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why do i get ripped off for shipping on amazon???

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: October 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i'm new @ this amazon thing but i know enough that if i ordered this game on october 11th and paid $14 bucks for next day shipping, AND the game was released oct 9th, why the WHY THE HELL did i get an email that said that it wont be SHIPPED until the 19th - the 26th??? thanks a lot amazon youre SUPER!!!!! i gave the game 5 stars becase i'm ASSUMING that i wouldve played the game if amazon wouldn't have been incompetent.

---T

A great free-for-all for Mortal Kombat fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: October 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Mortal Kombat has fixed a lot of problems with their latest release, Mortal Kombat Armageddon. There are trillions of characters and some fun mini-games too.

The basic plot - as if this blood-drenched game really needed a plot - is that the Gods are sick of all the fighting going on. They send their two sons down to try to get things under control. In the meantime, there's a gigantic pyramid in which the various Kombatants can duke it out to see who reins supreme.

There are many ways to play in Mortal Kombat Armageddon. There is a story mode where you do have a plot - you walk along paths in jungles, explore spaceships, have random fights as you go, gathering up coins and treasures. In arcade mode, you have instant access to about 60 different characters in a series of fights. If you get stuck with one character, you can try again with a new one.

The characters are drawn from all of the Mortal Kombat games. Some only showed up briefly in previous games. If you've been following up on the Mortal Kombat saga, you'll see all sorts of references to previous situations and feuds.

All the coins you earn in the various stages can be used to unlock items - new skills, new outfits, and more. They actually tell you what you're going to unlock, too! That's a nice change. Also, there's only one type of coin - so everything you earn goes into one bank account for you to spend however you wish.

There is a REALLY cool character creating system where you can set up a character, male or female, with exactly the hair, eyes, body shape and costume you want. The tweaking is pretty impressive with eye color, nose shape and more. You expect this level of detail from a RPG - but from a fighting game it's a great bonus.

Speaking of bonusses, if you like games like Super Bombad Racing, you're in for a treat. They include an entire racing game as a bonus, with little cartooney versions of Mortal Kombat characters zipping around on a track.

Are there downsides to the game? Well, while the arenas you fight in are destructable, have the ability to go from one area to the other and have interactive items, they are not as "lushly gorgeous" as a few other XBox fighting games.

Also, while it's pretty tame now compared to other mature games, it's worth noting that Mortal Kombat is very bloody. When this series first came out, a lot of people were in an uproar over it. Now the blood spurting out seems almost normal. Still, not a game for little kids.

It also seems a bit silly that you have fully detailed cinematics - sometimes VERY long cinematics - setting up situations ... but when you end an important battle you often get a text message saying "And then [insert important boss name here] decided to stop fighting and run away". It's a bit anticlimactic.

Still, these are minor complaints in a game that is really quite stellar. They let you play tons of characters right from the beginning, so you can easily get to your favorites. They have a ton of things to unlock, and the coin system is very easy. You know WHAT you're going to unlock.

And, to be honest, I *love* that they have male and female characters, side by side, kicking butt. I've seen male and female players choosing both male and female characters without any problem, knowing that both can be equally strong and skilled. That really makes me happy, that we've reached this point.

Highly recommend for mature fighting game fans.

Not Amazon's fault!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: October 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've been buying from Amazon U.S., Amazon France and Amazon U.K. and they're simple the best options to shop online as I can assure they give simply the best assistance on your orders, I've been waiting for this game a long time and I Pre-Ordered it before this guy did but I checked on Midway's site and some forums and its release for Xbox was delayed so don't blame Amazon for this, just be patient because the best place where you could get this game is here.

:0)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: October 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i like it,and i'm glad i got it because they gave it a low rating and i think it should get higher. I enjoy the konquest a little better this time, the fact that they brought out all the players scored extra points with me and the mini games was good for me enjoyable a keeper

Deception meets Shaolin Monks

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's Ocotber and that means another Mortal Kombat game is served up by Midway for the current gen systems. When I first heard about this game in June, I was very excited because I really enjoyed the last 2 MK fighters. The promise of every character from the series, create a fighter and improved online play sounded great. Well, the game, which is fun to play, doesn't reach the classic 5 star rating that many have given it. I like it, but I gave it 3 stars, which to me, equals an average rating. This is an average game at best, let me explain why.

