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Mortal Kombat Deception

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If you're a fan of the Mortal Kombat series, or fighting games in general, get ready. This mature title has got puzzles, RPG, chess, and yes, lots of bloody Kombat!

The traditional aspects of Mortal Kombat are here. You have different characters to choose from. Different styles of fighting. Key combinations create gorgeous attack moves. You earn coins as you go, to spend on unlocking new characters, levels, and other secrets.

The graphics here are simply gorgeous. The floors and walls have textures from shiny and reflective to grainy matte. The glow of fire, misty mountains and glowing lights are quite impressive. Characters have robes that flow with the action and accessories that sway realistically. If you want to be gory, the blood even flows down your body.

On the other hand, in Dead or Alive the environments are amazingly reactive - fighting in a snowy area leaves tracks in the snow, and autumn leaves blow past you in the forest. In comparison, Mortal Kombat has a desert island fight seem like the ground is made of concrete. So there is still room for improvement.

Body movements are equally as well done. Gone are the days of blocky characters with jerky attacks. You can really feel like you're in a martial arts movie here, with the super smooth blocks and combo kicks. This is great for the audience the game is intended for (mature) - but means that youngsters can easily get upset by some of the very realistic back-breaking moves. There's a reason this game earned that mature rating.

Even the sub-games are so good that they could easily qualify as standalone packages. The Puzzle Kombat is in essence tetris with fighting animations for when you do well. Chess Kombat is chess with little mortal kombat pieces. You can play both of these on XBox Live too! There's also a Konquest Adventure where you wander around talking to characters and taking on quests.

Highly recommended for mature fighting game fans, and with all of the things to unlock you have great incentive to play for weeks and weeks to see everything.

I could best describe this game as Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance done right. Kombat is exactly the same as in Deadly Alliance with a few added features. In this game, the arena can be just as great a factor in the match as the opponent. Opponents can be knocked off the stage to different levels, get caught in traps, and there are even some in game weapons to be picked up. The character roster is great as well. They finally got rid of that stupid Jhonny Cage! Kabal, Baraka, Nightwolf, and Sindel are just some of the old faces making their return. And of course, what mortal kombat game would be complete without Scorpion and Sub-Zero?

The Konquest mode varies from Deadly Alliance in that it is actually an engaging story; rather than just character by character training. You manage a guy named Shujinko who travels the realms learning the ways of kombat. You meet each of the kombat characters in the game and get trained by them, as them. There are also a lot of optional tasks to complete for various villagers to earn koins. This is certainly a much better way of earning kurrncey than in MK5 which was just really boring. Though, I'm still not sure if I even dig this kurrency and krypt thing at all anyways. Oh well, they did it and its improved upon.

There are also two new features: Puzzle Kombat and Kombat chess. A mortal kombat version of chess and a falling piece game. I was skeptical at first, but these are actually a lot of fun, and rather addicting.

All in all, MK6 is really great and way better than the previous.

if you play the mortal kombat series you should definetly pick up this game. In my opinion it is the best Mortal Kombat game that has come out.

Mortal Kombat Deception has perhaps the best combination of the classic MK and expanded on every level. Several of the original fighters are present (Sub-Zero and Scorpion included) and newer fighters, with surprises throughout the game. The Konquest game follows the early adventures of Shujinko and encounters several fighters of the MK universe and attaining experience. Well designed and a lot to encounter. Not an easy game but fun, without question.

this game is easily better than any of its predecessers from earlier systems.all of the really hard stuff from back in the day has been put in here with minimal work by the player.like the weopons can be brought out with only 2 clicks.there are also multiple fighting styles each with 4 new attacks.so in short you have 3 fighting styles times 4 attacks per,thats 12 very devastating yet easy attacks to hit.heres where it gets icky.being as how there are a lot of easy to hit moves,there are a bunch of even harder cool moves to do.these are not necessary and require a deal of luck to actualy perform.another cool addition is environmental kills.at any time during a fight you can toss a guy say into acid or off a hill if they are positioned right.the real pain in the thumbs is that you only start with one third of all the obtainable characters.the others are winnable in adventure mode.i cant even get past the first level to get them.so,if you just want to bust some people up,this is your game!if you are ocd about be all you can be,then good luck.you'll need it.its your only hope.

I'm a big mortal Kombat Fan and when I first got deadly alliance I loved it. It was my favorite mortal Kombat game and still is. When I got news about MK Deception I had to play it or at least see the cover of it. Anyways I now have Mortal Kombat,Mortal Kombat 2,Mortal Kombat 3,Mortal kombat 4,Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance,Mortal Kombat Deception, and I use to have MK Shaolin Monks But I hated it so I got money for it by selling it. MK DA is still my favorite but Deception is a very good game too. You will love the new Konquest mode which I already beat and you sub-zero fans will love to see the bad version of subzero again. The way I can tell is because there is no scar on his face. I'm glad they brought back old characters like one of my favorites Ermac,and the sharp witted Baraka. They have also layed out some new characters like Kobra and Dariou. This game is fun and has crisp sound and graphics. Check out my reviews on any MK games. You will know because my logo will be at the bottom of the review.

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I HAD THIS GAME SO MANY TIMES.. AND I CANT GET ENOUGH I PLAY WITH MY KIDS MAKES ME FEEL YOUNG LOL.. JUST ORDERED IT A FEW DAYS AGO AND IT CAME IN GOOD TIMING.. AND I LEARNED THAT WHEN YOU BUY A NEW GAME ALL OF YOUR STUFF IS STILL SAVED IF YOU HAVE A HARD DRIVE.. NICE ;)

I used to have Mortal Kombat when kids were young, played it alot. This one is OK but not quite as good as our old Mortal Kombat.

Pretty good game. If you haven't played either of the 3D mortal komat games there's a bit of a learning curve for all characters but it doesn't take too long to learn their combos. And if you can find entertainment value in bad voice acting than you'll love the konquest mode. Haha! I recommend this as a good fighting game.

As I fight and claw my way through Mortal Kombat's Deception Konquest Mode, I keep one thing on my mind, to free my Queen Sindel. I admit that visiting Earthrealm, Netherrealm, Orderrealm, and my favorite Chaos Realm are interesting, but Mortal Kombat is all about kicking butt and looking at Sindel's perfect butt.

It is good that the old classic characters are still around. Who would want to pick up an MK game without Sub-Zero or Scorpion? And even though I never really liked Tanya, it's good to see her still kicking it, but I so much prefer the hotter and sexier Mileena, Kitana, Jade, and Liu Mae.

I don't spend too much time with the chess or tetris game. I like to beat the boss in arcade mode, and I'm still trying to get through Konquest.

Some characters can be purchased outright in the Krypt, others must be unlocked through Konquest. I wish I could just buy Sindel, but if I could I would not play konquest, and I guess the makers had that in mind.

The levels, fatalities, and boss do not disappoint in this game. The imagination and gore are still a big part of the MK series and in Deception there are no disappointments there.