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ADDICTION IS BAD!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

MK4 IS A SUPERIOR FIGHTING GAME. MY MOUTH IS WATERING FOR MORTAL KOMBAT DEADLY ALLIANCE. IN MK4 THERE ARE THE CLASSIC FIGHTERS (SCORPION, SUBZERO, REPTILE, SONYA, LIU KANG & JAX). PLUS SOME FIGHTERS THAT WERE INTRODUCED IN THE FLAWED "SUBZERO: MYTHOLIOGIES" (QUAN CHI & SHINNOCK) PLUS NEW FOR MK4 (TANYA, FUGIN, KIA, RECKO & JAREK) THERE'S A TOTAL OF 15 FIGHTERS WITH 2 HIDDEN FIGHTERS (17 ALL TOGETHER). THIS GAME MOVES VERY FAST IF YOU KNOW HOW TO PLAY IT. BUT UNTIL THEN YOUR FIGHTER MAY LOOK A LITTLE SILLY JUMPING AROUND WHILE YOUR GETTING THE HANG OF THINGS. PERSONALLY I LIKE THE MORTAL KOMBAT KOMBO SYSTEM AND OVER ALL FORMULA BETTER THAN ANY OTHER FIGHTING GAME. FAVORITE FIGHTERS R' QUAN CHI, REPTILE, SUBZERO & LIU KANG. LEAST FAVORITES R'... OH I LIKE'M ALL. WANNA CHEAT MENU FOR EASY FATALITIES? TRY THIS: GO TO OPTIONS, HIGHLIGHT 'CONTINUES' HOLD BLOCK & RUN AT THE SAME TIME FOR ABOUT 5 SECONDS, YOU WILL HEAR "OUTSTANDING" CONTINUE TO HOLD THE BUTTONS FOR 3 MORE SECONDS. A MENU WILL APPEAR. NOW WHEN IT SAYS 'FINISH HIM' YOU MAY PERFORM A FATALITY BY HOLDING DOWN & PRESSING THE B BUTTON.

Mortal Komat 4 is awesome....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Despite mixed emotions from reviewers all over, Mortal Kombat 4 is an awesome fighting game. Taking the once 2-D game into 3-D now adds alot of depth. The game moves just as smoothly and as fast as the past games so, those who still have the 'twitch' when it comes to fighting games, will feel right at home. I remember when I played this at the arcade at our local mall when it first came out. I went up against a 12 year old kid and got my tail kicked by him on it but I was tickled to just get to play it. I'm tickled it's out for the systems. Definitely worth checking out. Collect it if you can.

Just got it delivered, and it is wonderful!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is a few years old, of course, but I was so pleased with it that I played it all last night after it was shipped to me. Definitely the best fighting game for the fading N64 platform. It is somewhat easy on the easy settings (almost too easy mind you), and as you increase the challenge level, the computer opponents increase in ability almost 10 fold.

The only gripe that I have is that some moves are just not condusive to being made on the N64 controller. My hands also wanted to keep sliding over into the traditional n64 grip on the controller (with the stick and not the pad), but this game does not play well with the stick and thus you have to use the pad. That will feel weird at first. You can re-map the buttons to better suite your needs, but if you do, other moves will be more difficult to pull off as well. For instance, Sub-Zero's famous slide is almost impossible to do without taking your right hand off the controller and repositioning it on the correct buttons to make him do his slide. While you're doing this, you're getting your butt kicked because how are you going to concentrate on where the buttons are during the fight?

I still give it 5 stars because those problems are not really that significant in the long run. The combo system is wonderful, and anyone who is looking for a good fighting game on the N64 console should pick this one up. With the price that it is at now, it is very affordable too. I highly recommend it.

Very Underrated, but rightfully so

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Mortal Kombat 4 was released in 1997 in arcades (which began with a nationwide roadtour(extremely rare for an arcade game), was the first 3D Mortal Kombat game, and, I believe was released on home consoles in 1998. This game is pretty good and as I said in the title is underrated but rightfully so. The reason for that is because since this is the first Mortal Kombat game to go 3D, it's a little bit of a rush job in the fatalities, the graphics, and so on. Overall, I'd say this is a very good game and would recommend it to all MK fans.

Don't they know when to quit?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: December 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I have been a fan of the classic Mortal Kombat games ever since I can remember playing the first on super nintendo. But this new game is not for the real MK fan. It abandons all of what made it so enjoyable in the first place, gives the player a few new characters and takes on a boring KILLER INSTINCT style. Big Deal. This series can not just keep going on and on doing the same old thing, so why don't they quit? A huge disappointment,

Too bloody!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: March 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This has got to be the worst Mortal Kombat game in the series. The blood looks like squares, and there is too much of it. Also, some of the fatalities are so sick that I can't even look at them!

If you like this kind of game, you still may want to rent it first.

