UMK3 for the Nintendo DS plays and feels close enough to the arcade original.

User Rating: 7 | Ultimate Mortal Kombat DS
By DIDDYBOY97 | Review Date:
In the past, 16-bit fighting games were a little bit more than novelties. With only a few exceptions, Genesis and Mega Drive system's fighting ports were sometimes, dirty, ugly, unfinished versions of their arcade counterparts complete with poor sound. But as systems became more powerful, the arcade fighting game ports skyrocketed. Since then, we've recieved games like Killer Instinct on the SNES and Virtua Fighter for the Sega 32X, all of which systems proved they could at least handle a decent fighting game.

Now, let's get into the actual game, especially since now it looks like I'm talking to myself. The graphics are just a bit scaled down from the arcade version, nevertheless it looks pretty motherfuucking close. Sure, they may have been distorted a bit, but they all look great on the small screen and most importantly, they play just perfectly. 9.5/10


The sound is just basically the exact same sound from the arcade original surprisingly! Not really much to say here, 'ey? 10/10

The gameplay is pretty good as well. Be warned; for although the first two fights are easy, on the third fight it starts to kick it into bullshiit difficulty, where it just reacts to everything you do. 5.9/10.

Overall, I'd still recommend this game nonetheless. Overall: 7/10.

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