| Introduction:
This game was very popular in the arcades because of one reason: The Blood!!!
You can choose from 7 selectable fighters and you must win the tournament and
defeat the hideous Goro!!! Each of the fighters has two or more special moves
and two fatalities.
Graphics [7/10]:
The fighters are all digitized and are very real and look spectacular, but
there not as big or as crisp as in the arcade version. There is little chance
you'll see any blood because the game is censored for general exhibition. But
there is plenty of the red stuff in MK 2, and 3.
The animation sometimes slows down which is a dissapointment.
Game Play [10/10]:
The game is just like fast food.... quick and satisfiying!!! I found it a bit
hard at first, but I managed to finish it in 3 days. It's easy, since you
have infinite continues (not so, in the sequels). You'll need tons of
practice to find out the special moves, but I have found some. I have written
an incomplete listing of moves for most characters.
Music and Sound [8/10]:
The music is spookily silly, but it's pretty good. They used real
instruments, and there are plenty of bone-crunching effects and speech
samples, and groans. Many of the characters have the same speech sounds.
Challenge and Replay [8/10]:
You'll play this until you've found out all the special moves and hidden
characters. One thing is that the ending is the same on every difficult
setting, which is kind of sad.
Conclusion/Overall [9.5/10]:
If you really enjoyed this game, you'll definatley want to play the sequels.
They have a much improved game engine and design. Overall, it is VERY good!!!
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