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Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance

5 star:		(27)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I almost lost faith in the MK series since MK4 and that disgustingly horrible MK Advance plus I didn't like 3 much either. Now we get an MK that is the best since the god of fighting games Mortal Kombat 2. THe graphics are great, the cube is able to have special features, and no Shao Kahn. I was getting sick of Kahn right after MK2, now he's dead Ahhha! For those who say Moloch is the hardest since Kintaro, forget it, he's really easy. I'll tell how to beat him since I'm nice to you all. Choose Kano, when the fight begins just repeatedly dropkick him till he falls. That's it, he won't fight back. Overall the goods are awesome like the Adema video and the MK history (that's the best part seeing all the old games again). Overall this is one fighting game that you should pick up.

Mortal Kombat is a franchise that has definitely had its ups and downs. MK, MK2, and MK4 in my opinion were all brilliant. The series had some hiccups in MK3 which were further aggravated by UMK3, and then the series really hit rock bottom in the "adventure" games. Deadly Alliance definitely brings the game back to a high standard level. The graphics are incredible, sound is dead-on, and the gameplay is quite good. I think there is a good balance of advanced fighting techniques and the accessibility which was a trademark for MK. So why didn't I give this game 5 stars? There are a few serious flaws here. 1) Moloch is one of the worst boss characters ever devised. This is shocking to me after brilliant bosses like Goro, Kintaro, Motaro, Khan, and even Shang Tsung. He is ridiculously hard and once again the only way to beat him is with repetitive kicks or one special move. Shang Tsung as the last boss without any morphing is rather dull too. 2) The whole Krypt idea was a bad idea. I couldn't believe it when I booted up the game and Raiden has to be unlocked?! Whose hair brained idea was that? The fact that I need 3000 green coins to do it is really depressing, especially since the 1 player game is really, really hard with the computer pulling off insane combos and blocking every move you make (Mortal Kombat Trilogy anyone?). The real kicker is I hear Raiden's flying torpedo move is gone...sad. The bottom line...an overall technically well done fighting game with some unfortunately bad ideas on the 1 player side of the house.

I was quite surprised at the quality of Midway's latest fighter. No longer are the days when the only hope of Mortal Kombat being waiting thru some cheap, lifeless match to get to the fatalities. In fact, the fatalities in this game are some of the lamest ever, yet it is still the best Mortal Kombat.

The gameplay has been tweaked a whole bunch. Each fighter has two martial art fighting styles (almost ever martial art there exists is represented), then another weapon style. Some of the styles are better than others, but the weapons sure do come in handy if you want an easy win

The characters themselves are okay, but the rest of the graphics are great. Now, when you drop blood on the ground, It stays on the ground. Walk through it, and you leave a little path of blood footprints. And during the match, the fighters faces show bruises, and gashes and all that other fun stuff.

However, the most fun thing of all is taking your weapon, impaling your opponent, and watching them bleed to death.

Then the fatalities. One per charachter, no pits, or any of the other -alities that were in the past games. The fatalities that they do have are quite boring. Neck stretch, to knock off your opponent's head, nothing we've never seen before. Also, the "Goro" of this game Moloch is super cheap. Although this is nothing new to a Mortal Kombat game, it still very frustrating trying to beat him.

There are only twelve fighters to start. You unlock others by collecting coins, and going to the Krypt to unlock them. It's a good idea, but tedious. Especially since there are 11 other fighters, but 676 Koffins.

It is fabulous. The grafic is wonderful and the character's moves, like reality! Its super cool, u get to unlock characters and even costumes. The characters are like real people, and we can even choose (in the settings) wether the characters can bleed or not. The fatalities are all nice. But i don't reccomend it to small kids, though. not only bevause of the violence, but the costumes as well( im referring to the woman's costume) Its too much exposure, It does show a little to much exposure! This game is not good for the child's mind.

