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Shao Kahn's Final Attempt To Take Earth

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was actually expecting ALOT from this game, the conversion of UMK3 on Saturn was ARCADE PERFECT! Most of the time 2-D fighters are great on the Saturn. This one unfortunately wasn't. all the frames of character animation missing from the Playstation conversion of the game are still missing here(some of the arcade background animation was added back in though making them look great). According to some people the graphics are worse on this conversion b/c they are less sharp & the sprites are slightly smaller. I actually find this to be a plus b/c the characters look alot less pixelated. I hate the aggressor mode, it rewards people who are cheep & repeat the same combos over & over again making it much harder for some1 new to the series to pick up & play. On the plus side slightly shorter load times, most of the back grounds from the mk series are there as well as the music from MKII-UMK3. Some of which have been tweeked slightly replacing Shang Tsung with Shao Kahn in the MK backgrounds for instance. All the characters from the series up until that point are included some in 2 differant incarnations(human & cyber Smoke, classic & modern Sub-Zero, Kano, Raiden & Kung Lao). The story in MK is always good & this ties up some loose ends while creating a few new ones to keep things going. The Saturn D-pad is definately more forgiving then the Playstations allowing easier special attacks.The AI is a little bit more forgiving in this conversion then the Playstation release also. This is not a bad game it's just not as good as I was expecting it to be. I still think it was worth the $20 I forked out for it.

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