Despite the recent surge in HD remakes of classic games, the Arcade Kollection is a celebration of unadulterated, old-school graphics and gameplay. This XBLA pack includes authentic arcade editions of the original Mortal Kombat, the ever-popular Mortal Kombat II, and the less-well-received Ultimate...

+ Totally authentic reproductions of the arcade classics; + Three games for 10 bucks?

? Okay; now where's the HD remix

I am a huge Mortal Kombat fan; have been since the original appeared in arcades back in 1992. When I heard a compilation of the first three games was being released, I was ecstatic.

+ Owning all three games in one set; + Arcade filters; + Pure nostalgia

Online is just broken; Weird hiccups and glitches; Classic AI is frustrating (cheap

La série des Mortal Kombat a été bien mal traitée ces dernières années, l'éditeur ayant voulu transformer son titre selon des attentes plus modernes. Alors que le charme de Mortal Kombat ne sait exister que s'il reste dans son domaine, à savoir un jeu de combat dynamique, des combattants riches d'un...

L'ambiance gore du titre; Respect de l'esprit original de la franchise; Un mode Histoire prenant; Un contenu riche gonflant sensiblement la durée de vie; Richesse des coups

Des coups qui pleuvent..; après un passage certain à l'entraînement

Mark Walton slices and dices his opponents in this video review for Mortal Kombat.

One of the most in-depth story modes to grace a fighting game; Revamped control system makes it easy to pick up and play; Huge amount of content to unlock; Challenge Tower minigames and challenges are lots of fun; Viciously brutal moves

Shao Kahn is incredibly cheap; Occasionally laggy online play

Speaking as a fan of the Mortal Kombat series, allow me to say this-we don't come for the fighting. The fighting is secondary. If we wanted good fighting, we would play Street Fighter , or Tekken , or Virtua Fighter .

People want to play a game as Batman; This game allows them to do that

The fatalities are universally terrible

During a time when fighting games tried to copy Street Fighter 2, one challenger to the fighting game crown chose to go in another direction. Instead of having hard and light attacks, there were high and low attacks; instead of using well-drawn animated characters, there were real-life actors...

These games are flawless emulations of their arcade counterparts; simple online match setup and mechanics; allows gamers to pause during gameplay; helpful move list accessible while paused; three games for the price of one is still value even if one title carries the collection

As arcade ports, all the nuisances of these classics come along for the ride including unforgiving and unfair AI; online play is seldom fluid and prone to slow downs and freezing; collection does not enhance visuals or audio in any way; still a great challenge to pull off special movies and the...

Mortal Kombat is the cult favourite one on one beat em up series first unleashed in the early 1990's. At the time the one on one beat em up genre was quickly establishing itself as the most popular in arcades and home consoles and developers everywhere were releasing titles to jump onto the...

After many years and half a dozen mediocre-to-middling attempts to rekindle one of the biggest franchises of the 90s, Mortal Kombat is finally really back. Under the watchful eye of series co-creator Ed Boon, NetherRealm Studios has delivered the ninth game in this long-running fighting series, this...

Summary [9.5 out of 10] After years of shifting to a 3D format, the Mortal Kombat series has come back to its 2D roots and the results are bloody and glorious. Something of a reboot, Mortal Kombat has a lot to offer with a large roster of fighters, a new story, tons of modes, plenty of secrets,...

The main reason to buy this game is if you're a nostalgic fan from the early 90s who wants to relive the series' infancy, or someone who has been holding out for that elusive combination of arcade-perfection and button configuration in an Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 release.