Deadly Alliance is by far the best Mortal Kombat of them all. The graphics of the game are simply spectacular! The story is extremely cool! I was so happy to be rid of Liu Kang and Shao Kahn. The fighting system is unique and put together well. Each character gets two fighting styles and a weapon style to fight with and no character has the same styles as another. A new feature that is cool is while you're beating the heck out of eachother, bruises and cuts will appear on the fighter's bodies. There can be some excessive bleeding at times which i found to be a little far fetched. The greatest thing of MKDA is that there is mucho replay value in this game. You can unlock over 600 things (hidden characters, arenas, ect.) with koins that you recieve after attaining a victory over an opponent. You only recieve a maximum of 50 to 500 per match and the Koffins that you can open are quite expensive.
The only downsides of MKDA are 1)the fatalities. I was so disapointed with them because they are just too lame. The fatalities in MK1 were better than MKDA. They also took away Sub-Zero's head rip fatality. What's up with that! 2)The combos for each character are too difficult and frustrating to remember. It could be the gamecube controller. i don't know how it works on the other consoles. 3)you can't use the analog stick on the Gamecube controller which is used for 99% of all other games on GC. and 4) The moloch character is the biggest cheap ... ever. The only way to beat this cheater is to cheat even more.
Besides these flaws Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance is definitely worth the cash to buy.

This game is one that is hard for me to review, and one of the biggest reasons why that is, is that I didn't play it on the initial release. I, like many people of my generation, grew up on the original trilogy, and like many of them, the third, along with its many reissues, with the fourth instalment being an utter abortion with plenty of tie in games and horrible pg-13 movie adaptation, to there even being a sub zero clone on WCW, and the live show tours, the franchise had pretty much lost any appeal to me by the time that this game came along. i didn't think to purchase it, so kept hearing good things from friends about the new trillogy, starting with this one and going through deception and armegedon. I won't get into the newer versions to include DC and the present incarnation, but I can tell you that the new Mortal Kombat online trailer gives me chills at the possibilities of where this franchise could go because the possiblity is definately there. This game took a lot of necisary steps in the right direction, because though Mortal Kombat was never really known for having a great fighting system, and was labeled in some circles as having a fighting game built around the ability to inact the fatalities, it had always been functional, and the later ones seemed like they were tailor made for gamers to memorize long combos or just unresponsive in 4. This changed into a three style fighting system that works well, but does not retain the traditional feel. This is definately a new franchise, which I am completely fine with, it is going out to be its own thing. I can appreciate that especially when I look at it from the point of view that it still manages a 2-D feel while being a functional 3-D game. Like many others I will complain about the lack of fatalities and of how well they are exicuted. This would get corrected in later instalments, which I played before this one. Is it worth the purchase if you already own Deception or Armegeddon. I would definately buy Deception first. The only real reason to get this game which offers less overall would be in that not offering all the characters and move options, you have to work with what you have that can change the dynamic of the game, which I do enjoy to some degree. The storyline in Deception also stems from this one, though is much better executed in Deception, while here it is merely a cut scene in the beginning that tries its best to use memorable characters that fans have grown to love, and make some sense of the jumble that came before, as there seemed to be so many loop holes in the outer world trying to destroy earth that it seemed as if Outworld government was like George Bush and earth was an oil rich country that was going to get invaded no matter what it did, they would find an excuse. The big event that happens is long time favorite lu kang dies, which of course symbolizes a changing of the guard. If this game is cheap, or you are a completionist, its still a good game, but not a classic and definately shows its age.

Deadly alliance is the fifth fighting MK.

Pros
Konquest, the tutorial mode is somewhat awkward and bothersome and at times difficult.
Buying in the Krypt is fun for a while.
Most of the returning characters.
Three disciplines for each character, one of them is weapon based.
Fairly easy for beginners.
IMHO Kenshi is probably the best new MK character since MK2. Li Mei, Nitara and Frost are just OK.

Cons
The graphics are unimpressive.
The multi kurrency gets annoying really fast.
Some kombos are really complicated, nearly impractical unless you have the time and willingness to master them
Multi-Discipline Kombos, IMHO these are the worts kind of kombos, mainly because I find the L and R button unsuitable for a fighting game
I don't believe that the GameCube control was designed thinking about fighting games. But this is no failure of MK itself.
Bo' Rai Cho, Mavado, Drahmin and Hsu Hao are probably the worst new characters ever. Mokap is just a bad idea.
This game doesn't include some popular characters like Liu Kang, Jade, Mileena and Baraka.
No online play.

