Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
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| Developer(s) | Midway |
| Publisher(s) | Midway |
| Series | Mortal Kombat |
| Release date(s) | November 20, 2002 |
| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | BBFC: 18 ESRB: Mature (M) OFLC: MA15+ |
| Platform(s) | GameCube, PS2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance |
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is a fighting game developed and produced by Midway. It is chronologically the fifth in the Mortal Kombat series. Deadly Alliance was released for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance on November 20, 2002.
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[edit] Roster
[edit] New characters
- Blaze — An elemental warrior bound to guard the last Great Dragon egg (secret character).
- Bo' Rai Cho — Martial arts master from Outworld. Instructed both Liu Kang and Kung Lao (available from the beginning).
- Drahmin — Netherealm demon (Oni) - maintains self-control with a mask (unlockable character).
- Frost — New student of Sub-Zero, she shares his skill with ice (unlockable character).
- Hsu Hao — Mavado's henchman (unlockable character).
- Kenshi — Blind warrior, renowned for his swordfighting skills, seeks revenge on Shang Tsung for blinding him in treachery (available from the beginning).
- Li Mei — Outworld fighter, attempting to rebel against the Deadly Alliance (available from the beginning).
- Mavado — Leader of the Red Dragon Clan. Mutilated Kabal and stole his hookswords. Seeks to wipe out the Black Dragon (available from the beginning).
- Mokap — A character who is said to have done motion capture work on Johnny Cage's films. (secret character).
- Moloch — Netherealm demon (Oni), sub-boss (unplayable character).
- Nitara — Outworld vampire - primary interest is to restore her original realm (unlockable character).
[edit] Returning characters
- Cyrax — Sub Zero's former assassin now works for the Outworld Investigation Agency and is stranded in Outworld. Also agrees to help Nitara gain an Orb in exchange for his return to Earth (unlockable character).
- Jax — An angry member of the Outworld Investigation Agency who seeks to kill Hsu Hao for the murder of his allies (unlockable character).
- Johnny Cage — Hollywood Actor who returns to aid his friends and Raiden in the struggle to save Earthrealm from The Deadly Alliance (available from the beginning).
- Kano — A Mercenary who pledges his loyalty to Shang Tsung and Quan Chi (available from the beginning).
- Kitana — The Princess of Edenia, who looks to destroy Shao Khan and his forces (unlockable character).
- Kung Lao — An enraged member of the White Lotus Society who seeks the destruction of Shang Tsung for murdering Liu Kang (available from the beginning).
- Quan Chi — The powerul sorcerer who looks to gain military power once the Dragon King's undefeatable army is resurrected (available from the beginning).
- Raiden — The thunder god who has relinquished his status as an Elder God to help his champions in the war against the Deadly Alliance (unlockable character).
- Reptile — The horrid reptilian creature that looks for a new master (mostly in Nitara) (unlockable character).
- Scorpion — The Hell-spawned spectre who seeks the destruction of Quan Chi for murdering his family (available from the beginning).
- Shang Tsung — The powerful sorcerer who seeks eternal life. Through his alliance with Quan Chi he hopes to accomplish this (available from the beginning).
- Sonya Blade — Member of The Outworld Investigation Agency who enters Outworld in search of missing agents Kenshi and Cyrax (available from the beginning).
- Sub-Zero — The legendary ice warrior who has not only reformed the Lin Kuei clan as a clan of good, but also is the Grandmaster of the Lin Kuei and the bearer of the legendary Dragon Medallion (available from the beginning).
[edit] Bosses
Shang Tsung and Quan Chi are the bosses in Deadly Alliance (their exact order is random), while Moloch is the sub-boss.
[edit] New to the series
- MK:DA's character models are vastly improved over those of Mortal Kombat 4.
- MK:DA's characters have two unarmed martial arts styles and one weapon-based style, which they can switch between with the push of a button.
- MK:DA has a "Krypt," where the player can buy things like outfits, hidden characters, and neat extras with Koins earned in regular play and in Konquest Mode.
- MK:DA introduces a "Konquest Mode," which expands on the storyline and acts as a tutorial for each character.
- MK:DA was never released in arcades, and instead went straight to consoles.
