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Ultimate Mortal Kombat for Game Boy Advance

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The fighting game known as Mortal Kombat returns with a portable game for Game Boy Advance, which features 23 selectable fighters from Liu Kang, Sub Zero, and Scorpion to Smoke, Noob Saibot and Jade. The game itself is exactly like the Ultimate Mortal Kombat game which was released years ago for home systems. The fun part about the game is that every single move, maneuver, friendship and fatality is in the game, but brutalities and animalities are not (no one should care). Also, because of the limited buttons of Game Boy Advance, there is only one punch button and one kick button making each move easy to learn! The game might sound stupendous now, until you play it, the characters are rather slow and sometimes the animation jerks! With the one player mode you chose your fighter and proceed in one of four ladder tournaments, finally battling the half man / half horse Motaro and the evil Emperor; Shao Kahn!

What......

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If only Midway would put more thought into their games, this could have been one of the best games for the GBA. First off this is an exact copy of the 16 bit versions of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, which isn't a bad thing, but the translation to the GBA could have been done much, MUCH more better, and what we have is a game that feels unfinished. The graphics are bland, very bland. The characters are stiff and the animation is very jerky. The moves aren't as easy to pull off as you might think, and yeah they take practice to pull off, but they could have been made much better. All in all, Mortal Kombat Advance isn't worth the asking price, but its not a completely bad game, just buy it when you find it in a bargain bin.

You can't make a good portable MK game, so stop trying!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Mortal Kombat games are some of the most widely recognized fighting games out there. Whether you love the games or hate them, they're damn popular. Next to Street Fighter, this is probably the most popular fighting game series of all. Unfortunately, every previous attempt to bring the series to a portable gaming system is an utter failure. But with the Game Boy Advance released, things were looking promising. It seemed that Midway finally had the technology to make a good portable MK game! Did they succeed? Read on for my review of Mortal Kombat Advance.

PROS:
-THERE ARE A TON OF CHARACTERS TO CHOOSE FROM. Essentially, the list of characters you can choose from is every similar to that of the Nintendo 64 Mortal Kombat title, Mortal Kombat Trilogy. No two characters play exactly alike.
-THE GRAPHICS ARE VERY GOOD. For a portable fighting game, these graphics are excellent. The characters and backgrounds alike both look great.
-THERE ARE A TON OF BACKGROUNDS. The backgrounds make your combat all the more interesting, especially since there are a few background fatalities your characters can pull off.
-UNLIKE SOME EARLIER MORTAL KOMBAT BLUNDERS, THIS GAME IS UNCENSORED! Early Game Boy and Super Nintendo Mortal Kombat games were censored for reasons unknown, but this is a mature-rated game, in all its bloody glory.

CONS:
-THE ANIMATION IS JUST TOO CHOPPY. Everything in the game looks good except for the movement of the characters. Their movement is just too choppy! And this can really mess up your response times in battle.
-THE GAME FORCES YOU TO USE THE GAME BOY ADVANCE'S SHOULDER BUTTONS. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - WHEN YOU ARE DESIGNING A GAME FOR THE GAME BOY ADVANCE, YOU WANT TO MAKE USAGE OF THE SHOULDER BUTTONS MINIMAL. Unfortunately, one of the most important commands in the game, block, requires usage of the R button. When will game makers learn? Okay, okay, this one is more Nintendo's fault than anyone else.
-MORTAL KOMBAT IS A SIX-BUTTON GAME, BUT GAME BOY ADVANCE HAS FOUR BUTTONS. This means instead of high and low punches and kicks, you only get one punch and one kicks. This just butchers the gameplay.

OVERALL:
Midway just can't take a hint - every time they make a portable Mortal Kombat game, it fails terribly. They need to quit trying while they're still ahead. If you want a good fighting game for the Game Boy Advance, look elsewhere, because this ain't it!

