{"id":955,"date":"2012-09-12T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2012-09-12T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:13:08","slug":"my-top-100-89-mortal-kombat-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"My Top 100: #89 &#8211; Mortal Kombat (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_957\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mk9gotye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-957\" class=\"size-full wp-image-957\" title=\"mk9gotye\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mk9gotye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mk9gotye.jpg 390w, http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mk9gotye-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2011 &#8211; PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 (NetherRealm Studios)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t fan service awesome?\u00a0 <em>Mortal Kombat <\/em>(often called <em>MK9<\/em> for short) delivered pretty much everything the typical old school <em>MK <\/em>fan was looking for.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mortal Kombat: Armageddon <\/em>was\u00a0intended to be the last hurrah for the series when it was released in 2006, incorporating pretty much every character that existed through the years&#8230;\u00a0 the only one that didn&#8217;t make it was Hornbuckle, but only the hardcore fans knew who he was, anyway.\u00a0 At the end of the game, it appeared that the <em>MK <\/em>universe was decimated with Shao Kahn claiming victory over every realm.\u00a0 Apparently, that&#8217;s a bad deal.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Boon was clearly pulling everyone&#8217;s leg.\u00a0 The series&#8217; co-creator managed to twist that ending around, turning it\u00a0into some crazy alternate universe game that only <em>Mortal Kombat <\/em>could ever pull off properly.\u00a0 This was, after all, the series that had pretty much every one of its\u00a0characters die and come back\u00a0with a vengeance.\u00a0 The stories\u00a0were\u00a0over the top and ridiculous since that first game,\u00a0so OF COURSE the storyline wasn&#8217;t over.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NaTWjxIcaXc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The PlayStation 3 version of the game is the one I picked up, mostly due to the inclusion of Kratos (from <em>God of War<\/em>) as a playable character.\u00a0 Apparently, Netherrealm Studios tried desperately to get an exclusive character for the Xbox 360 edition of the game (Master Chief?\u00a0\u00a0Kameo?\u00a0 Erm, Conker???), but things just didn&#8217;t work out for that plan.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, <em>MK9 <\/em>goes back to the basics in terms of gameplay, bringing back the same arcade feeling from the first few games.\u00a0 Gone were the multiple forms of martial arts, and gone was the storyline where everything got convoluted and went to crap; at the end of <em>Armageddon<\/em>, Raiden somehow managed to turn the clock back to the beginning of the first tournament.\u00a0 Far fetched, sure, but this <strong>is<\/strong> <em>MK<\/em>, after all.<\/p>\n<p>The game has a Story Mode that spans\u00a0the first\u00a0three\u00a0games in the series, a Challenge Tower for those who like to switch it up a little bit, a Krypt with endless goodies to unlock, and finally, four downloadable characters; \u00a0Skarlet, Kenshi, Rain and Freddie Kreuger.\u00a0\u00a0Special &#8220;retro&#8221; costumes and fatalities were also added as DLC, which made this the first fighting game (that I was interested in, anyway)\u00a0to still be garnering hype six months after release.\u00a0 The new <em>Street Fighter <\/em>games\u00a0did something similar, but they weren&#8217;t my cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was the fact that I love the <em>MK <\/em>universe, and maybe\u00a0I\u00a0just a yearned for new games not to suck.\u00a0 Whatever it was, I wasted plenty of hours on this one.\u00a0 Thanks, Ed Boon!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_959\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mk9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-959\" class=\"size-full wp-image-959\" title=\"mk9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mk9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mk9.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mk9-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Somehow, this guy seems to fit in nicely.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Isn&#8217;t fan service awesome?\u00a0 Mortal Kombat (often called MK9 for short) delivered pretty much everything the typical old school MK fan was looking for. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon was\u00a0intended to be the last hurrah for the series when&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=955\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mortal-kombat","category-playstation-3","category-top-100"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}