Mortal Kombat
Tags: violence, murder

Plot synopsis:
The series takes place in a fictional universe consisting of eighteen surviving realms which, according to in-game backstories, were created by the Elder Gods. The Mortal Kombat: Deception manual described six of the realms as: "Earthrealm, home to such legendary heroes as Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage, and Jax, and also under the protection of the Thunder God Raiden; Netherrealm, the fiery depths of which are inhospitable to all but the most vile, a realm of demons and shadowy warriors such as Quan Chi and Noob Saibot; Outworld, a realm of constant strife which Emperor Shao Kahn claims as his own; Seido, the Realm of Order, whose inhabitants prize structure and order above all else; the Realm of Chaos, whose inhabitants do not abide by any rules whatsoever, and where constant turmoil and change are worshipped; and Edenia, which is known for its beauty, artistic expression, and the longevity of its inhabitants." The Elder Gods decreed that the denizens of one realm could only conquer another realm by defeating the defending realm's greatest warriors in ten consecutive Mortal Kombat tournaments.
The first Mortal Kombat game takes place in Earthrealm (Earth) where seven different warriors with their own reasons for entering participated in the tournament with the eventual prize being the continued freedom of their realm, threatened with a takeover by Outworld. Among the established warriors were Liu Kang, Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade. With the help of the thunder god Raiden, the Earthrealm warriors were victorious and Liu Kang became the new champion of Mortal Kombat. In Mortal Kombat II, unable to deal with his minion Shang Tsung's failure, Outworld Emperor Shao Kahn lures the Earthrealm warriors to the Outworld where the Earthrealm warriors eventually defeat Shao Kahn. By the time of Mortal Kombat 3, Shao Kahn revives Edenia's (now a part of his Outworld domain) former queen Sindel in Earthrealm, combining it with Outworld as well. He then attempts to invade Earthrealm but is ultimately defeated by the Earthrealm warriors again. After Kahn's defeat, Edenia was freed from Kahn's grasp and returned to a peaceful realm, ruled by Princess Kitana. The following game, Mortal Kombat 4, features the former elder god Shinnok attempting to conquer the realms and attempting to kill the thunder god Raiden. However, he is also defeated by the Earthrealm warriors.
In Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, the evil sorcerers Quan Chi and Shang Tsung join forces to conquer the realms. By Mortal Kombat: Deception, after several fights, the sorcerers emerge victorious having killed most of Earthrealms' warriors until Raiden steps forth to oppose them. The Dragon King Onaga, who had been freed by Reptile at the end of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, had deceived Shujinko into searching for six pieces of Kamidogu, the source of Onaga's power. Onaga then confronted the alliance of Raiden, Shang Tsung, and Quan Chi and thus obtained Quan Chi's amulet, the final piece of his power. Only a few warriors remained to combat against the Dragon King and his forces. Shujinko eventually triumphed over the Dragon King and removed his threat to the Mortal Kombat universe.
In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon the catastrophe known as Armageddon starts. Centuries before the first Mortal Kombat, Queen Delia foretold the realms would be destroyed because the power of all warriors from all the realms would rise to such greatness it would overwhelm and destabilize the realms, triggering an all-destructive chain of events. King Argus had his sons, Taven, and Daegon, put into incubation who would one day be awakened to save the realms from Armageddon by defeating a firespawn known as Blaze. In the end, however, Shao Kahn is the one who defeats Blaze, causing Armageddon.
In Mortal Kombat (2011), it is revealed that the battle between the warriors of the six realms culminated into only two survivors: Shao Kahn and Raiden. Badly beaten, Raiden had only one last move he could make to prevent Shao Kahn from claiming the power of Blaze. He sends last-ditch visions of the entire course of the Mortal Kombat timeline to himself in the past right before the tenth Mortal Kombat tournament (first game). This transfer of information to his former self causes a rift in time, causing a new "reboot" timeline to be introduced that splits off from the original Armageddon timeline, with a new outcome of Mortal Kombat history to be written. But this story leads to even worse unforeseen events. It ends with many of the main game characters dying at the hands of Queen Sindel and Raiden accidentally killing Liu Kang in self-defense. Eventually, the Elder Gods aid Raiden in killing Shao Kahn and saving Earthrealm. But as the scene goes on it is later revealed that this was all a plan by Shinnok and Quan Chi.
