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Mortal Kombat 4 (1997)

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Yet another Mortal Kombat attract mode, featuring a two battles, a character biography, fatality demonstration and Raiden's monologue ofcourse.

To many Mortal Kombat 4 was where the series really began to slide and show its age, despite the love I had for the series I could see it too. In fairness when it was originally released into arcades back in '97 we had already seen far better fighters with offerings such as Tekken and Virtua Fighter from Namco and Sega respectively. Not to mention, the first version of MK4 released was incomplete missing fatalities and even endings!

However while it was definitely behind some of the other fighters available in the arcades, the Nintendo 64 version of Mortal Kombat 4 can be remembered by me fondly as the ultimate one-on-one beat 'em up on Nintendo 64. Trust experienced Nintendo 64 developers Eurocom to faithfully capture the music, graphics, cinematic (in-game) endings and the bloody fatalities that made MK4 so great. They went a few steps further as well by adding an extra stage aswell as multiple other game modes and secrets exclusive to the home versions of the game.

Because of this, Mortal Kombat 4 is arguably one of the rare releases that is better played on the Nintendo 64 than on any other format.

For more footage of Mortal Kombat 4 in action, click the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt2kR_0zpW4

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