Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Review
Back in 1997, a lot of people were starting to feel 2D fighters were starting to look a little dated what with the likes of Capcom and Sega bringing out their 3D titles. Consequently, Ultimate Mortal Kombat was released to a fair amount of criticism despite it being packed full of characters, special moves and plenty of secrets to find. Plus, there was buckets of blood and gore which back in those days was almost controversial since Nintendo wouldn't allow it on their platform.
Fatalities
We all know this very well and UMK brought this in an impressive 5 formats:
Fatality
Blood soaked and usually ripping some part of the enemy off or apart
Babality
Basically turns the enemy in to a baby
Friendship
Gives your enemy a nice little present
Pit fatality
Some stages have a hidden fatality area which requires you to uppercut the enemy off the screen and land in a pit to much blood and gore
Brutality
Punch your enemy to death in an impressive array of eleven hits
Game modes
Although UMK brings together the traditional one and two player modes there is also a 2-on-2 Kombat rounds which runs as a tournament. Each player picks two characters and then enters the battle with a total of 8 players fighting it out until there is one supreme champion. Of course, this will be a blood soaked and brutal tournament.
Ooooh secrets
At the time, there were questions and questions about what these hot amazing secrets were and how to find them. Today all of them have been found and you can pretty much find all of them with a simple search online. So to wet your appetite, here is one to get you started:
On the main menu enter A, C, Up. 8, Up, B, A. Down. This will bring up three secret menu options called Cheats, Secrets and Killer Codes. Check them out and tell us what you think.
Characters
The Mega Drive version has all the characters from the Saturn version, which at the time was a surprise and a welcome one at that given there was much speculation on whether the Mega Drive could handle it.
Scorpian, Reptile were back after being missing from MKII
Kitana and Jade covered the female entrants
From the arcade and Saturn versions, Ermac, Mileena and Classic Sub Zero
Noob Saibot appears as Rain
Classicsmoke! A hidden character who is like a human ninja version of the robot assassin. To unlock him, highlight smoke and hold down HP+LP+HK+LK until the first round begins.
UMK was a great game that brought an amazing end to the Mortal Kombat series back in the late 1990's. 26 fighters on a great 16-bit machine, great stuff!
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Zeeshan Mallick
Co-Founder of SuperRetroGamer.com