Mortal Kombat X sees Shinnok and Quan Chi enacting their plan, leading an army of undead revenants of those that were killed in Shao Kahn's invasion against the realms. A team of warriors led by Raiden, Johnny Cage, and Sonya Blade oppose Shinnok, and in the ensuing battle, Shinnok is imprisoned, Quan Chi escapes, and various warriors are resurrected and freed from Shinnok's thrall. Twenty-five years later, Quan Chi resurfaces and allies himself with the insect-like D'Vorah in manipulating events that lead to Shinnok's release. Though Quan Chi is killed by a vengeful Scorpion in the process, Shinnok resumes his assault against the realms. After a grueling, protracted battle, Shinnok is defeated by Cassandra Cage representing the next generation of Earthrealm's warriors. With both Quan Chi and Shinnok gone, the undead revenants of Liu Kang and Kitana assume control of the Netherrealm and Lord Raiden now protects the Earthrealm not defensively but offensively with the help of the remaining revenants.

Review: As a young kid, mortal kombat was just about the most incredible game in the history of the world ever !
Nothing could touch it !The digitised graphics , while done before were executed well and the characters were so dark, menacing and vivid that they made other video game characters look like wimps.
And in addition to the then amazing look of the game there were moves that allowed you to actually kill your opponent !
"Greatest game ever!" i squealed at the time.Now I'm old and wise , mortal kombat doesn't do it for me no more- time has revealed its mediocre nature.The characters are still inspired, but the game play is jerky, and the difficulty level can get insanely hard .
It was in 1993 when I got my first taste of gratuitous bloodshed and dazzling martial arts action in the form of the greatest 2-D fighting game ever created: "Mortal Kombat." "Kombat," as envisioned by creator/programmers Ed Boon and John Tobias, revolutionized martial arts video gaming with this awesome fighter.
It also sparked an unprecedented controversy for its violence, something that would only help to further ensure its success, not defer it.In "Mortal Kombat," we're introduced to the fighters, who include monk Liu Kang, martial arts movie star Johnny Cage, Special Forces agent Sonya Blade, Lord Rayden the god of thunder, shape-shifting sorcerer Shang Tsung, terrorist Kano, rival ninjas Sub-Zero and Scorpion, Shang Tsung's guardian Reptile, and the four-armed Goro."Kombat" received the big screen treatment in 1995 with British director Paul W.S. Anderson behind the camera; that movie was plain awesome, but unfortunately suffers from a bad reputation because of a horrible, disjointed sequel, "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" (1997).The series of games have gotten a better reputation over the years, especially with the release of two new advanced "Kombat" games, "Deadly Alliance" and "Deception," and a third - the upcoming "Shaolin Monks" - each of which takes full advantage of a revamped fighting engine.The violence is shocking, the fights are brutal, and the blood flies but the martial arts action suffices over all of it.
"Mortal Kombat"("MK") and "Street Fighter"("SF") were the two biggest games on the arena of fighting-games back in the early 1990`s.
Mortal Kombat and its sequels are some of the greatest games ever created!
It has a good story, incredible action, great music, awesome characters, very fun, really interesting looking stages, and more!
Below is a brief In-depth review of the game called Mortal Kombat!Story: Many fighters around the world enter this deadly tournament.
The Kombatants!Liu Kang - This Chinese warrior is a fearless fighter who is bent on getting revenge!Johnny Cage - An action movie star, Cage enters Mortal Kombat!Sonya Blade - A beautiful Texan who is a Lt. in the United States Army.
