Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Waste of time"

The idea of mixing Mortal Kombat characters with DC comic characters seems like a great mix of dark styles and brutal battles. Although the result is anything but I'm afraid. Not that I'm saying the game is rubbish not at all, but it certainly can't reach the levels provided by the previous MK games. However we can't judge this game based on the previous MK games that wouldn't be fair. So I'm reviewing it as a stand-alone fighting game.

And as a stand alone fighting game, this is very average indeed. The first and most annoying complaint is the combat. Now I'm not trying to big myself up here but I'm a seasoned veteran of fighting games and the timing required for combos. I love my SNK fighters and timing is critical in those games. However no matter how precise I was I simply couldn't get the annoying combos to work for me.

Now the strange thing is I had no trouble with the combos where you simply press A, then AAB, then AABY etc. it really feels like the combat wasn't finished or they simply couldn't be bothered to finish it. The fighting system is completely unbalanced, where characters can pull out cheesy move after cheesy move on you till you die. The "breaker" (a bit like the combo breaker from Killer Instinct) move at least allows you to have some counter attack.

The other big problem that I feel is totally and I mean totally unforgivable, is the art style and character motives. Liu Kang is supposed to be a Bruce Lee styled martial artist with slender body tone and muscle tone. Not an Arnold Schwarzenegger body double. Matter of fact all the male characters look like they've been working out for England. Liu Kang doesn't even look Chinese, he looks American!, but at least they use a Korean voice actor.

The game looks too americanised, which destroys the illusion of great martial artists battling to the death. They've even destroyed Scorpions story line so that now he's kissing Quan Chi's backside sacrilege! The fact the game has no unlockables (although DLC is promised) was the motion that made me take the game back and demand a refund.

True MK fans beware this game destroys the great heritage of MK games gone by. Don't be fooled this is a basic average fighting game at best.