Mortal Kombat: Deception Review (no fat)

Game Description

You are Shujinko a young boy from earth realm and must embark upon a journey given to you as the elder gods’ champion. You must travel over the years in a conquest to find the Kamidogus for each realm in order to make the portals accessible to other realms. But wait a minute, you have been deceived! An unbelievably powerful evil is unleashed and it can only be stopped by… why ruin all the fun when you can find out by yourself.

Mortal Kombat: Deception Gameplay

MK Deception uses the same fighting engine as MK Deadly Alliance, with the three fighting styles (two hand to hand combat and one weapon). But you can no longer leave your weapon inside your opponent, or throw it at them. Instead of having fatalities on every stage, this game features something unique about each level… all have their own death traps. However, even these don’t end the game and you always proceed to the next round…which might please some fun loving gamers, but it does give the game an unrealistic touch.

While Combination breakers are used to break you out of any combo, to keep things in check, you can only use it three times every match.

Mortal Kombat: Deception Controls

The controls are similar to the ones of Deadly Alliance…a little too similar. Characters from Deadly Alliance have almost all the same moves. Consequently, for gamers who have played Deadly Alliance, it’s essentially the same game with a different plot…and a few features to boot.

Mortal Kombat: Deception features new and creative fatalities. In fact, every character has two new fatalities and a Hara Kiri( suicide). The fatalities are much better than then the ones of Deadly Alliance but, as always, there is still room for improvement.

Mortal Kombat: Deception Game Modes

This version of Mortal Kombat features a variety of game modes including Konquest Arcade, Chess and Puzzle modes. Konquest is the the story mode, (with as many twists and turns as a roller coaster track). You start your conquest as a young boy and achieve your goal as an aged man (sounds familiar?). Instead of helping the elder gods out, which was your original goal, you end up unleashing the true ruler of outworld, Onaga the dragon king.

The Arcade mode is somewhat the same offering different levels of difficulties and the two player option. The additional game modes are the puzzles, with a mix of Mortal Kombat and the chess mode, modified in a way to make a whole new game.

Mortal Kombat: Deception Graphics

The graphics of Mortal Kombat: Deception are not much different from its predecessor, MK Deadly Alliance. However, the new stages are well created, including the deathtraps, and have good textures at all the angles. They look well worked, with some offering weapons others with constantly changing environments with collapsible walls, floors, ceilings and other small traps.

Mortal Kombat: Deception Summing Up

Mortal Kombat Deception lives up to the franchise’s name. Although there may be a few downsides to the game, it is still the best in its genre and it shows great improvement from its predecessors. Anyone interested in the ‘beat’em up’ genre will consider this a game a favorite… even for those not familiar to the MK series (doubt there would be many) this one is recommended.

Mortal Kombat: Deception Cost

Mortal Kombat Deception currently retails at $17.99US at the time of writing.