He has the power to take a living being's soul!Kano - A member of the Black Dragon Organization, Kano fights with no fear in the tournament!Scorpion - A poor soul, when he was a live his wife and child were murdered by Sub Zero and the Lin Kuei clan of ninjas.
Now it will be a big showdown like never seen before!Reptile - Not much is known about this fighter except he wears the same exact ninja uniforms as Scorpion and Sub Zero but only green and can mimic other fighters maneuvers!
In My opinion its some of the best music ever in a video game!Sound: The sound is great.
The real voices sound clear and the punching and kicking does as well.Overall: I have always loved Mortal Kombat.
If you like excellent fighting games then I strongly recommend you play Mortal Kombat today!To purchase this video game on many game formats check out Amazon.com!.
This was one of the few games that gave the then-very-popular Street Fighter II video game some competition, and it tried to better that classic by not only including real digitised martial arts fighters, but by putting in some really gory bits.Just punching someone's head in repeatedly causes liquid crimson to spurt from their face in ridiculously high amounts, and when you had one two bouts out of three against your opponent you had the option (if you knew how) to perform a fatality that would actually kill your opponent in some rather horrible way.As usual with this kind of game, every single character has a special move (the best ones were Scorpion's harpoon and Sub-Zero's freezing move that froze his opponent rigid for a short time, leaving him/her open to an attack); otherwise, all characters had much the same set of punches and kicks.While the graphic violence (which probably started the video game rating system) is amusing for a little while, it hides a less-euphoric truth; there's not really much to all of this, and once you've seen the fatalities a few times it's doubtful you'll bother much with them (or even the game) anymore..
Most of my time was spent playing this game.
I can count the times that I beat this game and did every fatality.
As mentioned above it started the ratings systems for games today, because it was one of the most violent games for it's time.
Thankfully the controversy surrounding it only made it more popular as it does with most controversial games.Another thing that made this game so different from the rest of the fighting games was that the characters were real people digitized into the video game.
Mortal Kombat the game that started it all.
Mortal Kombat the game that started it all.
Mortal Kombat is one of the biggest video game series to ever come around.Also Mortal Kombat is one of the most controversial video games for it feature of finishing moves known as Fatalities.The game feature seven characters to fight with.
Sub-Zero Liu Kang, Raiden, Kano, Scorpion, Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade.
My favorite Mortal Kombat characters are Sonya Blade and Sub-ZeroThe game's main antagonist is Shang Tsung.
The game feature a well crafted story line and help created some of the best characters of any video game.
Each one has their own It factor that make them fan favorites.The Graphics of the game were using live action actors to help create the moment of the characters and the results make you wonder how they did.The controls depends on what system you are playing it on will give you a run for your money as this game needs you to be at your best because it will bring you down hard.It took a few times to get use to the way the game play works but the game play is good enough to share with friends because fighting games are about having someone extra to play against however the game isn't easy at all you have to be ready for whatever the game has in store it is not a easy game at all.
Mortal Kombat remains a fan favorite even today so do yourself a favor and play this game.
I was at a children party in a very well known Pizza Place with all kinds of amusement park games.I decided to play arcades when suddenly, a video game caught my attention because of it's realism and most of it, because of the violence level.
well, my video game life.I spent hours playing it on the arcade and I even bought the snes and genesis version.
It was one of those video games that changed history because of well you know, fatalities, special moves, creepy settings, creepy sounds and atmosphere, etc.
It wasn't the first horror video game but it paved the road for extreme violence in arcades and home systems overall.The plot is excellent and very interesting.
You don't get tired of it and mainly because of the characters background.You just need to play it on the Arcade to experience it's greatness.
one of the best fighting games of all time.
