

Another new feature is that some of the stages have multiple rooms, levels or death traps that you can throw your opponent into.

You can still set the difficulty level in the options if it's too hard. You have to defeat two opponents in the same round and they are on a higher difficulty setting so you can't count on the few cheap moves that you used to beat the earlier fighters. But after a few matches, it becomes incredibly hard. The combat feels really easy at the beginning the opponent does hardly any moves to hurt you. There are some other additions such as the "combo breaker" which enables you to stop your opponent from achieving one of these long lasting combos. The world of devastation is at your fingertips. Talk about moves - there are more than twenty attacks and combos per style, and considering each character has three styles, it means you have more than sixty different moves per fighter, which is just simply amazing. The fans will be happy to see that some of the old characters are back with some new moves and some new killing blows. You get over twenty characters to choose from, each able to fight in three different styles. Like many other games of this kind you have to fight your way through a list of opponents that gets harder and harder as you progress. This wouldn't be an MK sequel without some inexplicable character roster updates. And now once again it's time to stop evil messing around with the Earthrealm and there's only one way to do it: challenge him! Unfortunately, as you can guess, the good guys didn't win.

The game starts with a nice movie explaining how things turned out after Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance ended. The result is that Mortal Kombat: Deception is now surely the goriest one-on-one fighting game on the market. This time, Midway have decided to combine the whole lot - Kombat, Puzzle, Strategy and Konquest - all with online multiplayer capability. Over the years, we've seen it taking a place in the pantheon of gaming classics, due particularly to its graphic violent content - which we have to admit, we loved to bits. Back in 1992, when Midway first introduced the game, it was really impressive to see the fluidity of the characters and the violence of the fights. But, before you have your first injection, let's look at the history of Mortal Kombat. Feeling a bit down about what to play? Well, here is your prescription right here - Mortal Kombat: Deception.
