Mortal Kombat Advance

by GameBoy

Product Features

• Best MK on GamBoy Advance

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005RCQR
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 13, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,969 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate Mortal Kombat for Game Boy Advance, January 10, 2002

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Jeff Johnson "Jeff Johnson" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mortal Kombat Advance (Video Game)

The fighting game known as Mortal Kombat returns with a portable game for Game Boy Advance, which features 23 selectable fighters from Liu Kang, Sub Zero, and Scorpion to Smoke, Noob Saibot and Jade. The game itself is exactly like the Ultimate Mortal Kombat game which was released years ago for home systems. The fun part about the game is that every single move, maneuver, friendship and fatality is in the game, but brutalities and animalities are not (no one should care). Also, because of the limited buttons of Game Boy Advance, there is only one punch button and one kick button making each move easy to learn! The game might sound stupendous now, until you play it, the characters are rather slow and sometimes the animation jerks! With the one player mode you chose your fighter and proceed in one of four ladder tournaments, finally battling the half man / half horse Motaro and the evil Emperor; Shao Kahn!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mortal Kombat Advance- My review, January 3, 2002

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Mr. "mark_18" (Berkeley, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mortal Kombat Advance (Video Game)

I have heard a lot of people complain that this game is too hard.
I must point out however that there is a handicap feature which is in the "options" menu that makes the game much more playable. It's poorly explained in the manual; What you have to do to is hit the D pad up and watch the bar move until its a point that you think its ok.

Now having said that...I do think the game does deserve a second look. It had very good graphics and sound. Some of the more complicated moves are tough to administer though. It also takes some patience to learn some of the special abilities for each of the players (like Sub Zero for example).

I recommend this game but be aware this is not a game you can simply jump right in and play. Its does take some time to figure it out.

Hope this review helps..

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Man this game sucks, July 28, 2005

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Micheal Hunt (Hellbourne) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mortal Kombat Advance (Video Game)

Mortal Kombat perfected itself when it brought out the MK Trilogy on Pc and PSX. But before that, the SNES had great games of MK 1, 2 & 3 and then buggered up the trilogy for the N64.

Now that the power of the SNES can be made into a hand held console, you'd think the GBA version of the original style of MK would rock, right? Wrong.

What the hell have they made here????

A GBA is supposed to be a hand held SNES, yet the SNES game never was as slow as this game, the graphics where not as bad (backgrounds are image's) the moves where executable with ease on the SNES and yet this version it takes 2 or 3 tries to get something to work because the response of the game is not fast enough!!! and the worst thing is the feel of it, you cant beat the computer with ease, everything you do gets blocked, the computer all of a sudden goes on a rampage kicking your butt and you cant do anything about it.

Plus, where the hell is Johnny Cage, Goro but most important of all Raiden??? You cant have a MK game without Raiden.

To screw it up even worse, it's a 2 button game now!!! no more jp,lp,lk,hk,b & r...nope, just k & p... press back+K for a roundhouse kick, press down+back+kick for a sweep... that probably would have been ok to get used to if the bloody response of it actually worked... i have to slow down my button pressing so the computer can execute the moves which sucks to high heaven.

I didn't even get a fatality off, there is no one button fatality code. I played this with a gameshark and needed the infinite health code on. You even need the gameshark to unlock Shoakahn, Montoro and Human Smoke because to access them you have to beat the game then get to use them for one round. WHY THE HELL GO BACKWARDS FROM THE TRILOGY? It's a serious down step and it's the worst Mortal Kombat i've ever played. It even makes me like the 64's version better with it's less characters and no one button fatality cheat that every other version had.

This is the worst MK game ever. Dont buy it, it's slow, it doesn't have the right feel, the response sucks, the computer blocks everything, there is hardly a cheat worth looking at, the backgrounds suck.... there is nothing good to say about this game.

Please, if you do like this game, it's probably because you have never played any of the other MK's before. So, go and find an MK game on any other system and find out why I am saying what I am saying about this version, and you will agree with me 100% when you play the GBA version again and it runs so slow and boring and nothing goes right.