Competitive Mortal Kombat at its best.

User Rating: 10 | Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 ARC
By PWXShock | Review Date:
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is the most complete, balanced, developed, deep and competitive game in the entire MK genre. Because of its 2D system, which was still the norm in the mid 90s, you have to take the game at face value. It is built upon the core system set up by Mortal Kombat, which was improved in MKII, improved again in MK3, and then nearly perfected in UMK3. I say nearly because by the time the game had run its course and was no longer eligible for gameplay updates, more pieces of the system were broken down and a few character specific elements were left unfixed. This however, does not affect the gameplay nearly as much as almost all other fighting games.

My difficulty rating of "Very Hard" is because the game is designed to be played against another person, and not the AI. The AI is poorly programmed in the sense, you cannot actually fight them, you have to trick them and figure out the AI patterns which are extremely simple, and many are universal. There are methods for defeating every character in the game which are fool proof, so that would make the game "very easy," however, playing another person and becoming good at this game is not. It takes years to master the mechanics of this game, which is why there are still people who play it.

If you are nostalgic, like MK in general but never tried it, or are just looking for a game to pick up, I would suggest UMK3, and finding others who play it. There are still arcade units for this all over the country, and tournaments run on a regular basis.

To learn more about this game, visit www.ultimatemk.com/forum and receive tips from professional Mortal Kombat players.

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