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Mortal Kombat Deception

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and this is coming from someone who plays almost ONLY rpgs.

the first day i played the game, i only played konquest mode and the puzzle game. it's so good, even the part of the game that isn't really THE GAME is great.

konquest mode in this game is WAY different than it was in deadly alliance. it's practically a VERY large game in itself...it even has storyline! i still haven't completed it.. i think i have over 5 hours on it.

the puzzle game is wicked fun. in fact, it may even be more addicting than tetris.

the chess game is a bit difficult to keep up with...it's not like regular chess. you actually have to fight a mortal kombat battle in order to take a piece. kind of confusing, but worth looking at anyway.

as for the actual game, it's great as well. the interactive backgrounds are my favorite thing about it. there's nothing more fun than knocking people into grinding blades, or knocking them off a REALLY high place...so they can fall on a sharp rock.

the kript is as annoying as usual, but it really makes you want to get koins, so you can get all the characters, and all that jazz.

as for everything else, graphics are great, pretty much the same as deadly alliance. gameplay is the same too, except in conquest mode. also, there's no jabbing a weapon into someone...which i think was just fine to take out. sounds and music is improved.

i have a feeling this game will keep me occupied longer than most rpgs i play. that disturbes me and makes me very happy at the same time. i suggest gettin on the ball and pickin this up.

All I can say, is this is the BEST MK game ever- even better than Armageddon. The konquest mode is so addicting- just buy it and you will be addicted to it.

I've been a fan of Mortal Kombat since the first, that i've played at the arcades and that i owned later in snes, i got also the trilogy for the ps1. This game redefines the fighting style, a lot of characters, 2 different fighting style per character plus a weapon fighting style, you can combine all three styles in combos, you also have the konquest mode that is great, very different from deadly alliance, and you can play the game over the internet, if you think the computer cannot beat you anymore you can go and find your true match over the internet, and if you have the usb headset, you can talk to your rival also. A great game with incredible graphics and amazing sound, and of course incredible fatalities. And i'm not talking about the content, you can unlock hundreds of pictures and movies to enjoy. If you like the MK series, then get it, you won't regret it.

Mortal Kombat: Deception had been long-awaited by MK fans, after the surprising success of Deadly Alliance. However, you may realize within 5 minutes of playing the game that Deception is not really a new Mortal Kombat game, but actually a moderate update to Deadly Alliance.

The game picks up immediately where Deadly Alliance left off, with a shocking opening cinema revealing the death of Earthrealm's heroes, and featuring the return of the dreaded 'Dragon King'. With this powerful foe resurrected, unlikely allies join forces to battle him but are unsuccessful. With both Shang Tsung and Quan Chi apparently dead (for now...no one stays dead in Mortal Kombat for more than a game or two), the Dragon King is now free to rule the realm, but he would not have been able to accomplish this had he not deceived Shujinko, the game's new main character, into resurrecting him in the first place.

The intro is exciting and very well done...compared to the laughable opening cinema of Deadly Alliance, Deception's opening vid is gorgeous, with outstanding graphics, music and sound. It definitely hooks you and gets you wanting to play the game. So, what does the game itself have to offer?

Not much different than Deadly Alliance at all, MK:D features returning characters Sub-Zero and Scorpion(of course) alongside some of Mortal Kombat's more obscure classic characters, namely the stars of Mortal Kombat 3. All of the classic characters of the previous game have been sacrificed in favor of these 'one-game wonder' classics, featuring fan-favorite Kabal, the enigmatic Noob Saibot, Sindel, Nightwolf, Jade and more. These characters return alongside a series of new characters, some of which are interesting, others which almost seem to be out of place with Mortal Kombat.

The fighting engine itself is virtually identical to Deadly Alliance, which may be considered a flaw by some, and a blessing by others. You can still change between 3 fighting styles on the fly, 2 martial art and 1 weapon. The same tricks apply, though some of the more unbalanced fighters have been tweaked, but unfortunately the tweaking has made some of them worse. Because of this distinct similarity, some returning characters from the previous game play identically to how they played in the previous game. For example, I was able to pick up the game and beat it with Sub-Zero in about 15 minutes in my first play through, as his move sets were nearly unchanged.

