(sega mega drive & genesis classics 50/58)
played as Jetta Maxx
It's a bad Mortal Kombat clone, and early MKs in single player are already not fun at all to begin with. AI isn't quite as dreadful here, but there are no difficulty settings and losing sends you back a round for some reason. Good fucking luck if you're on a three button controller.
That said, there's a lot going for it in other departments. It looks good, the roster is actually not that bad, and each character has a surprising amount of backstory. If you care about fatalities, those are here, and in the Sega CD version they're considerably more gruesome than anything to come out of the 2D Mortal Kombat era.
I dunno, I wish this was better. I'm far from competent at fighting games and not exactly to be trusted with opinions on them, but I think if Sega decided to hop off Mortal Kombat's already mediocre dick whilst developing this than it could have had more of an identity of its own, and maybe there could be further, more polished entries as well. But alas, as is it sits in the same pile as games like Time Killers and Tattoo Assassins.
played as Jetta Maxx
It's a bad Mortal Kombat clone, and early MKs in single player are already not fun at all to begin with. AI isn't quite as dreadful here, but there are no difficulty settings and losing sends you back a round for some reason. Good fucking luck if you're on a three button controller.
That said, there's a lot going for it in other departments. It looks good, the roster is actually not that bad, and each character has a surprising amount of backstory. If you care about fatalities, those are here, and in the Sega CD version they're considerably more gruesome than anything to come out of the 2D Mortal Kombat era.
I dunno, I wish this was better. I'm far from competent at fighting games and not exactly to be trusted with opinions on them, but I think if Sega decided to hop off Mortal Kombat's already mediocre dick whilst developing this than it could have had more of an identity of its own, and maybe there could be further, more polished entries as well. But alas, as is it sits in the same pile as games like Time Killers and Tattoo Assassins.
Rocko
2 years ago