Before its recent shocking fall, Acclaim was one of the few publishers who made great games to scotch you on the sofa in the early nineties, like the Double dragon franchise for instance. Mortal Kombat II fortunately was no exception, the game came with a helluva good graphics that makes you play just because the game looks good. I don't even start talking about the sound, it's an amazing work that not even only a mortal kombat fan would appreciate but also any "connaisseur" in games. Oh! did I mention fatalities? Well here you're going to be served, there's a lot of fatalities, bability( you turn your opponent into a baby) and friendship( you kinda give your opponent a gift, you know a happy-birthday-stuff) I must say bability and friendship did suck, MK franchise was going way outta control with those two finishing moves, they've been wise to drop them in Deadly Alliance and Deception. The memoriable touch in MK is a the end of a finishing move, you'd hear the heavy voice of Shao-Khan saying for example:" Lu Keng wins, Fatality", it's a nice touch they kept it, I hope they keep going on that track.
Very few games have extracted the amount of play time I invested in MK2. At the time of release, this was the pinnacle of fighting games. Great characters, great moves, great balance, great background scenery, awesome tw... Read Full Review
Where should I start? This game took everything the first MK had and built up on it while making cool improvements to the smoothness of the fighting system. Graphics - A hell of a lot better quality of sprites than th... Read Full Review
