Mortal Kombat 4

by The 3DO Company

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• ASIN: B000021Y3D
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: Game Cartridge
• Release Date: December 1, 1998
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,214 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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GameSpot Review

While all four of the Mortal Kombat games have been released on Nintendo's portable platform, none of them have been terribly faithful re-creations of the arcade games on which they are based. I mean, let's face it: It's hard to take all those digitized graphics and toss them onto the Game Boy. Tossing the 3D environment of the fourth game would be nearly impossible. So MK4 on the GB is a strictly 2D affair. Many of the original game's characters have been stripped out, and the move count has been greatly reduced. Much like the other MK games on the Game Boy, the controls aren't very responsive. Special moves are a chore to pull off. The game's fatalities are done a bit differently than the fatalities in the previous games. When you perform the move, the game cuts away to a short, grainy animation, presumably digitized from the arcade version. It's a nice, quirky touch that brings a little charm to an otherwise uneventful game. People looking for portable fighting-game action would do well to wait for Street Fighter Alpha, a much more responsive fighting game.--Jeff Gerstmann--Copyright © 1998 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of GameSpot is prohibited.

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What happend?, May 31, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mortal Kombat 4 (Game Cartridge)

After playing the pervious version (Mortal Kombat 3) I was quite impressed and would have expected the next (Mortal Kombat 4) to be even better. However the cold hard fact is that this is just not true. When I first got this game I opened it with trembling fingers and quickly slid in the game and went right for the power switch only to be stunned with disbelief. The graphics were horrendous, the sound was almost pointless, and there was no control to speak of once you started playing. The bottom line is this game isn't even worth thinking about. My suggestion to you if you must play Mortal Kombat right now is to get Mortal Kombat 3. But if I were you I'd wait till Mortal Kombat 5 comes out.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars MK4, January 13, 2005

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Stu "Stv" (NJ) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mortal Kombat 4 (Game Cartridge)

Just give up, this game is so bad i dont how it got a seal of quality. Its MK3 remade. choppy terrible graphics, horrible sound, moves, and everything else. I can't even tell which character im choosing!! You can tell they put noo effort into this game at all. If you want a fighting game try street fighter alpha on Gbc, and stay far away from this!!!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Would give it a zero if there was one, October 16, 2003

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TwistaG "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore" (Moncks Corner,SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mortal Kombat 4 (Game Cartridge)

Talk about a strange marriage. Mortal Kombat, the media's favorite whipping boy when it comes to showing how violent videogames can get, meets the world's most popular game platform for kids. Of course, we're talking Game Boy here, so don't expect copious levels of gore and violence in the first color handheld incarnation of the arcade fighting hit. Let's face it, with its merely average fighting system, the Mortal Kombat series owes a great part of its success to the fact that it combined fast action with over-the-top violence and buckets of blood. But how does this translate to the Game Boy? In order to reach a broader handheld audience and receive a Teen rating from the ESRB, Midway had developer Digital Eclipse (is there any game these guys aren't programming?) tone down the gore level to a minimum. Gone are the puddles of blood from the arcade and console MK4 incarnations and we're left with bare-bones "kombat" before drab backgrounds with short "FMV" fatality sequences that are little pay-off for braving the game's boring fights. The eight characters that made the cut from the original MK4's 15+ are recognizable, thanks to the large, tricolored sprites and the animation isn't bad. But the large sprites have their price and the game just doesn't feel smooth, fast and responsive enough to call itself MK4. Running is easily executed by holding A and B, A throws a punch and B triggers the kick, while the Start button blocks attacks (if you can reach it without hurting your thumb). Entering key commands to pull off some of the few (and rather unspectacular) special attacks is simple. Three strokes do the job for the special moves and a maximum of four commands on the directional pad unleash each character's fatality on a stunned opponent. In the sound department, MK4 disappoints with annoying "percussive" tracks and weak sound effects, but at least the game spits out a few amusing voice samples, such as "Fight!" and the ubiquitous "Fatality!" Sadly, MK4 doesn't support link-up gaming, which means you can only beat up on the computer. To make thing worse, the computer AI in the one-player mode is simply laughable and fails to present a serious challenge to any Game Boy fan. While it may appeal to die-hard Kombat fans, everyone else is best advised to skip this below average pocket fighter. I enjoyed Mortal Kombat 4 on the console systems quite a bit, but the Game Boy version just doesn't cut it for me. Playing alone with an overly limited set of moves against a dumb computer drone gets old real quick. The inclusion of lots of Kombat Kodes is nice, but it's just not enough to energize this lifeless port.