A New Dimension of Kombat
Shao Kahn has been defeated at the hands of Earth's warriors, and now Shinnok has escaped to his confines in the Netherealm. The war has resumed once again. This time, the battle CAN be won by mortals!
REAL WEAPON KOMBAT
Characters can pull out weapons that can be thrown,...
Shao Kahn has been defeated at the hands of Earth's warriors, and now Shinnok has escaped to his confines in the Netherealm. The war has resumed once again. This time, the battle CAN be won by mortals!
REAL WEAPON KOMBAT
Characters can pull out weapons that can be thrown, dropped or even picked up by your opponent and used against you.
INTERACTIVE BACKGROUNDS:
Objects in the background can be picked up and thrown at your opponents.
SECRETS AND KODES:
Mortal Kombat 4 is packed with hidden characters, kodes and other features that aren't even in the arcade game!
3D FATALITIES
Watch as brand new and classic fatalities take on a completely different meaning in 3 dimensions!
3D GAMEPLAY:
Characters can now move in 3D to dodge projectiles or pick up weapons.
Enter the sinister 3D realm of Mortal Kombat 4. Shinnok is ready... are you?
So your options are:
1. Use the analog stick of your controller
2. Use your keyboard
3. Try out different methods to make the d-pad work
If you're fine with that, then go for it. Works out of the box on Windows 10.
Tis one of the games I grew up with, and it was my first MK title to have ever played.
Great nostalgia trip just seeing it on here, and honestly, it was a great game for it's time. Still is. Bless GOG for adding it.
I was a really big fan of the original 3 MK games having played them all first at the arcade and later on home console & MS-DOS. Personally I switched over to the Tekken series after that for the better gameplay and more imaginative characters and backgrounds. MK4 did a respectable job in the graphics department, maintained the excellent music and Sound FX the series has been known for (the main reason I bought this on GOG was to revisit the soundtrack - there are 14 .ogg files in the Music subfolder which were originally redbook audio tracks on CD). The gameplay just wasn't as tight anymore with MK4. Try picking Sub Zero and launch and ice attack - see how long it takes for him to conjure up and actually release the ice and you'll see what I mean. I pretty much gave up on the MK series up until Mortal Kombat Komplete was released on PC (a game which I do recommend). I do recall enjoying the Mortal Kombat Mythologies spinoff game and would buy it if released on GOG but I have no expectation since there was no PC version
As a massive fan of the first 3 Mortal Kombats, with Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 being my favorite fighting game of all time, the change in appearance and gameplay that came with Mortal Kombat 4 doesn’t exactly make it my favorite game of all time. Gameplay wise the series never fully recovered again until Mortal Kombat 9 (2011).
I did own it on the N64 back in the day, and it’s okay if you just want a game to unwind with, you can put it on easy and blaze through the game just for the corny endings.
My favorite part about the game and the only thing missing from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, is the addition of the character Tanya, modeled after the beautiful Lia Montelongo (Sindel UMK3), she’s been my main in the game ever since it came out.
Out of respect for it being the last Mortal Kombat game to hit arcades, and out of nostalgia for playing it on the N64, it was worth revisiting.