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Mortal Kombat Advance is the Game Boy Advance port of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.
The game was released at the tail end of 2001 with the same character roster as its 16-bit counterparts. Due to the Game Boy Advance featuring only four buttons—two less than the six-button system UMK3 relied on—many special move sequences were consolidated or changed. The game's violence (namely, the amount of blood) was toned down slightly due to the Advances's younger userbase. The reduced memory of the Advance furthered limited the port: each character (except for Noob Saibot and the bosses) has only one Fatality and one Friendship. The final sequence, in which the castle of Shao Kahn explodes is completely absent from the game. Shao Kahn's Lost Treasures and Stage Fatalities were also cut. The Stages The Subway, Balcony, Bridge, Bell Tower, The Temple, Graveyard, Jade's Desert, and Waterfront were not included and while the stage Lost Bridge appears in the background of the tower select, it is not playable.
Story
The game's story is pretty much the same as that of Mortal Kombat 3, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat Trilogy.
Defeated by the warriors of Earth, Shao Kahn decides to resurrect the Queen of Edenia, Sindel. At this point, he attacks the Earth with all his soldiers and advisers. The Earth is in danger and Raiden assembles all possible warriors to counter this threat.
Reception
Mortal Kombat Advance was heavily criticized for a variety of reasons. The port's unresponsive and condensed control scheme (due to the Advance's four-button input) and the wildly increased CPU difficulty led to the game being near-universally panned by critics;[1] Other complaints were targeted at the port's graphical downgrades and wonky hitboxes.
Electronic Gaming Monthly editor Dan Hsu gave it the first "0" rating in the magazine's history and in 2014, GamesRadar included Advance as their 13th worst game of all time.[2] It currently has an aggregated rank of 33% at Metacritic.[3] The poor ratings class Advance as one of the series' worst entries, alongside Mortal Kombat: Special Forces.
Playable characters
- Classic Sub-Zero
- Cyrax
- Ermac
- Human Smoke
- Jade
- Jax
- Kabal
- Kano
- Kitana
- Kung Lao
- Liu Kang
- Mileena
- Noob Saibot
- Nightwolf
- Rain
- Reptile
- Scorpion
- Sektor
- Shang Tsung
- Sindel
- Cyber Smoke
- Sonya
- Stryker
- Sub-Zero
Bosses
Boss
Sub-Boss
Secrets and tricks
Three hidden characters can be used by completing any tower other than Novice. The hidden characters are Human Smoke (Warrior), Motaro (Master) and Shao Kahn (Grand Master).
Codebreaker Codes
320001A8 0001: Unlock Human Smoke.
320001A8 0002: Unlock Motaro.
320001A8 0003: Unlock Shao Kahn.
32000020 0028: Infinite Health for player one.
32000088 0028: Infinite Health for player two.
320001AC 0063: Infinite time.
- ↑ Craig Harris (2002-01-10). Mortal Kombat Advance. IGN. Archived from the original on 2020-12-12.
- ↑ The 50 worst games of all time. GamesRadar. Archived from the original on 2020-08-26.
- ↑ Mortal Kombat Advance (Game Boy Advance). Metacritic. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05.