MK Game Reviews
Here's where you'll find our reviews for the franchise's entries -- from Mortal Kombat 1992 to Mortal Kombat One (2023) and everything in between.
Multimedia: Kombat Recollections Podcast – Episode 01: Arcade Era
Kombat Recollections Episode 01: Arcade Era Join us to listen to our recollections about the early days of kombat! In the first episode, hosts Lyndsey and Brandon Beatty discuss their early memories of Mortal Kombat, starting with the first game in 1992.
Multimedia: Kombat Recollections Podcast – Episode 02: 3D to New Era
Kombat Recollections Episode 02: 3D Era to New Era Join us for our second podcast covering the 3D Era to New Era! Hosts Lyndsey and Brandon Beatty discuss all things Mortal Kombat from the end of the Arcade Era to present day.
Property Review: Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match (2023)
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DC Entertainment/WB Animation, 2023 Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match marks the pinnacle of writer Jeremy Adams’ journey through the Mortal Kombat Legends series, showcasing his enthusiasm for collaborating with Joel McHale as frequently expressed during the Realm Kast podcast. This film serves as the culmination of the Legends team’s collaborative efforts, weaving in several Easter
Property Review: Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind (2022)
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DC Entertainment/WB Animation, 2022 One of the things the Mortal Kombat Legends series has going for it is the infinite timelines. Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind offers up new ideas on klassic characters such as King Kano, a klassic MK character turned from thug to King in this timeline. King Kano also has his followers
Property Review: Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021)
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DC Entertainment/WB Animation, 2021 Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms is the second entry to the Legends series and continues the story from Scorpion’s Revenge. Battle of the Realms tells the story of the second tournament in Outworld where the Earthrealm heroes have to fight the impending invasion of Shao Kahn and his forces.
Property Review: Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge (2020)
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DC Entertainment/WB Animation, 2020 Mortal Kombat’s first foray into animation since 1996 brings us a gruesome retelling of the first game’s events with an extra focus on Scorpion’s origin story. Not straying away from the series’ iconic violence, the blood keeps flowing as multiple characters die in ways on par with, and arguably worse
Property Review: Mortal Kombat: Legacy (2011)
Contradiction Films, 2011 Mortal Kombat: Legacy is what mostly likely started off as a neat idea in someone’s kitchen and transformed into an interesting idea of “what if?” Legacy entertains but struggles slightly within the confines of the Mortal Kombat universe. The premise of Legacy is “Let’s retell the story of Mortal Kombat but with
Property Review: Mortal Kombat Conquest (1997-1998)
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New Line Television/Threshold Entertainment, 1997-1998 By the time Mortal Kombat: Conquest hit the airwaves in 1998, the eponymous fighting game series had hit the big time. The games were already at the fourth entry and two movies had been released. So, what to make then of the live-action television show that brought kombat to the
Property Review: Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (1996)
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USA Network, 1996 There are few properties that scream “You must be a true Mortal Kombat fan to watch this regularly!” other than Defenders of the Realm, the animated cartoon that ran on the USA Network in 1996. Weird characterizations and terrible writing aside, the cartoon did feature some big names in voice acting and
Property Review: Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins (1995)
Threshold Entertainment, 1995 Being the first to do something is not always the greatest achievement. Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins may have been the first CGI animated movie, but that’s not exactly a glowing endorsement. Thankfully, the story and lore compensate and swing the overall product back to neutral territory. Go into Journey Begins knowing
Property Review: Official Mortal Kombat X Comics (2015)
Multiple books, 2015 Serving as the prequel to Mortal Kombat X, the official comic book does an admirable job of filling in the story between Mortal Kombat 9 and the actual game. How deep you want to get into lore is the only factor in judging if you want to read this. The limited-edition
Property Review: Official MK1 and MK2 comics (1992-1993)
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I would have paid a king’s ransom for the official MK comics books when they were released, and 30 years later, they are still worth their weight in kombat gold. The official comic books were collector’s items offered through mail order; an astute eagle-eyed Mortal Kombat head would recognize that these are the comic books
Property Review: Malibu Comics (1994-1995)
Malibu Comics, Multiple books, September 1994 – August 1995 Malibu Comics’ Mortal Kombat books aren’t a half-bad take on the series. Focusing on the first two games in the series, there are 10 titles: Blood and Thunder, Goro: Prince of Pain, Mortal Kombat: U.S. Special Forces, Battlewave, Rayden and Kano, three special edition character books
Property Review: Mortal Kombat (2021)
Mortal Kombat (2021) Warner Bros. Pictures, 2021 Mixed bag comes with Mortal Kombat movie reboot The Mortal Kombat film franchise has been around for a long time, enough to have varying degrees of success and a reboot. That’s where we are with the latest live-action product: Rebooting the tournament to save Earthrealm. Its might is
Property Review: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation New Line Cinema, 1997 Nothing can prepare you for trash sequel Abomination Nothing could prepare you for the abomination that is Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Wildly uneven in just about every category, Annihilation is what happens when your favorite film franchise gets too big for its britches. Let’s not beat around the bush:
Property Review: Mortal Kombat (1995)
Mortal Kombat New Line Cinema, 1995 The best video game movie adaptation ever. Period. Video game adaptations seldom get it right. Whether it’s casting or story elements aped to make a feature film, most movies based on the things we play are horrid. That is until Mortal Kombat came along. While it’s not necessarily a
Game Review: Mortal Kombat One (2023)
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Mortal Kombat circle of life spins on This is the new era. This is a new day. Or is it? That’s just one of the questions that’s lurking in the background of Mortal Kombat One, the newest entry in the long-running series. And, given how beloved Mortal Kombat is around these parts, I was interested
Game Review: Mortal Kombat Onslaught (2023)
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A new onslaught Mortal Kombat, as a franchise, is never afraid to try something new. Sometimes it’s with varied results, but it can never be said that NetherRealm is scared of doing something different with its moneymaker. MK Onslaught, the newest mobile game in the franchise, does interesting things with the lore with slightly above-average
Game Review: Mortal Kombat 11 (2019)
adminGame Reviews2019, fighting game, game reviews, Mortal Kombat 11, NetherRealm Studios, Nintendo Switch, Reboot era, Sony PlayStation 4, Xbox One
The final ultimate chapter “Nothing can prepare you.” That’s the tagline of quite frankly the best Mortal Kombat game ever done. But I’m pretty sure the Boon, Tobias, and the crew at Midway now NetherRealm didn’t anticipate that it could apply to another game in the series. Mortal Kombat 11 snuck in and usurped the
Game Review: Mortal Kombat Mobile (2015)
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Mayhem runs rampant in Mortal Kombat Mobile There used to be a time when a mobile Mortal Kombat game was synonymous with terrible port of a main game, but somewhere along the way, Mortal Kombat Mobile changed that association. While it’s not a flawless game by any stretch of the imagination, it has longevity and