What Gamespot Users have to say about Mortal Kombat

  • Rating:9.6

    Birth of a legend...

    As the pretty much the first fighting game with gore, Mortal Kombat is a classic. Many great games and even two movies all came from this game. It's funny that Mortal Kombat was supposed to be a quick project to make a l... Read Full Review

    3 of 3 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:9

    "...Mortal Kombat offers a great fighting experience..."

    Mortal Kombat for the Genesis set the stage for fighting games we all enjoy today. As the evolution of fighting games, Mortal Kombat is cleary the single outstanding fighting game ever made. The game's graphics are ok... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.2

    Quite possibly the first real fighting game and still one of the best.

    Although this game is showing age, it's still a timeless classic in the mind of any fan of fighting games, Mortal Kombat started it all, with it's brutal fatalities and great combos. This game started a new genre and rai... Read Full Review

    1 of 6 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7.5

    great fighter not much else

    the game play is very good but can get repetitive not good for those who play games over and over again the graphics are not good at all but thats the way itr was back then so yes for it's time its gresat as for the so... Read Full Review

    1 of 6 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7

    Great fighter... Not much else

    Mortal Kombat 1. A game that came out when I was 2 has become an all time classic. Even though it's a classic and it 's pretty fun, it's just not quite what it could've been. This game is just like Street Fighter, the... Read Full Review

    0 of 4 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:9.5

    Brutal fatalities make this game worthy of being purchased.

    Everybody had always played fighting games, Killer Instinct for instance, and they have been pretty good. But when Mortal Kombat came out it kicked it up a notch. With it's gory graphics it made the ersb system and made ... Read Full Review

    1 of 3 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:9

    In the year 2004, there will plenty of Fighters that makes the MK series look terrible! However, going 10 years back, MK was the game that defined the fighting game genre. Why? the formula is pretty simple; take the b... Read Full Review

    2 of 4 users found the following review helpful