Mortal Kombat 4

This was always a fun game now if we could get deadly alliance deception and Armageddon my collection would be complete

It has some great characters, it was the first 3D MK, but by god it's not for me. Whenever I'm winning and performing fatalities I love the game, whenever I'm losing or messing up the inputs of the fatilities I'm hating the game and thanking life that games aren't this way anymore... although with how the monetization is being handled in the latests MK games, I frankly don't think there are that many good alternatives to playing a good -contemporary-, Mortal Kombat game, it boils down to a pick your poison kind of situation. I didn't grew up with these games, my first MK was Deadly Alliance and from then on I would just play them ocasionally with my dad, so I don't have nostalgia for this game, all I really wanted was -like some reviewers here have said-, a "casual" Mortal Kombat experience; but it's hardly that, even on the easiest difficulty setting the game is ridiculously difficult; which makes you think why even have difficulty settings in the first place... There's also an option to pull off moves in a "keyboard friendly" mode? But this doesn't really help when in order to perform fatalities you still have to hold "BLK+LP+HK+LK" whilst all being preceded by an obtuse button combination of directional keys; it's a mess. I don't know if I'm getting older, or maybe I'm just more into stuff from my time, either way... I do like some games made back then, it's just... some have aged better than others; this one -for me-, hasn't aged well at all.

At least there are some upgrades here, from MK 1-3... - It, at least, recognizes DirectInput & XInput. - The 4:3 is properly centered. - At least you can pause this game. And then the not so good... - Some buttons didn't map properly. - When you (or, at least I) alt+tab out, and back in, the screen shrinks to super small - you have to re-select video mode. - The 2.5d didn't do it, for me, and there seems to be a consensus that this was the worst, core MK game. This was my first time playing 4, and *shrug*.

the game does not run. i tested it both in windows 7 and in windows 10 and neither system is able to run it. the game is only compatible with windows 95 it seems. it can not however run in a virtual machine, because its hardware requirements is too high. this game is unfortunately stuck between old and new versions of windows. my old pcs might be able to handle it if i find it but, my 3 year old pc with i7-8700k and rtx 2080 ti can not even start it because of incompatibility with windows 10. the game is simply not compatible with the nt windows arcitecture.

No support for a default Xbox Series X controller, also very buggy on Windows 10, hangs always. I didn't enjoy. Uninstalled it not even playing 15 minutes. Not worth to buy.