The biggest draw about this game is that it plays like the N64 AKI wrestling games. THAT is exactly what a lot of wrestling game fans have been asking for since. I've never liked the gameplay of ANY wrestling game since WWF No Mercy. That's the important thing about this game.
Characters and match types can be added. Fans of those AKI wrestling games also spend a lot of time creating characters.
People have been trying to recreate those AKI games in various ways. Like Pro Wrestling X for example.
WWE wrestling games can have all the content in the world, but if the gameplay stinks like the Smackdown series always has and every WWE game since. It's meaningless.
A lot of the contents of this review isn't based on reality in terms of having less content making this a deal breaker and it won't stop the game getting a pretty big following.
What a terrible ranking. MK9, 10 and 11 would stay in that order as 3, 2 and 1.
Mortal Kombat 1, 2 and 3 would be near the bottom probably 11, 10 and 9. Even compared to 4. They're not like SF2, the combat system does not hold up in any way. I tried to replay MK2 only a few days ago.
The only ones that can be debated are the order of Mortal Kombat 4, Deadly Alliance, Deception, Armageddon and MK vs DC in the middle, because those games while varying in quality are still fully playable. The first 3 games are not really even playable, but the last 3 games to be released were actually REALLY good and made Mortal Kombat a real contender.
Personally I'd list it starting at 11 and ending at 1:
1, 2, 3, 4, Armageddon, Deadly Alliance, Deception, MK vs DC, 9, 10 and 11.
I've had this for some time. It works best for Wii games through the Wii U. Although it had difficulty improving RE4 Wii Edition, perhaps the image was too messy in the intro wood area. It does do a fantastic job with Wii games though, so if you have a large collection. I have about 50 Wii games.
It doesn't do much for the Ps2, because the images are blurred a bit like the N64, so it has trouble detecting what it needs to in the image.
In theory will work well with the PS1, because the image is sharp. I forgot to test that though.
It won't do much for the Wii U or Switch. It doesn't do much for Skyward Sword on the Wii, probably because of the CELL Shading, but it doesn't really need it.
Problem is, Gamepass is an all or nothing direction and MS went all in, the right way. Sony can't half ass it or dip their toes in, it won't work. If they do this, they have to commit. And this is where having the service as a hardware exclusive is a detriment as they can't maximise potential revenue as easily and they're going to want to, with this sort of model. So it might be a bit of a gamble for them. We'll see.
@pcps4xb: I think when Xcloud comes to Windows 10 PC later this year, it'll be a lot easier for MS to allow more games from Gamepass to come to the PC earlier, likely with the downloadable versions coming later when they can.
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