Mortal Kombat on Live Arcade News
Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
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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Comments: 1-24 of 24 in total
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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
23/10/06 @ 12:38
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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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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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DarthCheesiest
23/10/06 @ 15:30
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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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Foregone Reality
23/10/06 @ 16:28
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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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SeesThroughAll
24/10/06 @ 13:01
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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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