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Midway's Mortal Kombat series
has been around longer than the Street Fighter
series. The first version of MK came out in 1992,
and it was a big hit. But it also started the big
arguement about blood and gore in videogames. The
SNES version took away the blood cheat in their
version, but in the Genesis version, the blood
cheat was still found. No wonder the Genesis
version outsold the SNES version. At the time MK
I came out, I was a cute little 7 year old in the
summer of 1992. I was also a boy who watched too
much tv, and had really bad nightmares. Anyway, I
bought the game and I played it for probably 10
hours each day. I didn't know much about the
blood cheats until the next year, when one of my
friends gave me the code.
It really didn't make a big
difference, the gameplay was still the same,
except with a little blood spilling out. I
prefered playing with the blood, because it
looked pretty cool. In 1993 also saw the release
of MK II, probably the most successful out of all
the MK games. Two years later, MK III came out,
and that was also considered very successful, but
I have yet to play the game. Next year, MK
Trilogy came, it really didn't see much of the
success, I haven't played this game either. Next
year, saw the release of MK IV, it sold, but not
very well. It came out for the Playstation, and
it was actually the first time I saw a 3D
fighting game. It looked pretty cool, well now
comes MK Gold for the Dreamcast. And yes, I have
played this game, why else would I be righting
this review?
The whole Mortal Kombat series
has had everything from movies (Mortal Kombat,
Mortal Kombat II: Annilation), a tv series,
action figures, comics, and of course videogames.
The tv series still continues, MK II:
Annilahation was probably the last movie, the
action figures and comics stopped back around
1995, and MK Gold will be last MK game. Well what
about Mortal Kombat: Special Forces? Well, that
game got cancelled after producer Ed Boom left
Midway.
Why am I doing this review for?
Oh, yeah, MK Gold, that's right, back to the
game. MK Gold is an arcade perfect version of MK
IV with extra fighters, and stages. Well,
actually, MK Gold is exactly the same thing as MK
IV, but with upgraded graphics, added fighters
and stages, and some changes in the fighting
system.
First of all, all I have to say
is this is probably the worst of all the MK
games. Its just so boring, this game should been
put to rest long time ago. There are 3 playable
modes, Arcade, Endurance, and Team. There is
also, an Options mode, and a Cheats mode, which
can only be opened by entering the cheat.
Mortal Kombat Gold usually
stays at 60 frames per second, and time to time
it will dip to 30 frames per second. In the game,
there are 13 3D backgrounds, and 20 fighters,
some from MK II.
When I was playing the game, I
got really bored very quickly, I don't know why I
rented this game. I could've rented Rippin'Riders
and given you a review for that game. Gameplay is
very boring, it really doesn't give you the
action like other fighting games. I've played
Soul Calibur on the arcades, and it gives you a
sense of excitement. Power Stone gives you the
excitement with the interactive 3D worlds. Marvel
vs. Capcom gives you the excitement with the
hyper comboes, and fast paced fighting. But with
Mortal Kombat Gold, there's no sense of
excitement, fast paced action, or interactive
worlds. Also, this game is very hard, the
character just come after you as soon as the
announcer says fight.
Overall, I consider this the
worst game on the Dreamcast, probably on the
worst games I ever played. Don't spend a penny
playing this game on arcades or Dreamcast, don't
even rent this game. There are far more better
games out there, like Soul Calibur or Power
Stone, or even the upcoming Dead or Alive 2. But
if you liked MK IV, still don't go for this game,
its exactly the same thing. Rent or Buy Virtua
Fighter 3: Team Battle, now that is a good
fighting game.
Graphics: 5
Sound: 5.5
Control: 6
Gameplay: 2
Overall: 18.5 |
Mortal
Kombat Gold
Publisher:
Midway
Developer:
Eurocom
# of players: 2
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