The worst mortal combat, and one of the crummiets gma games

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: February 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What upsets me the most was that i was dumb enough to buy this thing, ug. I should kick my own tail for doing something of which i should have known better for. Graphics and sound are great, but thats were it ends. Special moves like scorpion's spear throw work maybe once in 25 tries, ai is a joke being too hard or too easy. Really, if you want to win, just run at your opponent until they back themselves in a corner, then wail away; they won't block or even try to get away. Fatalities r easy to pull off, but they're bland. The game book says you're supposed to do the classic sub zero's head pull, nope, you really send out a blast of frigid air which freezed your vic, who then falls back and shatters. If you're a glutton for punishment and flawed, shoddy games, this is for you. If you want to waste oodles of time being frustrated at unresponsive special attacks and view utter lackluster combos, this is for you. The rest need not apply.

mortal kombat is back... advanced

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: October 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

the world of mortal kombat is back. with all your favorite characters such as goro and sub-zero,it is a great fighting game. play much like mortal kombat trilogy with a few new characters!*

Mortal Kombat Advance- My review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have heard a lot of people complain that this game is too hard.
I must point out however that there is a handicap feature which is in the "options" menu that makes the game much more playable. It's poorly explained in the manual; What you have to do to is hit the D pad up and watch the bar move until its a point that you think its ok.

Now having said that...I do think the game does deserve a second look. It had very good graphics and sound. Some of the more complicated moves are tough to administer though. It also takes some patience to learn some of the special abilities for each of the players (like Sub Zero for example).

I recommend this game but be aware this is not a game you can simply jump right in and play. Its does take some time to figure it out.

Hope this review helps..

15 year old gamer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This version is modeled just like the arcade version, which was fun for a few minutes and for a quarter or two while you waited for your pizza. But, it is difficult and gets boring quickly because all you can do is fight and switch from character to character. If you are very good at this type of game and can find out the specials and finishing moves, at least wait for the price to drop.
For an arcade game, this was great fun and good at sucking up spare quarters. But for a permanantly owned game that you hope to get a lot of hours out of, it is repetitive and disappoints.

Man this game sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Mortal Kombat perfected itself when it brought out the MK Trilogy on Pc and PSX. But before that, the SNES had great games of MK 1, 2 & 3 and then buggered up the trilogy for the N64.

Now that the power of the SNES can be made into a hand held console, you'd think the GBA version of the original style of MK would rock, right? Wrong.

What the hell have they made here????

A GBA is supposed to be a handheld SNES, yet the SNES game never was as slow as this game, the graphics wherent as bad (backgrounds are image's) the moves where executable with ease on the SNES and yet this version it takes 2 or 3 tries to get something to work because the response of the game is not fast enough!!! and the worst thing is the feel of it, you cant beat the computer with ease, everythign you do gets blocked, the computer all of a suddan goes on a rampage kicking your butt and you cant do anythign about it.

Plus, where the hell is Johnny Cage, Goro but most important of all Raiden??? You cant have a MK game without Raiden.

To screw it up even worse, it's a 2 button game now!!! no more jp,lp,lk,hk,b & r...nope, just k & p... press back+K for a roundhouse kick, press down+back+kick for a sweep... that probably would have been ok to get used to if the bloody response of it actualy worked... i have to slow down my button pressing so the computer can execute the moves which sucks to high heaven.

I didnt even get a fality off, there is no one button fatality code. I played this with a gameshark and needed the infinite health code on. You even need the gameshark to unlock Shoakahn, Montoro and Human Smoke because to access them you have to beat the game then get to use them for one round. WHY THE HELL GO BACKWARDS FROM THE TRILOGY? It's a serios downstep and it's the worst Mortal Kombat i've ever played. It even makes me like the 64's version better with it's less charactors and no one button fatality cheat that every other version had.

This is the worst MK game ever. Dont buy it, it's slow, it doesnt have the right feel, the response sucks, the computer blocks everything, there is hardly a cheat worth looking at, the bacgrounds suck.... there is nothing good to say about this game.

Plase, if you do like this game, it's probably because you have never played any of the other MK's before. So, go and find an MK game on any other system and find out why I am saying what I am saying about this version, and you will agree with me 100% when you play the GBA version again and it runs so slow and boring and nothing goes right.

Good Game, But too Hard

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun and addicting, but it is way too difficult. I can't even beat novice mode. On the MK for old game boy, it was much easier, but now it is impossible!!! Otherwise it is good. The graphics are excellent.

Finish Him!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is too easy, there really isn't that much of a challenge, and unlocking Shao Kahn, Motaro, and Human Smoke isn't really as exciting as it seems. If you unlock them, you can only use them once. Someone needs to find a good code for this game, like Hyper Mode.

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