Mortal Kombat X (2015)

Mortal Kombat X is a fighting game produced by Netherealm studios. It features a story mode, single player towers as well as online competitive gameplay.

The story mode is a great introduction to the mechanics of a fighting game. It leads you through a variety of characters, enabling you to find the type of characters that fit your playing style. It does however only cover twelve members of the twenty four strong roster.

The story itself is good for a video game story. It continues the story from MK9 (2011) and introduces the audience to a new generation of fighters, preparing to take the reigns from their predecessors. The fact that half of the characters we followed in the story were new ones helped ease the changing of the guard. What also helped was that the new characters weren't just created to be a light version of the character, but were instead created to feel unique, despite their heritage.

The single player towers include Klassic, Endless, Survivor and Test Your Might. They provide an adequate challenge for people seeking a quick, single player tournament. The character difficulties can be altered and there are more than enough options to keep you entertained for hours.

Living towers also help kill time as they constantly change. One changes every hour, one a day and the premier tower changes approximately every week or two. This keeps the challenges fresh and allows players to test out DLC characters before buying them (Premier Towers).

Multiplayer and online is where the bread and butter of this game lies. Despite some server issues (factions stopped working again today), this game lives and dies on the addictive competitive matches online and at home. No matter what option you pick, you will find yourself craving that one more fight or rematch. I would recommend finding someone to play with in two player competition as I personally see no better sight than the look on someones face when you perform a fatality on their character.

Fatalities are back as per usual varying between black humour and completely sick, but I wouldn't expect there to be anything different regarding that. They are joined this time around by returning brutalities and faction kills. Brutalities are quick fatalities (not cinematic) that can be performed if a certain number of criteria are met. Faction kills are kills that you gain from the faction you are a member of.

This edition, Netherealm Studios has added a factions points based game. When you start the game, you decide upon a faction and everything that you do in game contributes to your factions points. At the end of the week, the team with the most points wins, unlocking either a new skin or a new faction kills.

Concept art, fatalities brutalities etc can also be unlocked in the Krypt. This time, the crypt has numerous puzzles to solve in order to gain access to everything available.

On the down side. Easy fatalities have been introduced as well as the ability to skip fights. 

Easy fatalities are button prompts for your character to perform a fatality. This, in my opinion, defeats the purpose of fatalities as they were a demonstration of how well you knew your character and their move set. Luckily easy fatalities, as well as fight skip tokens, are limited in number.

All in all, this has been the most solid version of Mortal Kombat that I have played in a while and it keeps dragging me in for more.

Recommendation: If fighting games are your thing, prepare to lose hours.

This game was reviewed on Xbox One.
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