This is a great game that brings back many child hood memories which i so eagerly want to relive to the point where I'm going to purchase perfect arcade versions of all 3 games on x box.Anyways this game which is the very first game in the series is still great and is a classic and i can't wait to be able to play it again.The graphics are excellent the fighting and gameplay are all excellent and all of the fighters are unique.My favourite fighters in this game were Sub Zero and Scorpion.
Although this game is more then 10 years old and has certainly aged with time it still remains an all time classic.It's really a shame though that the original MK games which were all good and enjoyable have had their reputation altered due to crappy modern sequels and i could never and have no desire to ever play any of the latest MK games because they all look stupid and they don't have the digitalized graphics that the original MK games had and instead they have computer animated graphics and they all are just plain terrible.Some words of advice and that is only play the first 3 MK games and don't play any of the other MK games because they are all crap..
There was one time when I almost beat all three endurance levels and therefore get to fight Goro (something I've never done before in my life).
So I had to do the unthinkable and turn it off; terminating my chances of fighting Goro and now I have to try all over again.Luckely in MK2, it's pretty much the same as the original except (you guessed it) you can finally pause the game and relax..
Mortal Kombat was released at a time in which every other fighting video game was an utter rip off of Street Fighter 2.
Street Fighter 2 for a long time remained the only fighting game worth having a tournament for.
Never before have we seen a fighting game with such creative attacks, a block button, and balance from the fact that all characters had the exact same set of normal attacks.I'm sure anybody who plays video games remembers the controversy that Mortal Kombat started.
It was a shame that the game was so violent, because it completely distracted from what made Mortal Kombat good.
This was a land mark game in its time and is still a joy to play.
One of the best Sega Genesis games I have ever played.
MORTAL KOMBAT, in my opinion, is one of the best Sega Genesis games I have ever played.
In addition, beating the game makes me want to play it even more.
Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that the people at Sega Genesis know how to keep video game fanatics entertained.
Now, in conclusion, if you're a video game fanatic, this is definitely one you'll want to play and own..
Seven fighters: Johnny Cage, Kano, Raiden, Liu Kang, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Sonya Blade have been invited to participate in the Mortal Kombat tournament.
Which, at the time, interestingly took place right next door to the Street Fighter 2 cabinet.First and foremost on everyone's mind: The violence -- Sub-Zero ripping Scorpion's head off.
These two, unlike the villains in most other fighting games, apparently played by a different set of rules than the other combatants.
Not to mention they looked drastically different, bigger, than any of the playable combatants.Mortal Kombat provided a different flavor of a fighting experience than its competition.
On a game mechanics note Mortal Kombat waged its battles at a leisurely pace, making it perhaps one of the slowest fighting games out there at the time.
Each character had a full assortment of moves -- punches, kicks, uppercuts, sweeps (which all the combatants shared) along with their own handful of special attacks (which, along with the Fatalities, truly set the characters apart) -- however, most of these attacks stood alone.
(Well, okay, an infinite barrage of standing punches could be strung together, but anyone defeated by that deserves to have a Fatality done on them.) Mortal Kombat features a few surprisingly original moves.
Sub-Zero's projectile, unlike a traditional fireball, freezes his opponent in place for a limited time.
Scorpion, in addition to his famous spear, jumps into one side of the screen and pops out the other to punch his opponent in the face.That's not to say MK doesn't blatantly rip off special moves from other sources.
Then again, how many 2D fighting games had no projectile moves?
In fairness, Mortal Kombat was a quick, cheap, and easy Midway project with a clear, defined, sales gimmick -- digitized actors and the opportunity to "Finish him!" which none of the competition offered.
The game that started fatalities.Not only was it fun to play and great to look at.
This is one of my favorite video games of all time that i played over and over as a kid, and it's just as enjoyable today!.
This is one of my favorite video games of all time that i played over and over as a kid, and it's just as enjoyable today!.
I am Mortal Kombat freak, i love everything to do with it, hell i even enjoyed the crappy sequel on a so bad it's good level, and, playing it now brings back so many good memories from when i was a kid, plus All the attire the characters wore were great!.
