Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition

More like a companion game to the GBA Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance than a sequel, Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition is nearly identical to aforementioned game, and is just as fun to play. The graphics are exactly the same as the GBA Deadly Alliance, which is a rather good thing considering how fantasticly animated and fluid in 3-D they were on the GBA's small screen. Control is as simple as it was on Deadly Alliance, and as in that game you can earn kombat koins to use in the game's Krypt Mode to unlock different costumes, cheats, and fatalities. Also, you can link MK:TE to the Deadly Alliance game to unlock new characters as well. The fighter roster includes old fan favorites like Raiden, Johnny Cage, Reptile, Sektor, Cyrax, Scorpion, Shang Tsung, and Quan Chi; while also including characters from the console versions and ones new to the series. Even though the gameplay between Deadly Alliance and Tournament Edition is basically the same, TE is worth picking up soley because of the multiplayer modes which fully display how fun this game can be. All in all, if you already own Deadly Alliance for the GBA, you'll definitely want to check this out even if you decide not to buy.

Without a doubt this is the best Portable MK Game To Date. for those who never played the older MK gameboy games lets just say mnay of them were lacking in different areas (except MK2 And MK:DA). Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition is more or less everything from the regual console version of MK;DA taht didnt make it into the GBA version. Thats a good thing. It still has the mini Krypt. and features a total of 15 warriors. many of which are hidden. 3 of which are not at all in the MK DA Console Or GBA game. 1 of which has never been in a MK fighting game 9however they were in MKM; Sub-Zero. the action game). all in all there more then enough to keep u busy for a while and its game worth it. The controls are very smooth. not the same as the regual MKDA Console Controls, but not at all in a bad way. I My self have 2 copies of this game i liked it so much.althow there are no alternate costumes there is differnt color combos to give each warrior. for example; scorpions costume can be chnaged from regualr yellow to grey (smoke), green (reptile), red (ermac). and a few others. on the secrets menuthe alternate colors are listed as

scorpion: smoke

scorpion: reptile

scorpion; ermac

exe. so they were obviously meant to be used as alternate warriors (seeing as reptile and smoke have used scorpions moves in the past this owrks out great) also cyrax has an alternate Grey/purple color listed as "Smoke" so seeing as theres 2 smoke costumes in the agme i supsoe he counts as another extra warrior.

Test your sight and test your might are in here as well.

over all the game is VERY VERY VERY VERY Underrated. I recomend this game to anyomne who wants a portable Fighting game.supriseingly this agme can be connected via the GBA Game cable to a copy of MK:DA. unfortunalty only 3 warriors cane be used. they are the only 3 warriors that appear in both games.

and for the Sub-Zero Fanatics out there let me say HE'S NOT HERE!!. However Reptile Is. For those of you who like Mk for the storyline let me say this. one of the hidden warriors has an ending which involves the death of goro. it's very strange that a Minor Portable title would contain such a major plot point. weather or not it will stay canon only time will tell. but it's worth checking out.

over all it get;'s a perfect 10. a rareity for a Portable Title.

and thats saying something.

Mortal Kombat Tournament is basically a revamped "Deadly Alliance."

"Deadly Alliance" was a an excellent fighter that featured several characters from the Mortal Kombat universe. There are many different fighting styles, fatalities (the final death blows for each character) and so on. MK Tournament is basically the same thing with different characters- although much more fantastic(there is a robot, a vampire, a lizard creature as oppose to the regular human fighters).

There are things I dislike about Tournament. Some of the backgrounds and the sound effects are the same as Deadly alliance (Midway could have made some different sound effects). There are some new features like "Race to Raiden" and "Tag Team" but its nothing mindblowing. Tournament is much more geared to multiplayer modes so it would help to have a friend you can play against.

Ultimately, I am recommending this game just because the previous game it's based on is an excellent fighter. If you already have Deadly Alliance, you may want to wait till the price drops a bit to get this one (Of course, If you are a die-hard Mortal Kombat fan, then by all means get it).

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