I was more bothered by the hypocrisy behind those ideas considering DC Comics spent years filling their comics with brutal gore. Honestly, I was never too bothered by the controversial bloodless Fatalities and “Heroic Brutalities” in this game. MK 4 even dropped the classic text endings in favor of questionable cutscenes. This game’s melee weapons were at least a good start toward a great idea, but they can only do so much. The developers even had to implement a combo-stopping system to make up for their inability to program around infinite combos. The new things this game’s 3D engine allowed for just couldn’t make up for the title’s other flaws. With it came a cast of new characters who were either incredibly boring or laughably derivative. For instance, Midway decided to follow their excellent 2D Mortal Kombat 3 games with the scaled-down, and downright ugly, 3D fighter, Mortal Kombat 4. For every Mario game that got it right, it feels like there’s an Earthworm Jim and a Castlevania that got it laughably wrong. The late-’90s obsession over converting nearly every popular gaming franchise to 3D is tough to look back at. It was barely coherent, but hey, at least it gave us Tremor. What we got instead was a sloppy and borderline unplayable collection of mazes and endless bland action. Even Kabal, a major member of the villains’ team, got cut. Originally, it was supposed to be an action game where you play as both Jax and Sonya (it was even depicted as such on a magazine cover) but the whole thing was thrown together so fast that Sonya ended up being cut without so much of an explanation. This is one of those games that was rushed out the door in an unfinished state. I’m also only counting standalone Mortal Kombat games and not games with Mortal Kombat guest appearances. There’s no real reason to separate Mortal Kombat 3 from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, for instance. As mentioned, all of these are being lumped together with their upgraded versions. So, as Baraka pulls out the Friendship birthday present to help celebrate the occasion, let’s take a look at the Mortal Kombat video game series from worst to best. Eleven of them are straight-up fighting games and three of them are spinoffs of varying quality. When you consolidate all the series’ ports and upgrades, you end up with fourteen unique entries.
Oh, and there have also been a bunch of Mortal Kombat video games. During that time we’ve been treated to three live-action Mortal Kombat movies, a live-action TV show, a Saturday morning cartoon, a novel, several comic books, a live tour, four animated movies, and a hilarious handful of imitators.
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