This is one of my favorite video games of all time, that i played over and over as a kid and it's just as enjoyable today, if you still have a sega Genises and have not tried this game Do so immediately, Mortal Kombat 2 is even better!.
I know this is going to sound like sacrilege but I was never a fan of the Mortal Kombat games.
Having played Street Fighter and Fatal fury before it I just didn't see much point in another fighting franchise.Plus, the digitised graphics, which were supposed to be 'groundbreaking' and make us all go 'ooohhh, ahhh' were just really rubbish.
And the sequels never took my interest either.Not the best fighting game by far.Graphics C Sound C Gameplay C Lasting Appeal C+.
It doesn't seem as long ago as 1992 since Midway's classic beat-em up 'Mortal Kombat' first flooded the games market.
However, despite the high number of complaints it stirred up, 'Mortal Kombat' was a rip roaring success.This is how it all starts - Earthrealm is in danger of losing its tenth and final battle against Outworld.
Martial arts warrior Liu Kang is entering to avenge the defeat of Kung Lao, secret agent Sonya Blade is there to capture Black Dragon thug Kano who is planning to rob Shang Tsung's palace, ninja Sub Zero is there because he is given a generous cash sum to assassinate Shang Tsung, ninja Scorpion, who has risen from the dead, is entering the battle to avenge his own death, God of Thunder Rayden is taking part because he has been invited personally by Shang Tsung to take part in the tournament meanwhile film star Johnny Cage is entering the tournament merely to gain publicity.For the first time in a fighting game, 'Mortal Kombat' features what became known as 'fatality' in which if the correct procedure is followed you are able to kill your opponent in a gory fashion.
Sub Zero's fatality move which sees him rip the head and spine from his opponent provoked controversy, as did Kano's fatality feature which saw him rip his opponent's heart clean out of their chest.Despite the high number of complaints it received, it was clear that the game had made an impression as a sequel, 'Mortal Kombat II' was made the following year, as well as a jump to the big screen in 1995.
Richard Divizo ( who played Kano ), Ho Sung Pak ( who played Liu Kang and Shang Tsung ) and Carlos Pesina ( who played Rayden ) all managed to stick around for the spin off games that would follow however Daniel Pesina ( who played Sub Zero, Scorpion and Johnny Cage ) and Elizabeth Malecki ( who played Sonya ) were later fired from Midway due to a dispute over royalty fees.Reptile appeared here as a secret character, who could be unlocked if the correct guidelines were followed.
Liu Kang, Rayden, Sonya, Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Kano, and Scorpion are the chosen 7.
While at the time of it's release on SEGA and the SUPER N.E.S. systems, the graphics and special effects were superbly unlike anything ever seen before.
Today, the players and the settings are still VERY real-looking, but we've seen that this game title has much more to offer us.ONLY EXPERIENCED PLAYERS WILL UNDERSTAND THIS FOOTNOTE: The Pit Fatality is the only easy fatality to perform.
No, I have nothing against violent or graphic video games (love God of War and Grand Theft Auto), but too bad gory video games got off on a bad start with rubbish like this.Even though graphics may have improved with the sequel, but it's still nothing to write home about.
In every single game, it looks like the characters move as stiff as Barbie dolls and the attacks are super choppy.
Killer Instinct did a much better job at the fatality system and is much more funner to play.The characters, oh the characters...they're all...FUGLY looking.
I just simply loathe it.If you want good gory video games, play Grand Theft Auto or God of War.If you want a good fighting game with an interesting plot, lovable characters and good top notch quality, play the Soul Calibur series.If you want a fighting game with a decent fatality system, play Killer Instinct.If you want a good game in general, play "Final Fantasy XII" or "Legend of Zelda: Twillight Princess".If you want to play overrated tripe that gets too much hype, play "Mortal Kombat" (or what I call it "Major Krapage").