This game is LOADED with content. Because of this, the developers had to scale back certain game elements in order to cram everything in. For example, in previous MK games, the fighters had up to 3 fighting styles. Now, the characters have a maximum of 2, with some characters only having one. The backgrounds and character graphics are less detailed than in previous MK games. Also, I think the custom fatality feature was put into place out of necessity, not to be revolutionary. For those who don't know, all the characters perform similar fatalities now, you just get to choose from a lengthy list of them (head rips, beheadings, arm rips, etc.). So, gone are each characters fatality that made them unique. I think this was done to save disc space, again to fit everything needed on the game disc the developers needed to cut some corners. Custom fatalities does this because now all the characters share the same fatality animations, instead of having animations that are unique to them. If you created 2 or 3 unique fatality animations for this huge number of fighters, it would fill up the game disc pretty quick. So, to me this is a step backward, not forward.

The Konquest mode, which has been really fun to play in the past, is no longer open ended like it was before. Konquest mode is now a strictly linear and scaled back version of the Shaolin Monks action game. You play as Taven and piece together his character's story which is heavily involved in the new MK tournament. It's fun at times, but not as much fun to play as previous Konquest modes have been. Konquest seems to be simply for unlocking content and coin collecting and offers little else and at times feels more like necessary busy work and not an exciting fun part of the game.

One final complaint is the fact that the actual tournament (arcade mode) is very short. Wouldn't you think that a tournament featuring every character in MK's history would have a bigger feel to it? Wouldn't it be massive in scale and scope? The big fight, must win atmosphere fans crave is completely void here. It just doesn't feel like a big deal.

Now, with all that out of the way, I have some good things to say about the game. First, we can finally play as all the boss characters. When I first heard this, I thought the boss characters would be watered down...they're not! They are just as powerful as you would hope. They're moves are limited, but they are really powerful and I can easily win the tournament with them.

Gone are all the different multi-colored coins. Now, you just collect gold coins, making it very easy to make purchases in the krypt. The krypt now allows you to see exactly what you're unlocking before you unlock it. I haven't decided if I like this or not. Sure, the frustration of making purchases from previous games is gone, but so is the surprise, which I really enjoyed.

The biggest upgrade in the series is the create a fighter feature. This is really cool and the fact that you can take your character online just makes it all the sweeter!

PS2 players have complained that the fighters can be slow and pulling off moves can be sluggish. I must say, that this is not a problem with the Xbox version, but that's simply because the Xbox runs a little faster than the PS2 thanks to the hardware.

Overall, MK Armageddon is fun, but it's not the classic that you'll keep returning to for years to come. I hope that the first MK game for the next gen systems achieves all the loafty goals that this game strived for, but didn't quite reach. It's a good game, it's just not a 5 star classic.

Probably The Best MK Game To Date!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: October 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have been a Mortal Kombat fan since the original game and I am always impressed with each new MK game (although I have yet to play MK: Mythologies).

I was a huge fan of Mortal Kombat Trilogy simply because we were finally able to play as some of the characters that we couldn't play as before: Shao Kahn, Goro, Kintaro, Motaro, etc. But it was only available on PS1 and the N64. I had always hoped that Midway would bring out something similar for the Xbox and PS2 consoles. After several more Kombat games, Midway finally did it! Here we get a roster of about 62 characters, four of which still need to be unlocked. But the fact that we virtually get all the characters unlocked when we first put the game in our consoles is absolutely amazing! I was expecting to have to unlock at least half the roster but that's not the case here!

