Just look at the one brutal fatality per character, the return of Test Your Might, where you mash the buttons as fast as you can in order for your character to break an object, and the seriousness has been took up a notch (after the original MK, the games just started getting silly). This my friends, is Mortal Kombat.Īs mentioned in the previous paragraph, Deadly Alliance marks Mortal Kombat's return to what made the original so great. The thunder God known as Raiden is still around, and he has assembled the finest fighters in the biz to prevent Shang Tsung and Quan Chi s tyrant of destruction. With them out of the way this should be a cakewalk, right? Not exactly. To make things easier, the two evildoers first do away with the Earthrealm's mightiest warrior, Liu Kang (yes, he's dead), and the ruler of the Outworld, Shao Kahn.

The story in the game revolves around the alliance of two evils Ц Shang Tsung and Quan Chi Ц in their quest to overtake both the Earthrealm and Outworld with the revival of the Dragon King's ancient army of the dead. The game is easily the darkest and more importantly Ц best playing, game in the series to date. And I'm happy to say they were quite successful. Going into development on Deadly Alliance, the developers looked to take the series back to its roots. The console only Deadly Alliance, or Mortal Kombat V if you prefer, is not only a quality Mortal Kombat offering, it's the best the series has yet to see, and easily the best fighting game released on the Xbox in the last year. This is why being the long time fan that I am of the series (I've been with it since the start), that it humbles me to see such a quality offering from the folks at Midway. And many, like myself, thought the Mortal Kombat series was all but gone, with its last release, Mortal Kombat 4, debuting over 5 years ago. A decade later arcades are on the verge of extinction, falling prey to super consoles that can pull off graphics that are hard to top, and so much more. With it's digitalized characters, buckets of blood, and shocking fatalities, the original Mortal Kombat did the impossible and gave the infamous Street Fighter 2 a run for it's hadukin shooting money. It's been 10 long years since the Mortal Kombat craze began in the arcades of America.

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