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GameSpot Reviews Ultimate Mortal Kombat: "The Best Portable MK Game to Date"

GameSpot writes:
"Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 was the last 2D game in the MK series and, by far, the fastest of the bunch. It added a run button that the previous games didn't have, amped up the combo system, and added a lot of interesting new characters, all while maintaining the game's digital, photographic look. The finishing moves got more ridiculous, too, with animalities--where your fighter turns into some kind of animal and does something to your opponent--joining the regular fatalities, babalities, and friendships. But even the regular fatalities became crazier. For example, Liu Kang can make an MK2 arcade machine drop out of the sky to crush his victim. It wasn't as serious as the Mortal Kombat games that came before it, and it's certainly not as serious as the darker set of MK games that appeared on the previous generation of consoles. It's goofy, but it's also one of the better 2D fighters from its era. It controls just fine on the DS, and it's still a lot of fun."

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MK_Red6006d ago

MK3 is definitly my fave 2D MK but gameplay wise, I prefer MK2. My fave fatalty the vertical slice by Kung Lao's hat is also from MK2 but aside from those, MK3 and UMK3 were everything I could want as a MK fan back then and now this is one of the reasons I'm buying DS. More than any other game(Except maybe Fallout), I'm an MK fan.("MK"_Red)

Danja6006d ago (Edited 6006d ago )

LOL..yup ur screen name says it all....

I am definetly gonna pick this up for my DS..even though I can easily just put it on my PSP..UMK3 is by far my fav MK game..!!

haha know where is Killer Instinct..

Komrad6006d ago

i'll wait for MK_Red to review this game before making any decisions.

Ri0tSquad6006d ago (Edited 6006d ago )

You would prefer MK2's broken, unbalanced, gameplay over UMK3's balanced gameplay? Ok...... Cant wait for this game and I'm buying a DS for this master piece.

Depends on what MK game were talking about because I see your saying MK3 and I'm talking about UMK3 which fixed all of MK3's bugs, Sub-zero's freeze, Sindel's scream and so on. But MK2 is just plain broken!!! I know from experience and not by what he or she said or told me. UMK3 has everything MK2 was supposed to have! I play MK2 online (ps3) and its the most boring slow paced MK game in history. Theres so many different ways you can prove this. Kitana doing 35% or 40% damage by doing jump kick + fan is just insane! MK2 gameplay is very limited which stops it from being what ultimately became UMK3 which will never get old.

MK_Red6006d ago

God I can't wait for more Killer Instinct :)

Thanks Komrad :) Gotta buy a DS and this one ASAP. I actually bought my PSP just for Mortal Kombat: Unchaited (Which was a huge letdown but thankfully games like Lumines and Mercury made my PSP more than worthy of it's price).

Ri0tSquad, there is a rather big divide between MK fans who consider MK3's sytems to be more broken. Both games have their exploits but there have been more problems in MK3 compared to MK2. In the end, MK3 is indeed my fave 2D MK.

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MK_Red6006d ago

Well, as I said, my other fave game is Fallout so I use MK for my username and Fallout for my avy. My GameSpot account is the opposite. I use Fallout in my username and MK logo as my avy :)

BLUR1116006d ago

, killer instinct was so awesome they need to make a new one , and a awesome new mk thats amazing to!

MK_Red6005d ago

True.
New MK and KI on the next gen hardware with HD graphics would be mindblowing.

Astro6006d ago

Are you on Gamespot? How come, if they gave 7.5 to Ratchet and 8/10 to Uncharted. LOL

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Best Portable Fighting Games (Modojo)

Chris Buffa (Modojo): Handheld fighting games used to blow, big time. Systems like the Game Boy and Game Gear lacked the processing muscle (and buttons, for that matter) to handle arcade hits like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II, yet publishers insisted on shoehorning these games onto every available platform, regardless of quality.

mcstorm4752d ago

Ive just got a 3ds and got street fighter 3D with it and think it works very well on the 3ds looks very good esp in 3d and I like the jump in and out online 2player mode it works as well as it did on my 360. To me I think there is a change in fighting games I think they will start to find a home on the 3ds and ndp and be played less and less on home concepts because of the way the industry has gone last gen and gen before fighting games were massive where this gen they font seem to be ad big but I think it couldbe on portable having with online 2player.

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Mortal Kombat's Female Ninjas Share Cosplay Babe of the Week

"Kitana: In 2008 GamesRadar placed Kitana among "Top 20 Overlooked Game Babes", and UGO Networks ranked her as #28 in their "Top 50 Videogame Hotties" article, stating "Kitana has her curves in all the right places, and her signature fans will keep you cool when things start to heat up."

Mileena: UGO Networks ranked Mileena #5 on their list of top 11 Mortal Kombat characters, citing her presence as an evil female player character as a rarity, as they were a taboo in video games at that time, while her brutal attacks, revealing outfits and slutty attitude made her a fan favorite.

Jade: Jade first appears in MKII as a hidden character who randomly appears onscreen with clues on how to locate her. She was a green palette swap of Kitana and she did not become playable until UMK3 in which her backstory was as a fellow Edenian and childhood friend of Kitana."

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VG_Releaser4948d ago

I thought mileena was different, butt they all look good!

vgn244948d ago

That's about it. I think they had different outfits sometimes later on, but you can see in the actual Midway image that they all shared the same character model with color variants.

Kind of like Reptile, Sub-Zero, Scorpion and so on and so on.

Yi-Long4948d ago

... I just had an orgasmitality in my pants!

ABizzel14948d ago

The Jade's are all hot except 1.

Boody-Bandit4948d ago (Edited 4948d ago )

This one is naughty

nickjkl4948d ago

wait wait wait wait OH and boom goes the dynamite

BeaRye4948d ago

OMG Remember Kitana in the original MK movie?

rezzah4948d ago

Yea, seen that movie maybe almost 10 times.

Gambit074948d ago

I'm guessing they're butterfaces.

vgn244948d ago

Say that to a ninja's face, lol.

Sarcasm4948d ago

Who cares when you tap those ninja ladies from the rear

Convas4948d ago

LMAO and you just now noticed this? Welcome to reality buddy. N4G's been on the downward path for many months now.

kraze074948d ago

Where the hell was that Jade chick when I went to the Anime Expo in LA earlier this year?

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