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Yeah, tbh this is more like Ultimate MK Deception than a true sequel.
Lots of reused stuff, a bare-bones story, no endings besides text. Seems like they almost phined this in.
The Kreate a fighter ALMOST makes up for this. ALMOST. If the gameplay was better it would. But sadly, no. I'll get to that later. But there are a TON of different parts for creating other videogame, comic book, and other pop culture characters in here, alomg with retro mk character parts. They even have LOD's shoulder pads, ffs.
Konquest mode has me very interested so far. Much better than Deception's. Thats all I have to say about that. Bubba Gump.
Extras are decent. Kart racing doesn't look all that great. Would have prefered expanded versions of chess and puzzle kombat.
Now the gameplay. My problem with Mortal Kombat has always been that beyond the special moves and fatality's there isn't much difference between the charactere. And although this new generation tries to improve on that with different fighting styles, no one's style of play is noticably different from eachother outside of the larger characters like Goro and Khan. And with 64 characters even the special moves are just cosmeticly different. Thats the tough part about having such a huge roster. This wouldn't be as big a problem if the fighting flowed a bit better. But everything feels very robotic. You are just memorizing button combinations instead of trying to master the style the character uses.
I hope for the next generation they really revamp the engine. Take an example from Tekken. That series is great because the characters are so radically different. Sure there are a few repeats here and there, but even those characters are different enough that you have to take a good amount of time to master them individually.
This is still worth a rental if you're a fighting game fan, and if you're a mortal kombat fan like me, overall, these things wont get to you that much. I'm just making them known here because they'd probably bother other people more than they do me.
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