New characters
Blaze
Bo' Rai Cho
Drahmin
Frost
Hsu Hao
Kenshi
Li Mei
Mavado
Mokap
Moloch
Nitara

Returning characters
Cyrax
Jax Briggs
Johnny Cage
Kano
Kitana
Kung Lao
Quan Chi
Raiden
Reptile
Scorpion
Shang Tsung
Sonya Blade
Sub-Zero

OK, maybe this game is already too dated; maybe you should already consider buying MK Armageddon instead, if you have a PS2.
IMHO, if you have a GameCube and you like fighting games, I'd recommend Soul Calibur 2.

It seems to me that this game is trying way too hard to break out of being just another Mortal Kombat game. The complaints of the simplistic combat system from previous MK games could no longer be ignored, so they invented a new combat system from the ground up. Like Sould Calibur, the direction you are pointing the D-Pad changes the type of attack, only unlike Soul Calibur it is somewhat unpredictable and less intuitive if you don't have each of the many moves memorized. A cool feature that enables you to switch between 2 fighting styles and 1 weapon style is a nice addition, but the combos that involve switching between the styles are quite difficult. While, it is cool that the new fighting system is based on actual martial arts styles, it would have been nice to included a feature to play with the old system...maybe by changing to "Classic Kombat" under the options screen. It is a very big minus that you cannot use the analog joystick...only the d-pad, which I find somewhat frustrating.
I find it very disapointing that some of the characters' signature moves are absent and each character only has a couple. You won't find Raiden's torpedo or teleport, nor will you find Scorpions teleport punch or even Kitana's fan throw.
In the past the fatality system had gotten a little out of hand with the addition of animalities, babalities, friendships, brutalties, etc...but in this game they opted to keep it simple by only giving each character 1 lonesome fatality. I find it humorous that the majority of fatalities end with the victor stomping on the defeated.
Which leads me to this; Mortal Kombat became popular due to the fact that it was so realistic, using digitized actors as fighters, but now the characters are bulky, overly muscular, that move stiffly, look like they are made out of plastic, and spew red pudding. Every character has had a complete makeover and looks nothing like they originally did.
Ever since Mortal Kombat 3, Midway has been unable to introduce any interesting new characters...same goes for this game. The new characters are easily forgotten and too generic to be anything other than fillers.
Other than elimination and versus, there is practice and konquest which are both just training modes. No tournament mode or 2 on 2 mode to be found.
My conclusion is to skip this game...maybe rent it, and pick up Mortal Kombat: Deception instead, as it addresses the majority of my complaints on this game.

This is definitely the best Mortal Kombat game i have ever played! The graphics are great, the fatalities are good, and to top it all off, each character has 3 fighting styles, icluding an awesome weapon. The graphics in this game are the bloodiest you have ever seen. When you hurt someone, the blood stays on the ground. There are even cuts and bruises on the fighters. This is the most realistic fighting game i have ever seen. I would definitely give it a 10 out of 10. There is even a "Krypt" where you can but levels, characters, and even MK art! Get this game if you like Mortal Kombat games. It is the best one in the set. If you like Tekken, you will love this even more!

This Mortal Kombat is definitly the best one of all. . Some advantages of the game; the ability to switch fighting styles is great! Every character has a weapon and some can even leave their weapon in their opponents body. The addition of "battle wounds", the cuts and bruises that remain after a beating and the more realistic blood are both great additions. The arenas and characters are far superior to past games not only in conception but also originality. The addition of a vast array of female characters is great too. Li Mei, Kitana, Frost, Nitara and Sonya are all great characters to fight with. Being a woman myself, I hate it when the female characters in fighting games are noticeably weaker than the males. The women in this game are just as tough, both to master and play against. The concept of earning koins and buying characters costumes and more adds immensely to the enjoyment of the game especially if you are playing alone. The Konquest mode is my favorite because the game actually teaches you your chosen character's moves. No button mashing needed. The game does have drawbacks, among them the fact that you cannot use the analog control stick on the GameCube controller; you have to use the control pad. This makes it difficult to switch between games. Also, the Moloch character is much to difficult to play against. Luckily there are other modes to play or else I would have quit the game by now. Overall, I love this game! It's my favorite game on my GameCube so far and after a month, I'm still having fun with it!