three friends to play a "winner-stays-on" style tournament, UMK3 costs 800 Microsoft points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.30).

Obviously there's a trial version available too, as with all Live Arcade games, and we'll be bringing you a review just as soon as we can prise out beat-'em-up loving correspondents away from Tekken: Dark Resurrection for long enough.

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morriss #1 5 years ago

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Hah! Told you!!1
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Der_tolle_Emil #2 5 years ago

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Too bad Mortal Kombat really sucks. I never liked that game.
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EmiliasHorse #3 5 years ago

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Can we have SWOS and Castlevania early instead?
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OnlyMe #4 5 years ago

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That said, UMK was rather good actually. I found it better than Street Fighter 2. Not sure if I'll buy it, but it was still good fun.
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IMCO #5 5 years ago

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MK 3 was great !
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ChrisOTR #6 5 years ago

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Never understood the attraction of the series. Hope this pleases other people though!
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Kami #7 5 years ago

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Err... spinal cHords? Musical muscles?

I love minor typos.
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Zuiyo #8 5 years ago

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Fatality.
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peterfll #9 5 years ago

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I have this on a Midways Classic collection along with 21 other games. I paid �14.99 for the whole lot. So �6.80 fo this alone? Hmmm....
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Darkedge #10 5 years ago

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can we have some more ORIGINAL GAMES PLEASE.
Sick of retrio gaming - the grass wasn't greener ffs that just the rose tinited specs
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Ikari2001 #11 5 years ago

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I'd have to agree, I'd like some original titles now... of all the retro titles they've released I've only bought doom... SF and MK were slightly tempting... but the rest have held no interest for me... I think the only only other retro game I'm after will be SWOS ...
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sharpfish #12 5 years ago

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Not much good. Really. Apart from the usual control pad issues with these ports, things really look bad. Whereas older games look retro in a simplistic good way, these 90's games just look like they were trying to hard and are now just nostalgic curiosities rather than gameplay addled joys.

As an old gamer, and as much as I used to moan about the state of games these days - this really puts things in perspective. I'll take Dead Rising and RR6 (yes, even the flawed but brilliantly fun RR6) over this. Certainly not worth any money except to hardcore fans of MK who must own it.
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numptyboymatt #13 5 years ago

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Someone put me out of my misery and tell me if this is Mega-Drive era or early PS1 era? I had the first one back on the Mega Drive and then totally lost interest in the series.
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neuroniky #14 5 years ago

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COME HERE!
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Darren #15 5 years ago

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Good conversion, perhaps a little expensive at 800 points though and the Xbox 360's D-pad is far from ideal for this kind of game.

I wish Microsoft would add a Scanlines option for us HD LCD TV users though to simulate how the games used to look as it tends to make them look better as I've found out with PC emulators.
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Skeletor #16 5 years ago

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Scanlines option would be nice indeed! Oldschool stuff like UMK3 looks way better with scanlines.

Edited by 1 at 23/10/06 @ 15:37
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DarthCheesiest #17 5 years ago

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I always thought Mortal Kombat was cheap, crap and American, but still bought it thinking that it would be a laugh playing online. I didn't try the demo because I assumed I knew what I was getting. Unfortunately you can't remap the buttons, which makes it pretty useless with my joystick.

I want my money back.
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coojam #18 5 years ago

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lol neuroniky, it's "Get over here!"
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Foregone Reality #19 5 years ago

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I would have preferred if they used the Ninja Skins from MK2 as opposed to the horrible stances/outfits worn by them in UMK3.

Classic Sub Zero looks like a gimp in it.
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vegard #20 5 years ago

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at least you can stretch this to widescreen. as far as i remember that was not the case for SF2
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SeesThroughAll #21 5 years ago

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lol neuroniky, it's "Get over here!"

Actually, he says both.
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Cider-X #22 5 years ago

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Appears to be a faithful port/emulator complete with the wonky AI. The 360 controller is very poor at these fighting games with its horrible d-pad. Anyway this
will be the only arcade game I will get 200 Gamerscore in.
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pjmaybe #23 5 years ago

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Still one of the worst fighting games EVER imho. The only way they could go one worse would be to re-release Pit Fighter for XBLA.

Peej
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SeesThroughAll #24 5 years ago

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The only way they could go one worse would be to re-release Pit Fighter for XBLA.

Don't give them ideas....
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