What about some of the features? Well, for starters, like the last two MK games, there is The Krypt where you can use koins you've earned in Arcade and Konquest mode to unlock items. However, there are not as many unlockables in this game compared to the previous two; the reason could be because of the huge roster which took up disc space and a few other odds and ends. Sadly, there isn't much of anything special to unlock here except for alternate character costumes and arenas. The concept art is...well...just that. And the movies are basically test footage of some of the characters and about one or two promo ads for a couple of the newer MK games. What is especially nice about The Krypt this time is that there are no multi-colored koins to collect. There are only gold koins, making it easier to unlock items.
Konquest mode has been redone as well, making it more fun, in my opinion. Anyone who has played Shaolin Monks will easily see the resemblance here. This makes the mode much more fun because you have to interact more with the environment than in previous Konquest modes. However, there is probably one drawback to it, just like with any other previous Konquest mode, it is basically there for you to unlock items and to collect koins.
Another interesting feature here is Motor Kombat. What it is is a simple spinoff of the Mario Kart series of games, only with MK characters. There are ten characters to choose from, each with their one special abilities to try to win the race. There are also five tracks. The unfortunate thing about this mode, however, is that it is small, not offering us many characters or tracks due to the already large amount of disc space the roster takes up. This mode is something just to kill some time with and really nothing more. Some may find it more fun than Chess or Puzzle Kombat, but it is personal preference.
There is also a new Kreate A Kharacter feature. All you need to know about this is that it is, seriously, the DEEPEST character creation engine I have seen on ANY game to date! This mode goes in really deep and what makes it more fun is that you can take your character online and battle with others.
There is a Kreate A Fatality feature as well but it is only within the Arcade mode. When you defeat a character and FINISH HIM is flashing, you have a certain allotted amount of time to due a fatality. It is fairly simple to pull off 1-3 of them with simple button pushing, but you can do as many as you wish. The more experienced you are with the game's controls, the more you'll be able to pull off. There is one catch however, with each fatality you pull-off, the amount of time lessens for you to pull-off the next one. So you have to be quicker about it as you progress. What makes this feature dry is that the individual character fatalities are gone. Disc space, once again, is the reason for this. So the fatalities are nothing more than simple ripping off of limbs, busting skulls, etc.

The graphics are still looking good here. But they do seem to look slightly more bland than in the previous two installments due to the large roster. The arenas and characters, although still very nicely detailed, are not quite as detailed as they were in Deception or Deadly Alliance. Nevertheless, they are still very well done.

The gameplay is still very good here. The characters are relatively easy to control. What I like about this installment is that the boss characters are much easier to defeat than they were in previous games; like Kintaro, Shao Kahn, Motaro, etc. They are not the cheap AI fighters they were in previous MK games. Also, in the two previous Kombat games each fighter had three fighting sets. Two hand-to-hand styles and one weapon. But due to disc space, the max you will see here is two. Some of the characters, like Onaga, only have one. While it seems like a loss, it's not all that big of a loss. Of course it would be interesting to see some characters, like Onaga, have a weapon as well.

Mortal Kombat Armageddon is a Mortal Kombat fan's dream game! With over sixty fighters, everyone is surely going to try beating the game with a vast number of characters. The only drawback to the game are the quality of the unlockables in The Krypt, the extras, and the fact that in Arcade mode, there are only about eight fighters you have to go through before getting to Blaze (the boss). For a game that has a story that points to the coming of an apocalypse, the amount of fighters you have to go through seems very small. Too bad there wasn't an option you could choose like in Mortal Kombat 3 and Trilogy where there were different tiers with a different number of fighters in it. The only way to get a good challenge out of this is to simply up the difficulty level.
The game, overall, is really what we had expected: A Mortal Kombat game with every fighter available for us to use! Sure we were hoping for some extras that would keep us occupied as well like the previous two installments, but isn't the main reason we are buying this game is so we can play as all the characters? That is the main attraction here and it delivers! Armageddon will most certainly go down as one, if not, the best MK game to date and is sure to be a big seller with Christmas right around the corner!

I highly recommend this game to any Mortal Kombat fan!

MORTAL KOMBAT...but could have been better.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: October 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I like the Mortal Kombat games and characters. There's a rich history to the series and through all the incarnations there's also been a familiar level of game play and fun.

The newest MK title ARMAGEDDON has all the positives that you would expect from an MK title plus the added bonus of every character in MK history available.

However, in today's gaming market it still feels kind of bare bones.

The only online option is fighting. No team kombat, chess kombat, tournaments...just fighting. That gets old real quick. Many gamers will point out that there is a racing game called MOTOR KOMBAT (which is fun if you're under 10) but from my adult perspective it's just taking up disk space that could have been better used someplace else.

Other sorry points of the new title would be: a short arcade mode (with the worst ending sequences ever...what is the motivation to win with multiple characters?), the loss of individual fatality moves, and a Krypt that offers little game play additions (so why worry about spending money in it?).

