The fusion of your three favorite fighting games into one... or is it? Lacking elements from MK1 and MK2 but still fun.
They brought back classic stages from MK1 and MK2 where you can battle, but some are still missing (Palace Gates, Warrior Shrine, the Throne Room - maybe a few others I forgot to mention). The biggest let down is they didn't take the time to create new animated sprites so you can perform the Pit II fatality! That was weak. There are quite a handful of glitches in the game, and the unorignality of this game seeps through the Mortal Kombat's pores. The fatalities that were missing for some characters in UMK3 are present here, but they aren't that great. The friendships and animalities for many new characters are the worst of all. I don't know the legal jumbo behind it all, but it would have been nice if they brought back sprites from MK1 and other characters from MK2 (instead of just Kano, Jax, Raiden, Kung Lao, and Baraka). I mean, I thought Midway owned the rights to MK so why can't they reuse old sprites? Just because the actors don't work for them anymore? Give me a break....
The sounds of this game for characters like Goro and Kintaro do not sound at all like their orignal selves in MK1 and MK2. They didn't bother giving bosses fatalities. The music for the stages in this game don't even match MK1 and MK2. So it doesn't really seem right at all.
The graphics just plain SUCK. This is a PC port, why the hell don't they think it can handle the graphics and sound quality of arcades? It made me feel like I was playing on a SNES emulator, I swear to god. This was the BIGGEST let down of MK Trilogy for PC. Not even the PSX had good graphics. What the hell?
The only thing that makes this game good is the fact you get an ass load of characters (and a new character Chameleon) to play with and some (SOME) interresting new cheats. But none of the aewsome cheats from MK3 or UMK3 make a return here. (hyper fighting, all that good stuff).
After a while you will get extremely bored with this game. The wonderful AI will turn you off from playing singleplayer. This game would be great if they redid it with crisp and perfect Arcade graphics and sound effects, and released other 2D characers from MK Mythologies Sub-Zero (Sareena, Quan Chi, etc etc). They could have made this game awesome but they did the old fashion MK trick: great advertising, build up the hype, release the darn game.
It's fun when you play with friends... that's it.