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Finish it

Finish the story mode and there are still individual campaigns for all characters, as well as additional modes such as ‘Test Your Might’, ‘Test Your Sight’, ‘Test Your Strike’ and ‘Test Your Luck’ all adding their own distinct sideshow.

Mortal Kombat

Can you ketchup?

Then there’s the huge 300-mission Challenge Tower, ever diverting through its range of mini-games where you’ll be fending off waves of zombies one minute, and preventing Mileena from giving you a teddy bear the next - no, really.

Online fighting is available too, offering one-on-one, tag-team fighting and King of the Hill modes. Presently it does look in need of fine-tuning, however, suffering as it is from rather debilitating lag - at least that was the case during forays on to Xbox Live. PS3ers will have to wait for PSN's return.

Mortal Kombat

Someone just watched the royal wedding coverage

Verdict

A cacophony of gameplay options, a meandering adventure and all that gore, makes Mortal Kombat the release that devotees have been waiting for. A lack of cohesion and subtlety might not appeal to all fighting fans, but with so much action exploding around your fighter you’ll be hard pushed to notice. What Mortal Kombat boils down to, is a beat-em-up which reaches for the grandiose over the restrained at every turn and hats off to it for that. ®

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Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat

“Fatality” or “Flawless victory”, Mortal Kombat gets reborn in blood. Available on Xbox 360 (tested) and PS3.
Price: £45 RRP

"Someone just watched the royal wedding coverage"

This gem posted only on page 4!

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Someone just watched the royal wedding coverage

That was priceless.

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sidestepping

I'm sure you were (are?) able to do this in Tekken.

Havnt played it in a few years, so i may be mistaken. One of the things that annoyed me was that the game could descend into a circling match.

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