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At least there's a lot to choose from
posted by Takerkain (FAIRFIELD, ME) Nov 1, 2006
Member since Jun 2006
19 out of 19 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
Mortal Kombat: Armaggedon is a great game in that there are literally over 60 characters to choose from and the gameplay flows smoothly, but the flaws of the game keep the series from once again climbing to the top of the fighting world. Once you open up the game mode and see how many characters there are to choose from, you feel like this game could last you for a long time if you felt the need to play through them all, but to be honest, besides the top ten or so fighters, who cares about all the Scorpion knock-offs the series is infamous for? Once the action starts though, the game does became fairly fun, for a while at least. You do the basic beat eight or nine enemies and watch the ending (which are absolutly horrible and uninspired) and repeat with a different character. What I like is that you can actually see how much harder each enemy is as they show you what percent difficulty each foe is when they fight you. The move list is very impressive as always, including different moves when you're fighting hand to hand or with a weapon. A same problem that has occured throughout the series is that you can still get by just by jump kicking the entire fight (as one of my buddies proved) and the fatalities are difficult to figure out. The computer is fairly cheap as always, keeping you in the air, comboing you for half your life at times on the higher difficulties, causing one to want to throw the tv out the window at times. I enjoyed the kart racing mode they through in. Although it was not a great game by any means, any extra like that is welcome. They even have a quest-type mode but you play as no one from the game and the battles are overly simple. Overall, although it is a very good game, there is nothing new here that hasn't been seen before.