AUTHOR: Midway / Arena RELEASE: 1994 TYP: Beat'em Up SPIELER: 2 LEVEL: - SPRACHE: Englisch WERT: 20€

Mach dich bereit für Mortal Kombat auf Mega CD: Größer. Besser. Lauter. Härter. Unglaubliche, markerschütternde Grafiken, neue Animationen und ein aufregender Soundtrack bieten dir all die brandheiße und eisig-coole Action des Arcade-Hits Nr. 1! Auf in den Kampf!

Prepare yourself for Mortal Kombat on Mega CD: Bigger. Better. Louder. Meaner. Incredible bone-shattering graphics, new animations and pulse-pounding soundtrack give you the all flame-shooting, ice-blasting action of the #1 arcade smash! Let the tournament begin!.

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The game that sold so many Megadrives (due to the highly sanitised Nintendo version) comes to the Mega CD in a mixture of ups and downs. The game opens with low-quality digitised rendition of the MK TV advert, featuring a mixture of teenagers running through the streets interspersed with game footage. The back of the box claims enhanced graphics and perhaps the sprites are a little larger and more fluid, but the difference is negligible apart from a few animated character screens that used to be static. The sound has improved thanks to a CD audio soundtrack and speech but this means that it sometimes take the music a couple of seconds to realise a fight is over and play the victory jingle. Sadly this is even more pronounced when a fatality is performed - you can hear the CD searching for the animation and tune. Control with 3 buttons is difficult - a 6-button pad is certainly a benefit here - but you can't pause the game mid-fight with either and there's a slight sluggishness in response that wasn't in the cart version. The other major change is that the blood and gore is turned on from the outset, though the DULLARD cheat (remember that code, sorry, „kode“?) is still present and bizarrely you can turn the blood off if you wish. The first of the series is the simplest, and some feel that later editions were overly complex and fast which isn't a problem here. The „Test your Might“ levels after every third fight which were scrapped after this game are included as a slight distraction between battles. On balance there's nothing to recommend this over the cartridge version, which may explain why none of the other 3 Megadrive Mortal Kombat titles were ported to the Mega-CD. www.sega-mega-cd-library.co.uk

Five Hundred years ago, an ancient and well respected Shaolin fighting tournament, held every 50 years, was corrupted by an evil and elderly sorcerer by the name of Shang Tsung. Shang was accompanied by Prince Goro, a warrior of the Shokan race (a four armed half-human/half-dragon). Knowing that if ten tournaments in a row were won by the Outworld champion, the Earth Realm would be conquered by evil and fall into darkness, Shang entered Goro in the tournament and had him defeat the great Kung Lao. Goro has been reigning supreme as the undefeated fighting champion for five hundred years now. As the last tournament required draws near, Raiden, Thunder God and protector of the Earth Realm, enacts a plan to tip the scales in the humans favor, Seven fighters step into the arena on Shang Tsung's mysterious island: Shaolin warrior Liu Kang, Special Forces operative Sonya Blade, the mercenary thug Kano, fame-seeking actor Johnny Cage, the ice wielding Lin Kuei warrior Sub-Zero and his undead adversary Scorpion, and Raiden himself. Mortal Kombat is a side-scrolling 1 on 1 fighting game. Fighting is set as one on one kombat, allowing each player to perform a variety of punches, kicks, and special moves in order to defeat their opponent. When the opponent faces their second round loss, the winner can perform a finishing move called a „Fatality“ on the loser. The Fatality is a humiliation move that graphically kills the loser in a blood-soaked finale. Mortal Kombat began its life as a 2-player arcade title. It is notable for its use of digitized actors to represent the game's fighters, as well as its use of copious amounts of blood during gameplay. www.Mobygames.com