MK: Deception (GC) Gamespot Review

Culex

Banned
8.3

Yeah, it's too bad there's no online play, but you do get two new characters, both playable right from the get-go.

The other thing about the GameCube version of Deception is that many more characters are unlocked right up front (including Hotaru, Kira, and everyone's favorite, Noob-Smoke), so you immediately get a total of 20 fighters to choose from, whereas the PS2 and Xbox versions have only 12 initially playable. This means there's less reason to play through konquest mode, the key to unlocking most of the game's hidden content. Konquest mode is a drag, so this is a good thing.

For a late port port without online play, it didn't turn out that bad after all.
 
so damn late. i hope Midway gets penalised for this and the games don't sell on Gamecube prophesy self fulfills.

How did the Ps2 + Xbox versions score? Much better I thought.
 
I have this preordered and all paid for, but I have very little interest in it and haven't picked it up yet. Maybe I'll get around to it tomorrow. I am not feeling very positive about the new MKs now and Goro & Kahn are just lame. I've already seen their endings and fatalities(and they suck) and that's the main selling point.

I'd rather have no extra characters at all than have them ruin the story like they're doing with Goro & Kahn.
 
I'd rather have no extra characters at all than have them ruin the story like they're doing with Goro & Kahn.

wtf that's like saying you ruined my poop sandwich because you pee'd on it. mk story sucks balls through and through

p.s. why bother at this point midway? and why isn't mario a hidden character like he is in nba street and other 3rd party games
 
Anyanka said:
I'd rather have no extra characters at all than have them ruin the story like they're doing with Goro & Kahn.

You seem to be playing fighting games for all the wrong reasons. :)
 
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Haha that just looks wrong.
 
Anyanka said:
Well MKD's gameplay sucks so what else do I have to be interested in with it?

Er, if you think the game play sucks, why are you even bothering with it in the first place?
 
Lyte Edge said:
Er, if you think the game play sucks, why are you even bothering with it in the first place?


Because I want to have every version. Like I said, I'm not really interested to play it. I'm just gonna buy it anyway.
 
Lyte Edge said:
Er, if you think the game play sucks, why are you even bothering with it in the first place?
He owns like every Mortal Kombat man (even MK:Advance for godsake). I personally would wait until he finds the game for a good price (since he doesn't really need the game right away), or used, but whatever. Let him do what he wants.

EDIT - the endings were alright, and most of the fatalities are weak. You got a big fucking hulk character with four arms, what does he do? Pull out some weak little twigs and attacks you with them, nice. And one of Shao Kahn's fatalities is straight out of WAR GODS for godsake! WAR GODS!
 
LakeEarth said:
And one of Shao Kahn's fatalities is straight out of WAR GODS for godsake! WAR GODS!


Yeah, but Kahn had a similar fatality in MK Trilogy.


Playing through Konquest agian for the 4th time is going to be brutal.
 
I read on a MK Online forum that they removed some of the glitches/infinite combos, only to end up creating new ones in the process. :lol
 
Is the conquest mode changed at all? I don't think I ever ran into Goro or Shao Kahn when I played it so maybe they'll be slipped in there somewhere.
 
Yeah, Bo has a new infinite. Sad.


There's nothing new in Konquest, besides 6 new koffins(for stuff like Goro's alt. costume) to replace the 6 characters that are now unlocked. Both Goro and Kahn were already in it. You see Goro for like 2 seconds fighting Cage at one point and Kahn is in it quite a bit. He's walking around in Outworld over by the army's base. You can talk to him and do this mission where he tells Reiko to stop wearing his helmet and one where you deliever a note to Rain or something. Apparently you can't train with either.

I'm about to go play T5 arcade and pick up my copy. Oh yay!
 
Anyanka said:
There's nothing new in Konquest, besides 6 new koffins(for stuff like Goro's alt. costume) to replace the 6 characters that are now unlocked. Both Goro and Kahn were already in it. You see Goro for like 2 seconds fighting Cage at one point and Kahn is in it quite a bit. He's walking around in Outworld over by the army's base. You can talk to him and do this mission where he tells Reiko to stop wearing his helmet and one where you deliever a note to Rain or something. Apparently you can't train with either.

Wow, I never seen neither of them (and I got all the koffins). Outworld?
 
This is krap. I'm playing as Kahn now and it sucks. Almost all of his moves are just taken from recycled animation from characters like Cage and Nitara, his weapon is basically just the mallet already in MKD and he has almost no chain combos. It figures the new characters would be all half-assed, that's the MK way.
 
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