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But Mortal Kombat X’s storyline features fully animated, fully voice acted scenes that seamlessly transition into fights. At best, we have seen story modes with long interludes of text over still images. Usually, fighting games simply ignore single-player modes like this, opting for a simple gauntlet of matches with an interspersed cutscene here or there. Even the loading screen has personality, as characters scoff at each other and head to their corners before a match begins.īut nowhere does this personality come through stronger than in the game's fantastic campaign mode. Character costumes are no longer generic ninja suits and skimpy sex princess outfits, and instead focus on bringing out each character’s individual style, from Erron Black's cowboy outfit, to Cassie Cage’s spec ops uniform. The stages feel alive and complex, rather than simply being a painted background for battles to occur on. Every single pair of characters has distinct pre-match conversations that they can have, fleshing out their character and backstory even before versus matches. It’s just dripping with personality, almost as much as it’s dripping with blood. Mortal Kombat X earns its highest marks in presentation.

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Not only that, but a massive day one patch is set to change practically everything about the game, making a lot of these impressions obsolete, and that is kind of annoying both for us game journalists and for players who got the game early and already started learning their favorite characters.īut even with the limited amount of experience I have had, I can already tell that Mortal Kombat X is a solid game. The game’s online servers have not yet been fully activated, and a good portion of the game’s content, such as the Challenge Towers which Netherrealm will change on a regular basis, simply isn’t implemented yet.

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We did not receive a review copy of the game before its launch, and the PC version of the game has been fraught with bugs, some even preventing the game from launching. Of course, this willingness to innovate also results in a couple ideas that were probably best left on the cutting room floor, but it also makes Mortal Kombat X a truly unique experience that is very different from the same arcade-style fighting games that we have seen in the past.Īs things stand, I have only had a limited amount of time with Mortal Kombat X.

It’s also not afraid to try out new systems that we simply haven’t seen in fighting games before. It melds elements of this prior Mortal Kombat release with elements of the in-between DC Comics fighting game, Injustice: Gods Among Us. It is a direct sequel and evolution of 2011’s Mortal Kombat (called Mortal Kombat 9 in fighting game circles). Mortal Kombat X is the latest installment in the Mortal Kombat franchise, and arguably only the second to ever try to be taken seriously as a fighting game.

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