Though I did find the addition of weapons a bit odd, and maybe reactionary to the success of the Soul Calibur series, I really can't say that I had any issues with Deception in the grand scheme of things. I just know that it has a similar feel to me as DOA: Hardcore, which is something I can deal with. In fact, rumor has it that it's possibly the best 3D Mortal Kombat title to date. The first disc houses the standard version of Deception, the better of the two Mortal Kombat titles we'll be discussing today. Its outer cardboard box opens like a book and houses two DVD cases. Mortal Kombat: Deception's Premium Pack is actually a pretty cool package. You see strangely, the bonus discs and extra content actually seems to be a much bigger gift to fans of the series than either game can rightly claim to be. And although I'm not all that into Mortal Kombat: Deception or Mortal Kombat: Armageddon on the PS2, I am a bit of a fan of the premium editions released for each. Stuff that makes your collection glow a little brighter. Now I don't mean like a demo disc tacked on and call it a day. And what I am is a total sucker for bonus discs. I am what I am.Īnd that brings me to another point. I'm more prone to enjoy a 3D fighting game if it never originated in the 2D realm. I'm just not a big fan of 3D fighters, so any transition that a classic 2D game makes to 3D is going to feel suspect to me. Or more precisely - when the fourth game came out, I just stopped caring. But sometime around the fourth, I just stopped caring. Enough so that I can still revisit those with no reservations. In fact the second and third entries in the series actually turned out rather good.

But hey, I'm not going to ask for the hours spent enjoying it back. Hindsight actually tells me that Mortal Kombat was a pretty lousy game. Of course I was also fourteen years old at the time, so any game that came with a warning to parents and a 'blood code' was going to be great in my book.

I was a big fan of the original Mortal Kombat on the Genesis. And though I hate it when a game re-uses a title, rather than just being a proper sequel or spin-off, I have to say that everything I've heard about this new reboot of the series is rather exciting. There's a lot of talk right now about the new PS3 release of Mortal Kombat. Posted under PlayStation 2, Mortal Kombat Posted on May 3rd 2011 at 05:22:07 AM by ( noiseredux)

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