I'm giving the game 3 stars because I am a fan and for $39 it will give me a few weeks of gaming fun. But in today's day-and-age of online gaming developers need to look at providing options that will extend a game's life through replay value. Once you've done a few fights in this game you'll probably be ready to play something else.

DONT BUY THIS GAME!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: October 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS A PIECE OF TRASH! FIRST OF ALL I'M REALLY DISSAPOINTED WITH THE FACT THAT THIS GAME DOESN'T PLAY IN 720p ON CERTAIN MODELS OF HDTVs(I'M ONE OF THE UNLUCKY FEW WITH ONE OF THESE TVs). THIS SUCKS BECAUSE THE MAIN REASON I BOUGHT THIS GAME IS FOR ITS 720p CAPABILITIES. THAT WOULD'VE BEEN A GREAT FEATURE SINCE XBOX 360 GAMES PLAY IN 720p AND 1080i, AND THIS WAS $39.99 SO THAT WAS THE DEAL MAKER FOR ME. ASIDE FROM THE FACT THAT MIDWAY IS AWARE OF THIS PROBLEM AND THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT'S THEIR GAME CAUSING THE PROBLEM, NOT THE TVs, THEY STILL WON'T COMPENSATE ME IN ANY KIND OF WAY. AND, SINCE I CAN'T RETURN THE GAME TO BESTBUY(BECAUSE THEY THINK I BEAT THE GAME, LOST INTEREST, OR I WANT TO PULL OFF SOME SCAM), I'M STUCK WITH A GAME THAT I DON'T WANT. THE MORONS AT MIDWAY TOLD ME THAT I CAN "STILL ENJOY PLAYING THE GAME IN 480 AND 1080i". WELL FIRST OF ALL, THERE IS NO 1080i FOR THIS GAME(I TRIED THAT ALREADY BY GOING TO THE XBOX DASHBOARD AND SELECTING "YES" WHEN ASKED IF MY TV SUPPORTS 1080i),IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE IN PICTURE QUALITY, AND SECOND, I BOUGHT THIS GAME TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF MY HDTV, XBOX, XBOX HD WIRES, AND 720P CAPABILITES OF MKA, SO I DON'T WANT TO SETTLE ON 480p. THAT SOUNDS LIKE FALSE ADVERTISING TO ME BECAUSE IT CLEARLY STATES THAT THE GAME PLAYS IN 720p ON THE BACK OF THE CASE.
NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT THE GAME ITSELF. NOT MUCH TO SAY HERE- KIND OF FUN AT FIRST, BUT THEN IT GETS OLD FAST. KREATE-A-FATALITIES ARE THE WORST! THE BIGGEST LET-DOWN TO ANY MK FAN. THE KREATE A FIGHTER SUCKS, TOO. THE MOTOR KOMBAT IS KIND OF FUN, BUT YOU CAN'T PLAY ONLINE. BUT YOU KNOW, I CAN OVERLOOK THESE THINGS AND JUST PLAY THE GAME FOR ITS BRUTAL BUT FUN CONTENT AND ITS GREAT GRAPHICS BUT I CAN'T. THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME I EVER BUY A MIDWAY GAME. THEY SHOULD'VE JUST SENT ME A $40 CHECK, NEW GAME , OR SOMETHING BUT NOW BECAUSE OF THIS B.S. THEY JUST PULLED, I'LL NEVER BUY ANOTHER MIDWAY GAME AND NEITHER WILL ALOT OF THE PEOPLE I KNOW.

The Best MK so Far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What makes this game so great is its got everygood thing about previous MK adcept better Deadly Alliance had a ton of Charecters this has alot and more Deception had a konquest mode that was fun this one has a konquest adcept better and Shalon Monks brought back Lu Kane the living version of him.I dont no about you but i missed Lu Kane alot and hes finally back all u got to do is by dead Lu Kanes alternate costume and its alive Lu Kane.I also really like the Kreate your fighter mode everyhting is extremely deep when it comes to cusomizing the only problem is everything cost tokens for your charecter and the Big thing that everyone looked forward to is all the fighters you start out with over 60 and just about all of them have extra costumes which are fun to unloc.Its awsome being alowed to play with goro and the dragon king and all those big guys.

This is a great MK and i recomend it alot

Do not buy!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: November 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is not compatiable with Xbox 360...do not buy unless you still
own your old Xbox!!!

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