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I have been a fan of the Mortal Kombat franchise since the first game. I loved every single Kombat game but thought it got too repetitous by the time MK3 came out, although it was still fun. Mortal Kombat 4, I thought, was the turning point of the franchise. Totally different environments and 3D characters were just a hint of things to come for the franchise.
In 2002, Midway, possibly, made the best Mortal Kombat game since the original: Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. The graphics were the best ever in a Kombat game up to that time and the story was original for the series and entertaining. Not only that, it presented some nice extras for those of you who got tired of playing the arcade mode.
Now two years later, Midway unleashes the sequel to Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance...Mortal Kombat: Deception.
The story takes place almost exactly where the last game left off. The intro. video is very nice and entertaining. The graphics are pretty much the same from Deadly Alliance but upped a little bit. Sadly, there is no music video in this one like the previous game with Adema doing their Immortal as the trademark song for Deadly Alliance.
Back are some classic characters from Kombat games of the past and some nifty new ones. Personally, I think the newer characters to this game are cooler than any other batch of new characters since MK2.
The environments are now tweaked where you can do an instant kill/win by pushing your opponent off the edge of a cliff into a ravine below or into a pool of acid or many other contraptions the arenas may have. Multiple levels are also in the game and the extreme detail put into them is extraordinary! Even the shattering/cracky of glass is nicely detailed!
There are a few new mini-games you can play with if arcade mode and the newly revamped, and nicely done, Konquest mode bore you...Chess Kombat and Puzzle Kombat. Chess Kombat is like what it sounds only with Kombat added to the game. Puzzle Kombat is a Tetris-style mini game only a little different. When you get rid of squares, your character gains energy in his/her special bar. Once the bar is full, you can perform your character's special move that will affect the puzzle playing area of your opponent's. The mini-versions of the characters also fight each other so-to-speak.
All in all MK: D is one of the finest fighting games out there! In fact, as far as newer fighting games, it most likely is the best one out there! For those of you who were addicted to Deadly Alliance, you will find no problem into diving into Deception! I highly recommend this game for fans of Mortal Kombat and fans of the fighting genre.

I was a die-hard MK fan during the 1990's when the first three games were released. However, around the time of Mortal Kombat 4 I felt the direction of the game (and the fun) had become tired.

Now Mortal Kombat: Deception has arrived and turned me into an MK fan all over again. The game works thanks to three solid areas.

#1 - Good old fashioned button mashing fighting is still here along with plenty of characters (classic and new) and some great environments to fight in. Yes Fatalities and Combos are as tricky as ever and now there's even Hara-Kiri (kill yourself before an opponent has a chance to do a fatality.

#2 - IT'S ONLINE! This was the major plus for me since now I can battle my friends (or other humans) on Xbox Live anytime I want. With the old games fighting the computer was repetitive and it was too hard to get breathing people over for some good old fashioned video game violence.

#3 - Konquest Mode. Mortal Kombat delivers a fun little adventure game where you play as a character in the MK world. You have plenty of side quests (most so simple it harkens back to the early 90's style video games) and lots of fights that then kick you into arcade style combat. Through playing the game you also earn coins to unlock movies, characters, costumes, and plenty of extras. You'll spend hours on this part of the game alone.

So for fans of the series I strongly recommend Mortal Kombat: Deceptions. For former fans who might not have played MK in a long time...this is the time to rejoin the franchise.

I bought this game a few days ago and I haven't been able to stop playing it since. Mortal Kombat Deception is just fun all around. First of all the graphics are great, plenty of blood if you are into that thing; the gameplay is also just as good. You have a choice of three fighting styles which makes it that much more fun and challenging plus you have different levels to fight on in each individual level. You can knock someone of a tower and they fall down and you jump right behind and keep on fighting. Very Fun.

The other games like Konquest and Puzzle and Chess are also very fun and add more to the game itelf. Overall a very fun fighting game and very fun to play with other people.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Graphics, Great Fatalities...hard to find the extra fighters..
My main complaint is that I found it very difficult to find the extra characters. I have been playing the MK franchise at home since the Sega Genesis MK 1. Read more

Published on October 21, 2005 by SICK PRAWN

5.0 out of 5 stars Kombat at it's best
If there is anyone who does not think that MKD is the best Mortal Kombat in the world, please speak now. No one? Didn't think so. Read more

Published on August 7, 2005 by John Pion

3.0 out of 5 stars from tlchicken.com, May 2005
Kung Lao, Quan Chi, and Mavado-- three playable characters from the last Mortal Kombat game-- didn't make it into the Mortal Kombat: Deception lineup. Read more

Published on May 11, 2005 by Steven C. Scott

4.0 out of 5 stars A great fighting game - renewed the classics
Wow, first off, let me just advise you not to listen to the review titled "stupid, boring game with horrible live quality". Read more

Published on January 22, 2005 by Who

4.0 out of 5 stars It's the Little Things that Kount...
It was not too long ago that I thought Mortal Kombat was a movie, and just that. You see, I had never had any experience with any of the games. Read more

Published on January 3, 2005 by Colin "The Ninja Guy"

5.0 out of 5 stars MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some of the gore effects ain't as good as deadly alliance.(LIKE Baraka's fatality where he kuts off all of your body barts and blood bubbles and dissapears after hitting the... Read more

Published on December 26, 2004

2.0 out of 5 stars stupid, boring game with horrible live quality
Lemme just start buy saying DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!! Its another boring button masher that'll last your attention for a month and then get boring. Read more

Published on November 9, 2004 by Dude Supy

2.0 out of 5 stars stupid, boring game with horrible live quality
Lemme just start buy saying DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!! Its another boring button masher that'll last your attention for a month and then get boring. Read more

Published on November 9, 2004 by Dude Supy

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Fighter
This is the only the second Mortal Kombat game I've ever owned, and the first is MK 2 on sega genesis, so I can't make any comparisons between other games in the series... Read more

Published on November 4, 2004 by Phil Schulze

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun
Classic Mortal Kombat with some upgrades and some nice graphics.

There is the arcade mode, basically just going from fight to fight beating people down till you get... Read more

Published on October 30, 2004 by JakFrost

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