When compared to the embarrassingly anaemic Street Fighter V, seeing a game that is so absolutely stuffed with content is great. Mortal Kombat XL gives you the original game plus all of the DLC. Especially when desirable characters like Goro are going to cost you a few quid on top of the full asking price of the game. It’s one thing getting extra campaigns via DLC but when it is just characters and skins, it all feels a bit of a rip off to me. The only downside to Mortal Kombat X was that a lot of extra content was locked behind some expensive DLC paywalls. Each character also has three fighting styles with different special moves and of course you’ve got all the fatalities and brutalities you can eat. It’s faster and fancier than most fighting games and has lots of fun little aspects to the gameplay such as the brutal X-Ray moves which can turn a fight for you and background interactions that also make things a little more interesting. Set on a strictly 2D plane but with fully 3D graphics (a’la Street Fighter 4), the gameplay feels like classic Mortal Kombat fare. Packed full of content and brimming with humour and gore in equal measure -well, probably more gore than humour to be honest – the game ended up being the best fighting game I had played in years, taking a thoroughly high production values approach to the gameplay of the early games in the series.
So, Mortal Kombat X‘s full-fat gameplay was a real joy.
In all honestly, I hadn’t really liked any Mortal Kombat since Trilogy on the PS1 and the original 2D titles had really dated (as evidenced by playing Mortal Kombat Kollection on Xbox Live Arcade a few years back). Last year’s entry into the Mortal Kombat series missed our review team at the time but I picked it up a little while after it came out and it was a real surprise. Main PS4 / Reviews tagged Beat em up / fighting / get over here / mortal kombat xl by Richie
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