http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:07:50 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/03/002318.php#comment-335978 Well, I'm a little late on the response being that this article is well over a year old at this point, but what the heck? I picked this up fo Xbox quite a while ago. Mainly for the Mortal Kombat games. It is great to FINALLY have a perfect (or at least really close to perfect) arcade translation of MKII. After buying the SNES version (which, considering it was for SNES was rather good, but still off from the arcade), and the disapointing 32X and Saturn versions, its great to finally have this. That only took about a decade to get right. Even though I picked up the collector's version of MK Deception which included MK1 as a bonus, I was still disapointed that it wasn't included on here. It would have been nice to have 1-3 all in one convenient collection. As for MK3, it was kind of a disapointment when it first came out. The subsequent upgrade of Ultimate MK3 in the arcades, and MK Trilogy for the home systems were better (well, the version of Trilogy for PS1 and Saturn that is... the N64 version was pretty bad). I was surprised that they didn't put Ultimate MK3 on this as well, since that was in the arcades. I have the Saturn version of Ultimate, but it still has all the loading, which stinks. It would be nice if they would just release some kind of MK collection for modern systems. I'd love to have Ultimate MK3 and Trilogy in perfect versions with no load times or anything. It would also be nice if they could release some kind of perfect edition of MK4. The N64 version of 4 has good graphics, but did not have the full motion video sequences, where as the PS1 version had worse graphics, but nice video sequences. It would also be nice if they put MK Gold on there as well, which was an upgrade to MK4 with extra characters that only came out on Sega Dreamcast. It was a pretty cool version, but since the system died off and didn't last long, many people never got to experience it. So, yeah, in case you haven't noticed, I'm a Mortal Kombat fan. It would be nice to get some more collection to be released to finally get some perfect, ideal versions of these games. It seems like most, if not all of their previous game system releases tended to have some kind of negative issues on at least some level(some minor, some major). 335978@blogcritics.org Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:07:50 EST