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.
