Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection

It’d be like releasing FIFA 07, 08 and 09 – you only need to play the latest, most refined title. There’s been a token effort in presentation – including spinning arcade machines to represent the title you want to play, and those filter effects – but as a package it’s generally underwhelming

The games really just have not aged well at all, and the terrible up-and-down of the matches to get you to pump tokens into the game still remain, making it an incredibly frustrating fight. If you were playing these in the arcades, you may have stopped well before passing the $10 mark.

Overall, the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection is a decent investment, offering three of the most prolific 2D brawlers of the 90s for an affordable price. However, there’s no denying the lack of extra content comes as a disappointment, and the unforgivably messy online component coupled with patchy audio work makes me a little gutted that these classic games didn’t get the digital re-release they thoroughly deserved.

I love Mortal Kombat as much as anyone, and Mortal Kombat II in particular inspired a fervor in my adolescent self that few games have matched before or since. But given how loveably other classic arcade fighters have been treated recently, the problems and omissions make Arcade Kollection nothing but depressing. These games deserve better.

The real appeal of the Arcade Kollection is online play, but unfortunately the game stumbles in that department. All three games suffer from lag of various degrees. At times it was passable, but during some matches the lag got so serious that it made playing nearly impossible.

En raison de son absence de contenu additionnel et de son mode online décevant, cette compilation Mortal Kombat s'adresse clairement aux fans hardcore de la série. Et si on retournait plutôt sur les excellentes versions HD qui cartonnent dans les charts depuis quelques mois ?