Mortal Kombat X

I know that MKX for the PC is a hot topic right now because of the fact that there was news that the latest DLC will be coming to consoles only. Regardless of that though, the game is pretty great. There are tons of people on Steam now complaining and saying that they want refunds because the game isn't complete and so on and so forth. All that is complete B.S

The game itself is very complete. It has a large cast of characters at 24, though its 25 if you preordered and got Goro. If not then he is listed as downloadable content. 24 characters is pretty darn good for a fighting game. That gives you a ton of options for play styles that you can try out, dabble in or downright master.

If that isn't enough, you could buy Kombat Pack 1 which gives you 4 more characters as well. With all those you have returning favourites such as Sub Zero, Raiden, Sonya Blade (my personal favourite), Kitana, Mileena and Jax. There are also new characters such as Cassie Cage who is the daughter of Sonya and Johnny Cage, there is Jaquie Briggs who is Jax and Sonya's daughter.....Just kidding, it's Jax's kid but Sonya didn't get around THAT much.

There is also Kung Jin who is related to Lui Kang and Kung Lao and there are a couple other new characters that are somewhat interesting.

The graphics in this version are great. Mortal Kombat has done a great job making detailed and interesting costumes for their characters and that is one thing I really appreaciate from a game like this. Compared to other fighting games, this one has the best costume design in my opionion. Other games seem to have very basic and boring designs, and I'm looking right at Street Fighter, one of my favourite games, but man do they ever not know how to do good costumes. Ryu and most of the cast have been wearing the exact same costumes for over 20 years.....

Anyway, the backgrounds are also very detailed and nice to look at. Some levels have weather effects such as rain and snow and most just look absolutely vibrant. I also like that you can interact with things from the background which is something they brought over from Injustice:Gods Among US. Though this time you can actually block things that are picked up and thrown at you. In Injustice you couldn't.

Fatalities are obviously back in this game, though most of them aren't all that great. It shows that more thought and creativity went into the Brutalities. Those are way better than fatalities and flow with the game a lot better. While fatalities are done to the other player after you have defeated them, brutalities are done by meeting certain criteria and usually mean performing a move as the last hit on the other player while holding a button or finishing with an X-ray attack , or having them in the right spot and shooting them with a projectile at the right time to get that brutality finish which is a much cooler and flashier finish than a fatality is.

There is also one stage fatality that I know of and apparently an old lady from the background can be used to finish a player off as well. Each character has about 6 brutalities, and only about 2 or 3 fatalities. Though there are also faction kills, which like fatalities are done at the end of the match and again aren't as fun as brutalities. Friendships and babalities didn't make this game though and I'm not mad about that.

While lots of people on Steam complain about the online play, I have had 95 percent great matches in my over 1000 online ranked and player matches. There was so much complaining that NRS included a ping and FPS icon you can view on your opponent before a match so you can decide if you want to play against them or not.

Some people online are trying to play with red ping and red FPS, so no wonder they are having a bad experience. I do notice that for games like this people try to play them on old hardware and then complain about optimization.....

Regardless. Another feature brought over to MKX from Injustice is the level select. Player one can choose a level to fight on or select random and a random level will be picked. Though player two can decide to choose a level as well and if they do , then you get a 50/50 chance that your level choice will be chosen over the other player.

Once thing lacking that I wish they added was a double blind player select. Street Fighter has it and MK should as well so that you can avoid the whole issue of people waiting for you to pick your character so they can pick based on your choice.

There is an option to hide your cursor, but the issue is that you cant see it either and that makes it possible to accidently pick the wrong character to use.

Since MK9, NRS have done a great job with the story mode for their fighting games. MK9 had a really good story and Injustice had a really good one as well. MKX has a decent one, but its not on par with the previous two games mentioned. There are lots of characters but not enough time to flesh them out, especially the new characters. I kind of wish that instead of a story mode with playable fights in between, they just made a CGI MKX movie that you could watch instead.

Street Fighter 4 kind of did this. They released an animated movie that took place before the game, and I liked that the endings in SF4 were also animated in the same style as that movie. MKX though does the usual still images for their endings with a voice over of what happened.

So, is this game incomplete like people on Steam are saying? No. Not at all. Is this game worth buying right now even though PC owners may never get Kombat Pack 2? I say yes. It still has lots of content and there are still quite a few people playing it online, that it's still a worth purchase.

Here is a video of some online matches me and a friend had the other night. Its almost an hour and 20 minutes and it doesn't really get good until I start using Sonya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pXe9gocqXg