Not least because, in addition to individual 'power move' capabilities, each pugilist offers the chance to swap between three styles of combat with a simple press of the L trigger.įurther adding to the ways you can dispose of adversaries are the environments, which offer plenty of 'death trap' opportunities – essentially ways of ending the fight early, by, for instance, knocking an opponent into a giant mincing machine, or kicking them off the side of a cliff with only a sizeable, spine-loving spike to cushion their fall. The combo moves are more straightforward than those of some rival series, focusing on face button and limited D-pad input, though that's not to say the 30-odd fighters suffer from a limited repertoire. Think of pulling someone's head off so that the spine comes out still attached and work on from there.
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The series was also renowned for its 'fatality' moves, ensuring winners of the best-of-two-bouts encounters could further impose their dominance by terminating their vanquished, helpless opponent in a variety of imaginative, fiercely vicious ways.
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If you're not familiar with the franchise (this is in effect a conversion of a previously released iteration), expect fast, brutal action, and plenty of gore – heavy hits are accompanied by buckets of blood. Select any of these and you're immediately (well, after a considerable loading period anyway), in typical MK territory. Of course, the core of the MK experience is one-on-one combat – sorry, kombat – and as such there's standard Arcade, Endurance and Practice modes available. And yet, that is exactly what you'll find in Mortal Kombat: Unchained. Similarly, if you are tempted by the idea of slotting a beat 'em up into your PSP's UMD slot, your list of considerations is unlikely to include chess and puzzle games as part of the fighting package.
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They wouldn't be unwelcome additions, certainly, just unexpected. When you're looking to buy, say, a car, you don't expect to see coffee-making or joke-telling listed as a feature.