bit-tech Shopping: Midway Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (Xbox)

Rating: 8

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Strengths: great selection of characters

Weaknesses: not enough variety in gameplay

Summary: Mortal Kombat has finally arrived to the XBOX and in three-dimensional game play and leaves its two dimensional world behind. This game basically expands and furthers the storyline of the original mortal kombat Tournament and adds even more characters and moves to the game play. This game requires more strategy than the original because now you have to worry about fighting in three dimensions and avoiding the various environmental traps that surrounds each fight arena. Each fighter also has a variety of different martial arts styles that he can choose from and change on the fly. He can also wield a weapon such as a sword, nunchucks, batons, and other assortment of deadly implements. This really adds to the overall fun of the game play because you require different strategies in order to attack and defend against the other opponent?s martial arts. You can also earn coins as you play in order to unlock bonus content such as game images and production art. many of the fatalities from the previous games have also been included in addition to many new ones that are more gruesome than ever. They have also removed many of the original?s goofy moves and fatalities in order to stress the more serious tone of the game. Overall I highly recommend getting this game as it holds its own against the other popular fighting games out there such as Tekken and Virtua Fighter.