Konquest is also back and this time Midway took the basic training mode of DA and surrounded it with a simple RPG world to move your character from training session to training session. But I can still sit there for hours inspecting all of the "Kontent" I've won including production art, photos, music, movies and character bios. it's still intimidating to attempt to open them all.
The Krypt is back, this time with 400 graves instead of the DA's 676. Push them off The Pit in round one and they still come back for round two. I will however say that you still must win two rounds even after your kombatant has been bloodily dismembered. The Factory has a grinder, the Sky Temple is a long way to the bottom and the Cliffs are slowly crumbling away. Favorites like The Pit and The Dead Pool are back and rather than having to wait until the end, players can push their opponent off the edge at any time. Yin Yang Island constantly changes from light to dark and if you're standing in the water when the dark would comes you'll boil in acid. Midway also promised that most of the levels would be interactive and they have delivered again. With breakers, a player can stop their opponent's attack in mid-motion and strike back with a well placed haymaker. Finally, Midway has decided cornering will no longer be an option in the MK-verse. Each character also has a ritual suicide move that denies their opponent the chance at a Fatality. Each character has multiple and bloody Fatalities again. The only thing that was cut was the Impale move that many fans hated but that I thought was fantastically bloody brilliant. The three fighting stances, the last one being a weapon style. Deadly Alliance was the test run and Deception was Ed Boon's ideal project. The graphics are more detailed and the fighting is quicker. Otherwise, the fighting in Deception uses the exact same fighting engine as Deadly Alliance, but refined and running smooth. Why yes I did watch a lot of cartoons as a child, why do you ask?
Also, Onaga The Dragon King looks like Unicron. It's obvious now that they were triplets and the one that didn't want to do that stupid talk in unison thing was kicked to the curb. And he looks like one of the twins that were Cobra Commander's right hands. He has the symbol of the Cobra terrorist organization on his hand.
He's obviously a member of Cobra on the run from the G.I. Although I think Kobra weaseled his way in to the wrong game. The new characters are a mixed bag and I mostly stick with the classics. Standbys Scorpion and Sub-Zero are also on hand along with a few characters from Deadly Alliance and a few new ones. I guess my man Stryker (no one else I know will even consider playing as him) was left on the cutting room floor. Baraka, Mileena, Nightwolf (!), Ermac, Noob Saibot & Smoke and Kabal round out the unlikely (or forgotten) picks from MK's past. Many old friends were pulled from the MK scrap heap to become part of the original 12 in Deception (with 12 more hidden). So if DA could be considered Mortal Kombat I Redux then Deception is definitely Mortal Kombat II and 3 better than ever.
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Say what you will about the stories of most fighting games, but Mortal Kombat knows how to work in a compelling story and I was hooked from that opening cinematic.Įd Boon and company often said that Deadly Alliance was a return to simplicity for the series. In a last ditch effort, Raiden sacrificed himself, Quan Chi and Shang Tsung in a great ball of energy that left The Dragon King unscratched. All three joined forces and tried to stop The Dragon King, but it was too late. They defeated him but not before the monster responsible for the MK logo: The Dragon King, rose from his grave to reclaim his army. Raiden had fought his way through the minions of Quan Chi and Shang Tsung and confronted the two sorcerers in Mortal Kombat. And last year we got Mortal Kombat: Deception, a game that improves on Deadly Alliance in nearly every way and has online play to boot.ĭeception picks up right where Deadly Alliance ended. The planned third is still stuck in development hell and I think we can all agree that's a great thing after the abysmal Annihilation. Deadly Alliance was a huge hit and a great game and made Mortal cool again. Mortal Kombat fans have a lot to be grateful for today.