Gone from this game is the 'impale' manuever, which allowed for players to lose their weapon ability in favor of jamming it through the opponent so that the opponent will constantly lose health through the round. In its place is a very flawed, very easily abused 'Breaker' system which allows characters to automatically break out of any combo, instantly. This makes for very unrealistic and ridiculous gameplay. For example, an opponent being juggled in the air will suddenly drop to the ground on his/her feet and knock the opponent away, out of the combo. Thankfully, this easily abused system is limited to only three uses per fight, so it must be used wisely.

Contrary to what you may have heard, Mortal Kombat: Deception does not feature stage fatalities or pits. Instead, we get 'Death Traps' which are exaggerated, over-the-top 'ring out' conditions. So in other words, instead of falling off of an arena and seeing 'soandso wins', you are treated to a gory death sequence from one of the arena's grisly contraptions. Some arenas have more than 1 death trap. Others have no death trap at all. In any case, death traps do not end the fight...despite being chopped to bits in the first round, the second round will begin as if nothing happened, making the novelty of Death Traps wear off VERY quickly (I got bored of them within 2 days) and making the fights more ridiculous and unrealistic than ever before in this series. Thankfully, the invisible walls of Deadly Alliance are gone, and death traps can be disabled for a more fair fight (as death traps are easily abused).

Fatality fans were disappointed with the abysmal finishers in Deadly Alliance. Deception more than makes up for this with 2 fatalities per character and a new 'hara kiri' move, which is the famed 'suicide-ality' that fans have been rumoring since the Mortal Kombat 2 days. Though Deadly Alliance featured probably the worst fatalities in the history of MK (Quan Chi comes to mind), Deception has some of the most gruesome, creative, and violent ones yet. However, many of them are still redundant and ridiculous, so don't expect to like them all.

It seems the overall fighting engine and graphics were sacrificed in favor of MK's 3 bonus games. One game is 'Puzzle Kombat', which is the Mortal Kombat take on the widely popular 'Super Puzzle Fighter' series from Capcom. The game is frustrating and unrewarding, but addicting if you get the hang of it. The other game is MK Chess, a very interesting take on the classic chess game that has you select fighters to be your specific piece classes. However, you cannot simply take a space from your opponent, you have to fight for it. It is a fun deviation from the normal game.

Last but not least is Konquest, which I thought was an excellent but poorly executed idea. You play as Shujinko from teenage years to adulthood, and the story leads you through how Onaga the Dragon King came to return. The game clearly tries to expand on the precedent set by Soul Blade/Soul Calibur series with the edge master mode, just on a much more grand scale. Unfortunately, all Konquest boils down to is mindless, repetetive fetch quests and ridiculously hard challenges that yield little reward.

Every MK fan has been waiting for the online component, and now you have it, though it is quite flawed. Cheat devices are easily implemented, and fights are often unbalanced, due to the gameplay issues with infinite combos and the like. However, facing total strangers is fun, and while its not quite like the old days I remember of jamming quarters into the Mortal Kombat 2 machine and beating opponent after opponent, it gets the job done. However, there are many players who simply abuse repetition, and server lag tends to favor such tactics, making the online component a real downer in the end.

Overall, Deception is a nice addition to the Mortal Kombat library, even though it is little more than Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance and a 1/2. It sacrificed the previous game's most popular characters in favor of bringing back half the MK3 cast, effectively making the game nothing more than a showcase for the one-game wonders. The game makes no remarkable improvements, and even steps backward on a few issues. However, Kombat fans will love the game and will love to see their old favorites return.

Bottomline, the game feels more like an expansion pack to Deadly Alliance rather than a new game in the series.

I remember playing the first of these games when they were still new. It's fun, and exciting. What I like about these games, is while there is fighting and the main purpose of the game is to inflict pain upon your opponent, you use fictional characters and you don't kill just to kill. There is a storyline to it, which makes it better than a game where you just walk around and shoot random people. I've always loved this game. Very fun, and it can be stress relieving.

Please don't show this game to Hilary Clinton.
All jokes aside, this game a bloody good time, pun intended. It is completely different than all of the other MK games out there. It allows you to switch between fists and weapons, plus the special moves are much easier to figure out this time around. The only minor gripe that I have is that, in order to do combos, you have to push the buttons impossibly fast, which results in blisters(occasionally).
The blood is over the top, the gameplay is great and the fatalities are incredibly fun. It is probably the best MK ever.

