Mortal Kombat X PS4 Review

History of Mortal Kombat Series:

In year 1992, Midway Games brought their first 2D fighting game to the arcade system. Mortal Kombat is the 2D fighting game, which created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. The game is very known for having controversial content of the game, such as gruesome violence introducing finishing moves called "Fatality" and using realistic digitised graphics that gives many of gamers attention. It is one of the best 2D fighting classics of all time that defines fighting game's genre had becoming most popular fighting games in history. It is later released for console version by Acclaim Entertainment, which the game had becoming best selling game and giving SEGA Genesis one of the best version of the game beating SNES version is due to blood codes are included on SEGA Genesis version except SNES version. 

With the success of first game, they later making sequels, such as Mortal Kombat 2, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Mortal Kombat 4, MK: Deadly Alliance, MK: Deception, MK: Armageddon, and MK vs DC Universe is the last game made by Midway Games before the Netherrealm Studio will take over the MK franchises, which they later made the reboot called "Mortal Kombat" in year 2011 and gained more positive reviews from video game critics and being awarded as best fighting game of the year 2011.

Mortal Kombat series has many memorable rosters, brilliant gameplay controls, gruesome graphics, and has the best fatalities moves in fighting game history.

Today, I'm going to review Mortal Kombat X for PS4 version to see if this game is good as the Mortal Kombat from 2011's.

Mortal Kombat X PS4 Review

Mortal Kombat X is a fighting game for PS4, XBONE, and PC developed by Netherrealms Studio, while High Voltage Software are going to release PS3 and X360 version later in September and it is also published by Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment.

This game is definitely the best fighting games of 2015 is because the developers shows how awesome this game is and giving more efforts to make a superb fighting game up to date, such as overall presentation, soild gameplay fighting mechanics, and more additional content of the game that the developers has to offer.  

This game offers wide range of gameplay mechanics system introducing characters variations. This game contains story mode, versus mode, tower mode, online battle, and krypt mode to unlock useful items. It is also introducing faction wars, where the players chooses one from 5 faction to join online cross-platform competition to gain ranking and special points. 

I really enjoyed the whole MK experience of this game that giving more atmosphere to make game so exciting to play.  

Presentation

This game takes place after the event of MK 2011 with the defeat of Shao Kahn, Shinnok sends his army of Netherrealms demons to destroy Earthrealms with under Quan Chi's control before he was captured by Raiden using Shinnok's amulet that trapped him inside, while Quan Chi escapes.

In twenty years later after Shinnok's defeat, Johnny cage's teams of fighters (Such as Cassie, Takeda, Jacqui, and Kung Jin) were been sent in Outworld to resolve civil war plot between former empress milenna, who has obtained Shinnok's amulet from Kano, and Outworld's emperor Kotal Kahn.

The presentation of the game has well made storyplot with great cinematic cutscenes and well detailed story development that made story mode so amazing to watch the whole scenes with magnificent character's plotholes of the game. The characters in the whole game are still brilliant too as well as the new roster in the game are nearly quite good as the returning characters from the previous game.   

Gameplay

The gameplay has amazing fighting mechanics. You can choose their 3 character's variations to perform different variety of moveset during the battle, which is cool to select any different fighting style. It has responsive controls are perfect for basic attacks, special moves and combo moves works very well in the gameplay with no issues at all. You can perform X-Ray as another special moves, which shows opponent's body getting crunched by the players looked really awesome during the fight. The fatality moves including brutalities and faction kill is still looked bloody amazing to see opponent getting gutted and killed by the players, but it is still shame that the babalities, animalities, and friendship are also missing in the game, but it would have been sounds nice to include these three as downloadable content. You can also purchase 30 easy fatalities as DLC, which it should have been sound better with infinity easy fatalities rather than having to pay a DLC to get 30 easy fatalities.  

I did enjoy the story mode playing as each of the characters in the game is quite fun to play and the tower mode has classic single player modes, endless mode, survival mode, test your luck mode, and test your might are the best part of the game that made me enjoy the MK experiences. The versus mode has 2 player battle offline and online are also good as well. It does have training sessions where you have to learn and practice to play the game, such as tutorial and practice mode are very useful to learn your experiences on fighting game. Faction Wars is useful to earn points and ranking to gain more experiences of this game.

I say this game has solid fighting mechanics and it has more game modes to play with makes Mortal Kombat X worth playing.

Graphics

Despite using Unreal Engine 3, the graphics environment in the game still looked pretty amazing with crispy cutscenes, great character's environment with well designed 3D models, decent visuals with well rendered effects on backgrounds, the textures looks more detailed and the whole animation runs really well with 60 FPS and 1080p to keep the game up to date. 

It's still look good as the Mortal Kombat 2011's, but it didn't make much differences from the previous game. Overall, this game still has the bloodiest graphics on fighting games history. 

Music and Sounds

Mortal Kombat X does have impressive original soundtrack for every fighting stages and cinematic cutscenes gives a darker feel of the game that fits very well for presentation and during gameplay battle and it has very atmospheric sounds with fantastic sound effects and background sounds is just sounds right for fighting stages. 

The voice cast did a great job on each characters with quality voices and better dialogues for story presentation and gameplay stages is just makes perfect sounding for this game.

Special Features  

This game has krypt mode where you have to go and find items to unlock, which I believe it has lot of unlockable content, such as artwork, more fatalities on moves list, music track, and etc. The downloadable content has unlockable characters (such as Goro, Tanya, Tremor and of course it has 2 guest chararcters Jason Voorhees and Predator) , classics fatalities, character's costumes, and etc. 

Advantages

Soild Gameplay

Amazing Graphics

Impressive Music and Sounds

Awesome character roster

More unlockable stuff 

Fantastic Presentation

Disadvantages

Missing babalities, animalities and friendship.

Missing 3 playable characters (Such as Sindel, Rain, and Baraka) unless it would have been sound awesome to make them available as playable DLC roster in future. 

Easy fatalities should have been stayed infinity instead of having to pay 30 easy fatalities from the downloadable store.

Final Verdict

Presentation 8/10 - Well made storyplot and awesome characters.

Gameplay 8.5/10 - Soild fighting mechanics with well made controls, more variety of character's moveset, and easier to execute special moves makes gameplay played brilliant.

Graphics 8/10 -  Crispy cutscenes, great character's environment, decent visuals, detailed textures, and well made animation.

Music and sounds 8.3/10 - Impressive soundtrack, atmospheric sounds, and  great voice acting for characters.

Special Features 9/10 - More unlockables and downloadable content.

Overall 8.5/10 - It is the best fighting games in 2015. Mortal Kombat X has got everything right with having more variety of gameplay, making the presentation sounds amazing, the graphics is still looked more detailed, and it is still the most brutal fighting games for modern consoles day.

For all the gamers out there, who are into with gruesome games, should able to go pick this game up for PS4, XBONE, and PC, while for PS3 and X360 owners should have to wait this game to release on this September.     

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