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Mortal Kombat games are some of the most widely recognized fighting games out there. Whether you love the games or hate them, they're damn popular. Next to Street Fighter, this is probably the most popular fighting game series of all. Unfortunately, every previous attempt to bring the series to a portable gaming system is an utter failure. But with the Game Boy Advance released, things were looking promising. It seemed that Midway finally had the technology to make a good portable MK game! Did they succeed? Read on for my review of Mortal Kombat Advance.

PROS:
-THERE ARE A TON OF CHARACTERS TO CHOOSE FROM. Essentially, the list of characters you can choose from is every similar to that of the Nintendo 64 Mortal Kombat title, Mortal Kombat Trilogy. No two characters play exactly alike.
-THE GRAPHICS ARE VERY GOOD. For a portable fighting game, these graphics are excellent. The characters and backgrounds alike both look great.
-THERE ARE A TON OF BACKGROUNDS. The backgrounds make your combat all the more interesting, especially since there are a few background fatalities your characters can pull off.
-UNLIKE SOME EARLIER MORTAL KOMBAT BLUNDERS, THIS GAME IS UNCENSORED! Early Game Boy and Super Nintendo Mortal Kombat games were censored for reasons unknown, but this is a mature-rated game, in all its bloody glory.

CONS:
-THE ANIMATION IS JUST TOO CHOPPY. Everything in the game looks good except for the movement of the characters. Their movement is just too choppy! And this can really mess up your response times in battle.
-THE GAME FORCES YOU TO USE THE GAME BOY ADVANCE'S SHOULDER BUTTONS. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - WHEN YOU ARE DESIGNING A GAME FOR THE GAME BOY ADVANCE, YOU WANT TO MAKE USAGE OF THE SHOULDER BUTTONS MINIMAL. Unfortunately, one of the most important commands in the game, block, requires usage of the R button. When will game makers learn? Okay, okay, this one is more Nintendo's fault than anyone else.
-MORTAL KOMBAT IS A SIX-BUTTON GAME, BUT GAME BOY ADVANCE HAS FOUR BUTTONS. This means instead of high and low punches and kicks, you only get one punch and one kicks. This just butchers the gameplay.

OVERALL:
Midway just can't take a hint - every time they make a portable Mortal Kombat game, it fails terribly. They need to quit trying while they're still ahead. If you want a good fighting game for the Game Boy Advance, look elsewhere, because this ain't it!

If I remember correctly, in an old issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly (probably the most respected magazine for console gaming), Dan Hsu gave this game a rating of a 0/10; making this to my knowledge, the lowest rated game ever ever reviewed by them. He spoke of numerous glitches in combat itself and combos not being added up correctly... just a blatantly terrible game.

This game is the best when i first got is i thought it was dark but it is no at all the contrest can be changed in options and the game difficaly also the game is hard buy not impossiable p.s. megamanis harded by far for example megaman and bass.The game has 23 charecters and three secret they are shou kan motaro and human snoke the fatalitys are easy to pull of and so are the moves. I recomend this to awry mk fan and if your not a fan your dumb