Fucking hell I only played this for 4 hours and it had already given me a massive headache.
I know this game is infamous but I always thought that hey, maybe people are slightly overreacting... nah this game is ass.
The story is incredibly short, you can knock it out in 4 hours, it's also horrible and a complete mess. You play it from both franchises sides. So you can play the MK side first and then the DC side or vice versa. They're supposed to happen simultaneously but I could not piece them together at all half the time. Also the entire thing is just people constantly either misunderstanding each other or being taken over by the "Rage Force" or whatever, for 3 and a half hours until the very end where only two of the characters actually team up against the real big bad.
The gameplay is.... well I can see why they moved away from 3D arena fighters and back to 2D cause it's really not great.
Every character feels the exact same with slight variations in animations, that's about it. So many animations are just universally used and it's so weird.
Also, there are some serious balancing issues here, some characters are useless whereas others are OP af cough The Flash cough
Oh and not to mention the constantly fluctuating AI, they either just sit there and take everything or they become the most skilled player on the planet, juggling you for 30 seconds taking down almost all of your health, or they just stand back and spam the same move 5 times over. It became a fucking nightmare to play through.
The gamemodes are lacking severely.
In single-player all you have is Arcade, Story, Challenge and practise. No option for just 1 match fights against the AI or anything like that.
then for Multi-Player you just have... fight.
and then online
and that's it.
There's no extras, no collectables, no unlockables. well supposedly except two characters but either my game is broken or the game just lies to your face because when you beat the story modes you unlock Shao Khan and Darkseid... and yet if you check the character roster they are nowhere to be fucking found, it's so weird.
The voice acting is horrible and mostly terribly miscast, the character designs are okay, except for literally all three of the women characters who have the skimpiest outfits known to man for some reason, oh and also massive jugs because why not.
The few things I did like about the game?
The stage transitions are pretty neato. I liked most of the DC character designs, while yeah they are very basic they do give off a cool comic book feel. I like some of the Heroic Brutalities, I know it sucks we couldn't get proper fatalities in the game but the substitution ain't the worst thing in the world. and the gameplay, when the AI isn't suddenly on steroids, can be fairly entertaining.
however, again, after only playing this for four hours and beating the story, I am already fucking sick of it. I don't wanna see this again please and thank you.
Look, I know this game has a dark history as to why it's so rushed and bad, but that doesn't make it any less rushed or bad.
If you're interested in learning why this game... is.
I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrqXNdRUwXw
The guy covers the history behind the disaster very well :))
I know this game is infamous but I always thought that hey, maybe people are slightly overreacting... nah this game is ass.
The story is incredibly short, you can knock it out in 4 hours, it's also horrible and a complete mess. You play it from both franchises sides. So you can play the MK side first and then the DC side or vice versa. They're supposed to happen simultaneously but I could not piece them together at all half the time. Also the entire thing is just people constantly either misunderstanding each other or being taken over by the "Rage Force" or whatever, for 3 and a half hours until the very end where only two of the characters actually team up against the real big bad.
The gameplay is.... well I can see why they moved away from 3D arena fighters and back to 2D cause it's really not great.
Every character feels the exact same with slight variations in animations, that's about it. So many animations are just universally used and it's so weird.
Also, there are some serious balancing issues here, some characters are useless whereas others are OP af cough The Flash cough
Oh and not to mention the constantly fluctuating AI, they either just sit there and take everything or they become the most skilled player on the planet, juggling you for 30 seconds taking down almost all of your health, or they just stand back and spam the same move 5 times over. It became a fucking nightmare to play through.
The gamemodes are lacking severely.
In single-player all you have is Arcade, Story, Challenge and practise. No option for just 1 match fights against the AI or anything like that.
then for Multi-Player you just have... fight.
and then online
and that's it.
There's no extras, no collectables, no unlockables. well supposedly except two characters but either my game is broken or the game just lies to your face because when you beat the story modes you unlock Shao Khan and Darkseid... and yet if you check the character roster they are nowhere to be fucking found, it's so weird.
The voice acting is horrible and mostly terribly miscast, the character designs are okay, except for literally all three of the women characters who have the skimpiest outfits known to man for some reason, oh and also massive jugs because why not.
The few things I did like about the game?
The stage transitions are pretty neato. I liked most of the DC character designs, while yeah they are very basic they do give off a cool comic book feel. I like some of the Heroic Brutalities, I know it sucks we couldn't get proper fatalities in the game but the substitution ain't the worst thing in the world. and the gameplay, when the AI isn't suddenly on steroids, can be fairly entertaining.
however, again, after only playing this for four hours and beating the story, I am already fucking sick of it. I don't wanna see this again please and thank you.
Look, I know this game has a dark history as to why it's so rushed and bad, but that doesn't make it any less rushed or bad.
If you're interested in learning why this game... is.
I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrqXNdRUwXw
The guy covers the history behind the disaster very well :))