Which Mortal Kombat game is the Best?

I've been looking at the reviews for Mortal Kombat Armeggedon and Mortal Kombat Deception, but I just cannot decide which one is a better buy!

Gamespot gave Deception a higher rating, but Armeggedon has more characters. I love the series and I don't want to waste my money and buy both. Please give me your opinoin on which one I should get. Thank you

Deception is was the up to date classic version of MK.   You fight, you do fatties,  you have a couple of mini games.

Armageddon lets you make custom fighters but doesnt actually let you use them in any of the modes except versus which is stupid.  They stripped out all the individual fatties and now you just get to create your own fatties by ripping off arms and legs and stabbing people and ripping parts out.   The parts for the character creater are also really lacking in costumes and special moves so there are some characters you cant even recreate.  It was a half %#@ed attempt to do what Soul Calibur3 did with its create a character.

Shaolin Monks has the best freaking combat engine MK has ever used.  Unfortunately there isnt really your standard versus mode.  Its more of a 3 qauter view that plays like an arcade game.   And even though you get to play as 4 different people they didnt bother to make new cinema's for the other characters so you will be playing as one guy and during the cinema's you are somebody else lol.  

So in my opinion Deception was the last COMPLETE version of an MK game.   Armageddon and Shaolin Monks were both incomplete rushed crap versions.   Although getting to create your own combos is pretty sweet.  To bad the specials and outfits were so limited.  But even then you have nothing to do with them except play arcade mode and earn money to unlock stuff which doesnt take very long. 

I have always hated MK as a fighting game and I probably always will but I freaking love the character backgrounds and how fleshed out the MK universe is.  For that reason I will keep trying them out.  I even made the mistake of buying Deception and armageddon brand new =/.    There is so much potential for MK. 

I'd say not to get any of them though.  You only need SC3 and DBZ BT2.

there is no good mortal kombat

every game is bad

but in my opinion the best one

thats u make adventure not fighting

i forget its name :(

I think Deception is the overall better game. The other gameplay modes (Chess Kombat, Puzzle Kombat) are both better than Armageddon's Motor Kombat, in my opinion. It also has a better story complete with character endings that have artwork for every character. Although, Armageddon does have every character, a better Konquest mode, and a cool create-a-fighter mode. Both versions are online, though more people are probably playing Armageddon. It's pretty close between the two, but I do think Deception is a better game.KewDrew

That pretty much sums up my exact feelings also. Having every fighter in the series' history made Armageddon irresistable to me. I don't regret getting it, but I definitely miss having the characters' "real" fatalities, and I find the create-a-fatality system a poor substitute.

deception for its cheaper price.

Deception

of the ps2 gams, Deception is the best.

Dealy alliance was good, and deception made the fighting systembetter. The mini games are also alot of fun.

Amageddon just seems to fall flat. there are less fighting styles, so the characters are more generic. The style branch combos seem to have been taken out, aswell.

Deception is the way to go

My self i have both and can tell u that armageddon is the best. It is because it has all the characters of the MK universe, it has a more challenging Konquest mode, and u can create your own character to fight with in arcade mode and online.

Ultimate MK 3 for the SNES. the series only went down hill from there
dante_123456

I would pick up Deception just because it stayed true to the MK roots, character designs, and fatalities...

Although if you are looking for the best Mortal Kombat Games overall get the old ones for the Sega Genisis or the SNES.

Mortal kombat is a game better left to "back in the day" recollections than it is for playing it now. when I was young I thought mk2 was awesome but now I look at it and it seems pathetic. Which is odd as most of the 2d fighters of that time have aged really well.. but for me mk misses somehow.