User blog:NaveNinja/Arcade Kollection - Thoughts

I thought this was a very nice collection, but the graphics were terrible. All digitized actors. Are we seriously still doing that in this day and age? It's nowhere near as good as the latest Mortal Kombat game, and that came out before this collection. I was majorly disappointed by this. It's like the three games in this collection came out in the 90's (92, 93 and 95, to be exact).

So I played the game "Mortal Kombat" in the collection (ripping off the title of the new game, the much superior one with the good graphics) and I gotta say, this one is the weakest of the bunch. No animalities or Shao Kahn or hardly anything was in this. Not to mention, Sonya doesn't look a thing like she's supposed to. The Sonya in this game wears modest, functional clothing. She's supposed to wear slutty, revealing, unrealistic clothing. And since this is the first game in the collection, I must ask: Who the hell is their spellchecker? It's spelt COMBAT, with a C. The school system in our country is so bad, even the video games are affected.

So then we get "Mortal Kombat II" which is slightly better, but still really lame. There's only three playable main ninjas, when there should be somewhere around twenty. Where's Rain? Where's Tremor? I'm insulted that the programmers chose not to include such classic characters in these games like Kobra, Ashrah and Onaga. Where were Sektor and Cyrax during this game? Getting high? The story makes no sense.

Now, you'd think that "Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3" would be the best of the bunch, but you'd be wrong. The Konquest mode in this game is non-existant, and Chess Kombat and Motor Kombat are, for some unfathomable reason, excluded. This game comes CLOSE to being passable, but it lacks something very important: crossover characters. This game is doomed to fail unless it brings in some big-name fighters from other series and gets rid of some of its lamer characters (Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Nightwolf to name just a few). In fact, every character should just be a ninja. This game can be saved, but only when they release the updated version: Super Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Turbo Hyper Fighting: HD Remix.

All-in-all, I'd recommend buying this game only if you want to seem "cool" and "hip" for owning the latest "retro" game series collection, but honestly, nobody is going to be impressed. Not when Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus is still the most superior fighting game on the market.