Choose Your Destiny

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I had this game given to me for free years ago on the PC format. I liked it, but for some reason it crashed on me one day and I mustve done something to the disc, 'cause it never worked or would reinstall on any computer after that.

All these years later I've just picked it up, second hand, for the N64. And I must say there is not really any difference between the PC version and the 64 version, which is a good thing!

The only difference is in the movies. The PC and I 'spose gaystation version had the movies & ending in video form, where as the 64 replicates them the same way using the polygons of the 3d characters themselves. I have no complaint about it, I like it wether it's video form, or 3D poly form. They both still tell the same story. Except Reiko who just walks off into a portal.. the other versions show what happens when he goes into the portal, he puts on his Shoa Kahn mask!!!! shame thats not in it.

All the codes and moves where the same, and I like the fact that the PRACTIVE mode allows you to press pause and choose a list that displays all the characters moves, fatalitys and weapens etc... tho, i'm really kind of sick of the combinations of move lifts, which makes it great to just go into the options, highlight "continues #" and hold down block+run untill it takes you to the hidden menu where you can turn on auto fatalitys and stuff.

The only bad thing I can say about the game is what it should have had included. It needed to be fixed so that the auto fatalitys worked like in MK: TRILOGY (All platforms EXCEPT the N64 version) where each button freformed a diffrent fatality (2 fats, freindship, babality etc..) that about it.

This game is one of the best head to head fighter games. Unfortunatly the team at Crapcom decided to make a billion versions of Street Fighter for every other system... talk about over kill... but they didnt wanna make one for the 64, so thats there loss, which means Mortal Kombat is the best head to head fighter on the 64 if you ask me.

This game is actualy converted to the 64 straight from the arcade and then extras where added in after that, which makes it better then the arcade. Like the fact you can play as Goro & Noobsaibot, and a skinless character named Meat (go to GameFaq,com for the codes)

MK is the best head to head fighter on the N64 in this realm.

Best fighter on the N64.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 22, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Let's face it the N64 has crappy fighting games but this is the best.The N64 version of MK4 is indeed a lot like the arcade and any MK fan will like it.The only problem with the game is there isn't anything new here.All the new characters have moves earlier fighters had in previous games.Also the old characters have the same moves and nothing new.The only thing new and different is that it is in 3D and they have weapons.

[Mortal Kombat 4]

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ive Been A Mortal Kombat fan for years.But i was very dissapointed When Mortal kombat 4 Came out.The thing that attracted me to the 1st mortal kombat in the fist place was they used actual people in the game that made it distinktive from many other games, And i belive when people were suggesting to have it in the 3d formatt its that they wanted actual charecters (people) like in part 1,2&3 But in 3 dementianal backgrounds and 3d actual people charecters. Plus i think they bombarded the charecter Rayden he Looks Sorry. Hopefully they will return to useing actual charecters

It's okay...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was really excited when this game first came out. The advertisements were really cool and I was excited about MK finally going 3D. But, the first con I noticed when I started to play was that it had the same boring music as the last games. The Mortal Kombat movies boasted excellent, exciting music, and I was really hoping that MK4 would incorporate some of that into the game. The music made the movies so much better (and let's face it, probably the only thing that made the second movie worth seeing was the music during the fights).
Killer Instinct has awesome music, which is what makes that game so fun to play. MK4, if it would have had better, faster music, would have been a lot better, IMHO.

What I liked about this game was that old favorites returned. MK3 didn't even have Scorpion (my fave)! So, I'm grateful for his return. The graphics and special moves were cool, as were the weapons...but I feel as though they could have done so much more with the use of weapons. Basically, all you can do is hack and slash with no real technique or anything...

MK4 seems utterly far behind other 3D fighting games (like Tekken). It's unevolved and gets easily boring unless maybe you're a diehard fan. The plot was okay, but the character endings were done sooo poorly. I always thought MK was cool because of its intensity, but the endings in this game were...goofy. The resolution of the conflict between Scorpion and Sub-Zero was done so poorly...I just kept shaking my head.

And even Liu Kang's ending was horrible. The character voices were pathetic. In fact, I was going to give this game 3 stars, but now that I think about it, I'm only going to give it 2. I don't know if the game developers intended to make the game goofy and clown-like, but if they did, then they succeeded. If they were planning on making the game as cool and intriguing as the last ones, then they failed miserably, in my opinion at least.

One more con: Everyone has the same combos! Why?? Run, punch, punch, high kick, roundhouse (or something like that) is everyone's greatest combo it seems. MK3 Ultimate was cool because of all the different combos. But in this game, the only thing that makes one character different from another is the appearance and special moves. The fighting technique is the SAME for EACH character (except Goro, of course).

If you're an MK fan, then it's probably worth buying...but if not, just rent it...

I'm hearing rumors of an MK5 being in the works. If it's true, then I hope that it's more serious and true to the series than this game was. I don't think I'll buy it, though. I don't think I want much of anything to do with MK anymore.

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