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Chances are you’ll start with something about violence—guts, shattered bones, gonads destroyed like stepped-on grapes. Lower on your list you might mention balanced fighting. A story—something about elder gods and damnation—is probably a final afterthought, like cistern blocks on a shopping list.
Mortal Kombat X delivers all these. It has horrendous, hilarious fatalities which draw gasps then revolted laughter; the most enjoyable, immediate fighting of any Mortal Kombat game; and, quite surprisingly, an actual story.
Admittedly, it’s more gore than Gore Vidal: QTEs of cartoon fistfights and X-rays of exploding testicles illustrate a world where blind swordsmen and fallen Hollywood idols lead military incursions. However, unlike any previous game in the series, it adds marrow to Mortal Kombat’s narrative skeleton. Taking place over 25 years, it fleshes out the histories of notable characters by introducing us to their children (all of whom inherit the fisticuffs gene). It’s batshit, obviously, but so lovingly executed that I was swept along regardless.
The story would be irrelevant if the fighting was rubbish. Mortal Kombat has always felt brutish compared to the elegant flow of Street Fighter 4. It’s about heavy-fisted, filthy pub-fu, with a focus not just on defeating your opponent, but destroying them utterly. This is the most elegant incarnation yet. The returning super meter—borrowed from Street Fighter—adds complexity, allowing you to interrupt an opponent’s combo by using up two bars of the meter and create openings for a counterattack. X-ray moves function like traumatic ultra combos, diverting a fight with damaging and humiliating specials. I quickly found myself experimenting with Ex variations of familiar moves, tagging them onto the end of combos for increased damage. Fighting is the only thing this game takes seriously: startup frames are even shown in the menus, making Mortal Kombat X accessible, but still rich with tactical options.
Systemrequirement
Minemum
CPU: Intel Core Duo, 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon X2, 2.8 GHz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS / AMD Radeon 3850
Sound Card: Yes
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS / AMD Radeon 3850
Sound Card: Yes
Recommended
CPU: Intel Core i5 750, 2.67 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 4 GB
OS: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 / AMD Radeon HD 6950
Sound Card: Yes
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