![]() The fighting itself, although gimmicky, is fun for an afternoon. ![]() Each fighter also has the classic '-ality' trademark- seven times!: Two fatalities, one brutality, one friendship (finally! A fighting game where you can be ‘just friends’), one babality, and of course you have the mysterious animality. Who knows what happened? Maybe CD-ROM technology for the modern-day PC has grown to keep up with what the Mortal Kombat engine needs? Not only does the game present crisp, loud CD-quality music and sound effects, but it MOVES as fluidly as it would from a cartridge?Īnd what better MK game to start off this new impressive NO-LOADING technology than Mortal Kombat Trilogy? The game sports over 40 fighters from the first three Mortal Kombats- even the bosses (Goro, Kintaro, Motaro, and Shao Kahn) are playable straight from the character select screen. Mortal Kombat Trilogy for the PC is a Godsend. This is not the way Mortal Kombat is supposed to be played. And may God have mercy on us all if you face a player that has their strategy revolving around Shang Tsung and his morphing powers. Ten to twenty second loading times before rounds, and five second loading times just before a fatality. So what do you get? Fights pause abruptly, freezing up the game while loading the next sound effect. ![]() Whether it's Shang Tsung and his power to morph into other fighters (with all of their moves, combos, AND fatalities), or the changing battlegrounds and background music, the MK engine, at most times, is too fast for the CD-ROM. Believe it or not, behind all that 'button-mashing' and 'one-dimensional gameplay', there is a game engine hard at work, constantly loading new material into the fight. The CD-ROM format has not been kind to the Mortal Kombat franchise. Whether it's Shang Tsung and his power to morph into other fighters (with all of their moves, combos, AND fatalities), or the changing battlegrounds and background music, the MK engine, at most times, is too fast for the CD-ROM." "The CD-ROM format has not been kind to the Mortal Kombat franchise.
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