This is my second favorite game on MK next to Shaolin Monks. It has a battle system very simmilar to deadly alliance except it has more fatalities. now this game doesn't have goro but another big guy to replace him. You start off with a beginner martial artist then go to different realms learning more styles. I rate this game 5 stars because the battle system is very accurate and it has A nice storyline.

Taking everything that made Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance a revolutionary entry into the long running series, Mortal Kombat: Deception ups the ante considerably and is by far the best Mortal Kombat game yet. Running on the Deadly Alliance engine, Deception picks up right after the conclusion of the previous game as Onaga the Dragon King makes short work of Raiden, Shang Tsung, and Quan Chi; and has taken the rest of the MK warriors as his slaves and prisoners. Deception not only introduces us to a list of new fighters, it also brings back vintage fighters from MK 2 and 3 like Nightwolf, Sindel, Baraka, Mileena, Jade, and cyber-Smoke; along with all their glorious and gory fatalities as well. Besides one on one fighting and the returning Krypt unlockables feature, Conquest Mode has returned, and it has been greatly revamped. This time around, it is much less linear as you go through free roaming environments to be taught the ways of Mortal Kombat by Bo Rai Cho and others on your way to becoming a master kombatant. There's also some new features as well: Puzzle Kombat and Chess Kombat. Puzzle Kombat is the most entertaining of the two, as you line up blocks while bobbleheaded fighters smack each other around at the bottom of the screen. Also, for the first time ever, Midway offers up some online play which is a more than welcome addition to the series. The most apparent thing you'll notice about Deception are the various odes to past games in the series, as well as some graphical improvments over Deadly Alliance. Everything else about Deception is top notch, helping make it the best game yet in the series. All in all, Deception isn't only a must own for long time MK fans, it's one of the best fighting games to grace consoles in the past few years.

Well, okay it is mortal kombat. They added a lot of features that a lot of people would find amusing.. Konquest Mode, Puzzle Kombat. and Chess Kombat, to name the main elements. These are some of my many problems: The combos are seemingly impossible to me, the Konquest Mode was just ( to me ) seemingly a quick little throw-together to get this game out in stores. The onyl way to get characters is by playing konquest, and I am dead stuck at the beggining - in training! - And no- I am not a beginner to VideoGames even though I am only 14, In fact, I found a glitch in a video game for my first time when I was 6.. but getting back on topic, the game isnt fun. The clunky controls don't suit for me at all, but what I did like about this game was this: The Puzzle Kombat and Kinda the chess kombat. I just like sitting down to a game or two of one of those. I think i may be a little generous rating this game a 2 out of 5, but i'm not buying this game for you - I'm merely telling you what I THINK ABOUT IT.

This to me is not worth ( the 50 or 60 dollars . Depending on if you buy the extra pack like me which includes the original Mortal Kombat ) the money. It's worth a rental. Nothing more, nothing less.

I'm dissapointed in you, sadly, Midway, for these new generation Mortal Kombat games..

Have fun! - - ( with the chess/puzzle kombat ) :)

MK Deception has the much needed improvements over Deadly Alliance. The multi level stages are cool as are the death traps, (especially when you're so into a battle you forget there's one behind you). I haven't tried the online feature yet which is supposed to be the best addition to the game. Lots of blood and guts as you'd expect from any MK game. Most of the fatalities are pretty creative (thankfully no really lame ones like Quan Chi's old neck stretch in DA).

I still think they could have done away with the krypt, or put more intersting stuff in it, photos & sketches don't cut it. Perhaps some of that memory could have been used for animated endings. Konquest mode has been GREATLY improved though once you're done not much reason to play again. Puzzle kombat is cool side game. I don't know how to play chess so can't comment on Chess Kombat but it looks like it would be at least interesting.

I've read a lot of reviews compaining about the fight engine. Most said Tekken and Virtua Fighter have better ones. Tekken is ok but please...that fight engine is really slow by comparison, ditto for VF (though it's been a while since I've played VF). With MK press one button and your opponent has blood pouting from his/her face, who could ask for more. Bottom line, MK fans will like this one. The improvements over DA are welcome. Multiple fatalities, returning characters, suicides, death traps....argh, argh, argh.