Mortal Kombat-the greates fighting game????

Mortal kombat,i for one feel that the game is the greatest versus fighting game ever made.Now, i know some people might disagree with me on this statement but i'll give you my version to back it up.

Firstly,the game was the first to use digitized sprites instead of cartoony characters that its primary competiton Street Fighter used back in the day and also contained a very involving storyline that takes you into many worlds while playing the game.Secondly it was made by two Americans,Ed Boon and John Tobias which would mean that it would be completely different in comparison to the stereotypical japanese games of the time.

Its now in its 19th year of production and has managed to expand into a mega franchise.It now has 8 versus fighting games,3 action-adventure and also 2 movies in its portfolio,not to mention the ever expanding and popular comics and action figure range.

The story revolves around six realms and a fighting tournament with contestants from all the realms and the ultimate winner would go on to have control over all of them.Natuarally as is the case with most stories there would be bad guys and good guys.The primary bad guy happens to be a giant emperor of the realm of outworld called 'Shao Kahn' who seeks to win mortal kombat and gain control over all the realms and has many bad guys like Shang Tsung,Quan Chi,Goro,Baraka and Reptile to name a few working for him.The only force that keeps Shao Kahn from attaining his goal is the thunder god Raiden and his band of good guys such as Liu Kang,Kung lao,Jax,Johnny Cage,Sonya and many more.Additionally the story also revolves around two important characters such as a cryomancer Ninja hybrid named 'Sub zero' and his arch nemesis who was killed by him and returns from death to take revenge called 'Scorpion'.The story is very well written and expanded and contains may other characters such as Smoke,Sektor,Cyrax,Ermac and many other.

Now for my experience with the game.I did not start with the game like many would and started of with the movie in the 90s which rather fascinated me and drew my attention to the game which i played on the NES.Then i moved on to the PC for Mortal kombat 4 and finally landing on the ps2 for the Mortal kombat armageddon game.The game is very addictive and violent so it is only advisable to be played by people over the age of 18 with the trademark fatalities included.Look out for my next post and hope you had fun reading.