Mortal Kombat: Armageddon Comments by Luke Albiges

score is too high

ok...what tha!

not reading the review - as i normally do - and looking at your score makes me think you are wrong.

I thought it was pretty decent for an mk game in the 21st C. The quest game is kinda solid and the arcade mode is cool (the coolest it has been in mk's 3D history!).

Maybe it's the fact that I've only played this for like 3 hours - and I still wanna play more, which lends itself to being something decent. Noh?

Anyways - i shall inspect further (i'll read the review!)

The franchise is making new fans thanks to its quirky design. Remember, though the gameplay is stiff and gore standard in this day and age, the milkers of controversy of the early 1990's at Midway can still churn out playable titles with tons of stuff to unlock plus ridiculous amounts of ketchup to boot.

Ballacks

Didn't this have online?

Leg and arm breaks are awesome in this.

Are the special move commands still B, F, D, D, D, D, U, U, U, X, Y, B, A, A, B, X, U, U to do a sweep kick or have they finally made it more logical?

And are the fatalities still a Dance Dance Revolution-esque memory test or, again, are they something more intuative?

I always wanted to like Mortal Kombat but I despised the control system.

This is a shame, I had high hopes for this game. Though I do like the latest MK games, nothing will ever top MK3 to me. Classic.

To anyone who read this review

It's bullshit. Don't even listen to it. There's a reason this game got over 80% everywhere else because it actually is a good game. The best 3D Mortal Kombat in fact, with ease.

Too nice. The idea really appealed to me, after all - 64 characters is a lot. But there's so much not said in this review that it's driving me crazy.

Reader review submission button please.

It maybe the best 3D MK yet but MK has always lagged behind Soul Cailber, Tekken and Virtua Fighter so the 5/10 might not be wholly unjustified.

Besides, 5/10 isn't a bad score. It just means the game is average.

The 3D Mortals have all been poor and this is getting the scores that DA should have got. This is the best of the bunch but that don't make it a good 3D fighter. The best Mortal was Trilogy. Tons of characters and fast paced team based fighting. Some of my most memorable and enjoyable battles where on Trilogy (N64 version for the loading, or lack of) and this is from a SNK/Street Fighter nerd.

The last 3D MK game was dire, and yet had quite positive reviews in most places, so I'm prepared to trust EG that this one is also crap, regardless of what other reviewers might have to say.

No mention of created characters? How does the game play online? The review itself deserves a 5/10.

Still no reader review button? Just spent some time typing out a review... dying (no pun intended) to submit it...

I used to like first 3 games, and i still do!

Sort-of agree with the review, but the guy clearly isn't that interested in the MK back-story and its characters (which is a shame, as MK probably has a more interesting universe than the ones we see in the "I can't get laid so I look at virtual tits" Dead or Alive series).

Actually mentioning Dead or Alive as a 'good' example of a fighting game is a big flaw with the review too. I think many of us have seen how flawed the series is. At least Soul Calibur and Virtual Fighter are fair game though.

Personally I reckon Armageddon is more of a 6 or 7 out of 10, simply because it still offers something enjoyable and worth playing at the end of the day. However, it's only by the skin of its teeth that it manages to avoid being average.

I think the whole Kreate-A-Fatlity system is damn lazy, as Midway obviously couldn't be arsed to design a killer move for each of the characters. I think it's about time Midway focused on fewer fighters, so that they to balance and re-work the combat altogether. What Armageddon offers has some depth, but it really is a mish-mash of dial-combos, air combat, blocks and parry moves. A more fluid form of gameplay would be more beneficial for any future MK.

Another thing that is pretty poor are the endings for each of the characters. I mean, how long would it take to draw some nice pictures and add some voice-over (e.g. Deadly Alliance/Deception)? You have no incentive at all to complete the Arcade mode other than to gain some currency... it's a shame.
I personally would have ditched the sh*tty Mario Kart rip-off game, and instead focused the development time on CGI endings. Actually watching the introduction movie to Armageddon makes you cry all the more when you see Midway haven't bothered at all with character endings at all.

Basically: Midway, it's time to get real and re-invent Mortal Kombat like Capcom have for Resident Evil.

Sorry Kami, it should be working now

RARRRRHHHHH!

*gets to the submitting*

(Sorry, but since I played this game I've been dying to reader review it... ^^)

I suggest everyone gets mk deception, pretty much the same game but only £3 second hand on amazon.

At least that one still has signature fatalities.

/lights pipe

Eee lad, I remember when low rez pixilleted violence were contraversial. I helped a mate who was a reporter do a Ban This Sick Filth Now article on MK 1 for the local rag - sneaking into Codonas in Aberdeen, trying to sneak a photo of me playing a Scorpion fatality whilst looking suitably ready to go out and harpoon small children. Got thrown out by the bouncers when he went to the manager for a quote :D.

I payed £50 for MK 1, it was the greatest thing back then. Lasted me about 3 hours. Crappy bit of crap.

I'm not too sure about this game. It throws lots of modes at you, but doesn't change the gameplay. Got Deadly Alliance, Deception and Shaolin Monks, Deception is the best, yet Shaolin Monks feels quite flat compared to previous MK games but Deadly Alliance really changed MK into what it is today. I'm going to wait untill Armageddon is cheaper.

I think the score is fair, but i still think it was worth the buy.

I picked this up for a party last weekend and have thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a bit of guilty pleasure though, I know there are way better fighting games out there, but the 'kitsch appeal' of MK just does it for me. My fellow kombatants and I had a blast making ridiculously over-muscled facsimiles of ourselves and then kicking the crap out of each other.

This is definitely one of those games where you have to play it with friends. It's also much easier to learn the most other fighters, so even a novice can have fun after a few rounds, unlike Virtua Fighter, where newbies will get completely destroyed and rapidly become bored.