jeary
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I know you all missed me. I left right when Dark Kahn screens were posted because I did not want to be spoiled at all. I hoped and sortof expected something crazy to be added or revealed in the past month and I would be in shock when I actually played the game. Besides what Dark Kahn looks like, it appears I have missed nothing.
Here is a list of the good, the bad, and everything in between from my opinion.
The Good:
1. Story mode videos - simply amazing. Graphics looked great from sub-zero's breathing to the veins popping out of muscles.
2. Graphics - Every character looks great before during and after fight mode.
3. Transitions - I was very glad to see them transition right into the fight rather than a loading screen in between.
4. Uniform Damage Retention - Huge plus to see these guys take damage for once.
5. Sonya Glitch - When I defeated Sonya with The Joker, half of her top turned into her skin color. I thought I saw nipple for a second.
Good/Bad/Had Potential:
1. Klose Kombat - I liked it alot, but seems that it is done very rarely.
2. Falling Kombat - loved this, except for the fact that I would get 4 hits in, then it would be reversed and my opponent gets credit for 25-30% damage. It is like my 4 hits in the beginning never took place.
3. Dark Kahn - While, he was decent, I still feel cheated a bit; like they could have done so much more with the potential of Darkseid/Shao Kahn combining.
4. Fatalities - Classic MK ones were good since they had to keep it T, but the Brutality crap was just repetitive and boring.
The Bad:
1. Endings - While some of the stories are cool, the one picture with a brief description is pretty weak. With the awesomeness of the story mode videos, they have these as endings? Seriously?
2. Kombo Challenge - Whos idea was this? These are beyond hard and while they can be accomplished with practice, the average fan will give up after a few tries. What the hell is with the brief pause crap? Huge fail here Midway.
3. Story Mode - While the story was decent, you only get to play as 7/11 of the characters from each side.
4. No Unlockables - No concept art? No video bios? All we get is Kahn and Darkseid, which I'm happy about, but still they could have given us a reason besides trophies to keep playing.
5. No mini-game or anything similar - Chess/Puzzle Kombat/Conquest/Kart - These were all small and very unnecessary additions (besides conquest) that extended the play of the game by hours for most people.
6. Joker Fatality - I go away for a month thinking they pushed the T rating with the sick Joker fatality that was released earlier to find out it sucks now.
7. Quan Chi - Why was he not in the game? Besides the little Green lantern martian people and Deathstrokes random victim, he was the only character we saw that was unplayable. Kano was virtually useless. Quan Chi should have replaced Kano. Hell he had more video time than Kano anyways.
Overall, even though my grade counts from shit, I would give it a C+ or a 7/10. Seems like yet again they rushed this game onto shelves and used the marketability of Batman/Scorpion/Joker/Superman/Etc... to sell copies. So much potential with so much left on the table....
It is about 24 hours since I picked up the game and I already beat the story modes, went through arcade a few times, and I feel like I am basically done with the game. Online and the possibility of going after every trophy is the only thing that might possibly call me back to the game.
The Kombo Challenge is more frustration that it is worth, so unless it is to get amazing with one fighter, I probably wont attempt these.
From what I have read online seems like it failed.
There is no reason to go through the story mode twice unless I feel the urge to watch the videos again, which I would frankly rather watch without fighting in between.
Thanks to the short story mode in which you fail to play all the characters, I have no clue what it is like to play as Baraka/Deathstroke/Kitana/Catwoman/Kano/Kahn/Darkseid and whoever else was unplayable in story mode. So unless I go through arcade or online with these guys, I probably wont ever play as them. The average fan who bought this game will not go through arcade with every fighter, so they most likely will never play as those characters either.
Here is to hoping they get the next MK game correct..........
Here is a list of the good, the bad, and everything in between from my opinion.
The Good:
1. Story mode videos - simply amazing. Graphics looked great from sub-zero's breathing to the veins popping out of muscles.
2. Graphics - Every character looks great before during and after fight mode.
3. Transitions - I was very glad to see them transition right into the fight rather than a loading screen in between.
4. Uniform Damage Retention - Huge plus to see these guys take damage for once.
5. Sonya Glitch - When I defeated Sonya with The Joker, half of her top turned into her skin color. I thought I saw nipple for a second.
Good/Bad/Had Potential:
1. Klose Kombat - I liked it alot, but seems that it is done very rarely.
2. Falling Kombat - loved this, except for the fact that I would get 4 hits in, then it would be reversed and my opponent gets credit for 25-30% damage. It is like my 4 hits in the beginning never took place.
3. Dark Kahn - While, he was decent, I still feel cheated a bit; like they could have done so much more with the potential of Darkseid/Shao Kahn combining.
4. Fatalities - Classic MK ones were good since they had to keep it T, but the Brutality crap was just repetitive and boring.
The Bad:
1. Endings - While some of the stories are cool, the one picture with a brief description is pretty weak. With the awesomeness of the story mode videos, they have these as endings? Seriously?
2. Kombo Challenge - Whos idea was this? These are beyond hard and while they can be accomplished with practice, the average fan will give up after a few tries. What the hell is with the brief pause crap? Huge fail here Midway.
3. Story Mode - While the story was decent, you only get to play as 7/11 of the characters from each side.
4. No Unlockables - No concept art? No video bios? All we get is Kahn and Darkseid, which I'm happy about, but still they could have given us a reason besides trophies to keep playing.
5. No mini-game or anything similar - Chess/Puzzle Kombat/Conquest/Kart - These were all small and very unnecessary additions (besides conquest) that extended the play of the game by hours for most people.
6. Joker Fatality - I go away for a month thinking they pushed the T rating with the sick Joker fatality that was released earlier to find out it sucks now.
7. Quan Chi - Why was he not in the game? Besides the little Green lantern martian people and Deathstrokes random victim, he was the only character we saw that was unplayable. Kano was virtually useless. Quan Chi should have replaced Kano. Hell he had more video time than Kano anyways.
Overall, even though my grade counts from shit, I would give it a C+ or a 7/10. Seems like yet again they rushed this game onto shelves and used the marketability of Batman/Scorpion/Joker/Superman/Etc... to sell copies. So much potential with so much left on the table....
It is about 24 hours since I picked up the game and I already beat the story modes, went through arcade a few times, and I feel like I am basically done with the game. Online and the possibility of going after every trophy is the only thing that might possibly call me back to the game.
The Kombo Challenge is more frustration that it is worth, so unless it is to get amazing with one fighter, I probably wont attempt these.
From what I have read online seems like it failed.
There is no reason to go through the story mode twice unless I feel the urge to watch the videos again, which I would frankly rather watch without fighting in between.
Thanks to the short story mode in which you fail to play all the characters, I have no clue what it is like to play as Baraka/Deathstroke/Kitana/Catwoman/Kano/Kahn/Darkseid and whoever else was unplayable in story mode. So unless I go through arcade or online with these guys, I probably wont ever play as them. The average fan who bought this game will not go through arcade with every fighter, so they most likely will never play as those characters either.
Here is to hoping they get the next MK game correct..........
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