Title: Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance
Platform: Xbox [also available for PS2 and GC]
Price: 49.99
All throughout the ninties, three names owned the fighting genre of gaming. Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, and Mortal Kombat. As fighters began to evolve into 3D games such as Tekken, MK stayed tried and true to their 2D spritely ways. But one day Tobias and Boon realized that the journey up flat image road had ended and it was time to get polygonal.
Thus MK4 and MK Gold hit the store shelves. Sadly, they were 3D but lacked free movement. The only way to actually move in your 3D environment other than back and forth was to hit a button and sidestep. This was however a big movement in MK history and progress. Then the games vanished after the release of the Gameboy cart for MK4.
Years passed� and then in fall of 2002 we received word of a new MK game. A game in which you could move freely in your environment, bruise your oponent, and experience a REAL fighting game.
Those rumors turned out to be half-cocked but still founded. We got MKDA and it proved to be an intriguing experience more than an exilerating slugfest.
The fighting is standard but not as excellent as we�d expected, and the music can get annoying at times. However this does prove to be a solid fighter though not worth the full 50 dollars�.
Graphics: Well, in a word: �improved. They�re not spectacular but wow, our fighting masters Tobias and Boon have indeed given us something nice to look at and in turn beat the life out of. It is very interesting that you can kick someone in the face and their character will actually become bruised from it, an effect we have not previously seen in a game.
8.5
Sound: The same old grunts and groans pass the digital lips of our fighters and the classic Emperor�s disembodied voice tells us how superb or pathetic we are. Nothing new there. An uninteresting soundtrack proves for an annoying experience while we fight� but then is music really what brutal, pointless fighting is about?
7.5
Worth: Well from the moment you hear that Liu Kang is dead you want to turn off the game� but if you did that you wouldn�t get to enjoy all the fighting, Konquests (mini tutorials for each character that earn you Koins), and the Krypt where you can buy from like literally hundreds if not thousands of extras, sketches, costumes, characters, and other goodies. It�s not the greatest fighter around but this is proof that our MK developers are not out of the game just yet.
8.5