I had already put in countless hours of MK and performed a million Fatalities, finished the game with each and every character (Sub Zero being my personal favourite) and saw the final scenes (which back then were really just images, plus the presentation of the actors, who were used for the motion capture of the kombatants.

Doom) were the reason gaming became a medium rated by authorities. The seven original characters ( kombatants) each had their own back-story and within them a reason to fight in the tournament for the pride, glory and the future of Earthrealm (or, you know, its total demise!), as well as a set of special moves they were allowed to use on their opponents ( Fatalities, the finishing moves included).Īnd herein lay the novelty of the game! The bloodiness and the violence supreme of the game (alongside a few others, e.g.

What SF lacked in – MK perfected and made better-nothing more so, than the Finish Him/Her sequences, that, when learned properly (as sequenced keyboard strokes) by players, were an indication they’re a force to be reckoned with. When it first came out in 1994, people called it a Street Fighter rip-off, a beautiful unoriginal clone and an all-round revisit of an old idea-however, no publicity is bad publicity and Acclaim used the fact that Mortal Kombat is not a game to be passed by unnoticed. That Mortal Kombat’s idea was not new was known by everyone.

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