- Test your Might returns for the first time since the first game, and a similar addition, Test your Sight, is also present.
[edit] Gameplay
- This game drops running entirely, as well as the associated "run meter."
- Characters now each have multiple fighting styles (with the exception of Blaze and Mokap, who only have three hand-to-hand fighting styles and no weapon style). In previous games, aside from "dial-a-combos" all the characters fought virtually identically, with only special moves to differentiate them.
- Overall, the number of special moves per character (usable in any fighting style) has been drastically reduced, varying only from two to four for most.
- While still limited to only moving into the background and foreground, movement in the third dimension is much easier and can be used continuously (in Mortal Kombat 4, one sidestep could be performed at a rate of about one a second).
- Like Mortal Kombat 4, invisible boundaries restrict fighting to the current arena. However, in MK:DA, they appear as temporary walls that fighters can be slammed up against for extra damage.
- Environmental interaction is present, but infrequent. Several levels include obstacles - such as pillars or statues - that can be shattered to damage an opponent standing behind one, and one level (the Acid Bath) does damage directly to fighters that stray too close to special acid-vomiting statues.
[edit] Storyline
While fleeing from Scorpion in the pits of the Netherealm, Quan Chi discovers an ancient tomb which contains the remains of the mummified bodies of the army of the Dragon King, the first emperor of Outworld (and the inspiration for the MK Dragon logo). Learning that the army is invincible and undefeated while resurrected, he realizes that he must find a way to implant warrior souls to fully resurrect the army. Therefore, he proposes an alliance with the evil Shang Tsung where his part of the deal will be immortality if he agrees to help him in his quest. Shang Tsung accepts the deal and the Deadly Alliance is born. However before they could begin a total domination of the realms, the two sorcerers decide to destroy the only two beings that could prevent their goal of absolute conquest. The first was Shao Kahn, the Emperor of Outworld, who was murdered by the two sorcerers after they had made a false show of allegiance. They then travelled to Earthrealm by means of a powerful mystic portal known only to sorcerers and deities, and attacked the undisputed and reigning champion of Mortal Kombat: Liu Kang. Though Tsung was clearly losing the battle, Quan Chi's interference assisted Shang Tsung in gaining the upper hand. Because of this, Tsung accomplished a goal that he had set out since his defeat at the hands of Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat, killing Liu Kang.
After consuming his soul, they returned to outworld where the souls of defeated warriors are used to resurrect the army of the Dragon King. Should they succeed, they will be fully unstoppable. Meanwhile in Earthrealm, another alliance is being formed- Raiden and Earthrealm's greatest warriors have reunited to kombat this new evil alliance.
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance follows Mortal Kombat Gold and comes before Mortal Kombat: Deception.
[edit] Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition
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| Developer(s) | Midway |
| Publisher(s) | Midway |
| Series | Mortal Kombat |
| Release date(s) | August 25, 2003 |
| Genre(s) | Fighting game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Mature (M) |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition is the second of two Game Boy Advance ports of MK: Deadly Alliance. Although they featured 2D sprites, these were the first Mortal Kombat titles on a handheld game console that had 3D style gameplay. The original character roster of Deadly Alliance was split for the two GBA titles:
- Shang Tsung, Quan Chi and Scorpion were included in both titles.
- Blaze, Mokap and Moloch were not included in either title.
- Frost, Jax, Sub-Zero, Kano, Kung Lao, Kenshi, Kitana, Li Mei, and Sonya Blade were only included in the first Deadly Alliance port.
- Bo' Rai Cho, Cyrax, Drahmin, Hsu Hao, Johnny Cage, Mavado, Nitara, Raiden and Reptile were only included in Tournament Edition.
Tournament Edition builds on the story of Deadly Alliance by including three extra characters that were not in the original versions. These were Sektor, Noob Saibot and Sareena.
[edit] Trivia
- Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance was once expected to make its arcade debut back in 2000, but for a variety of reasons, it never showed up. Midway then decided to make Deadly Alliance a direct-to-console game.
- There was a five-year gap between the previous Mortal Kombat fighting game (MK4 and Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance), though Midway had released one other non-versus-fighting Mortal Kombat title in between.
- This game resuscitated a series that had been waning during the late 1990s. Except for Mortal Kombat 4, the franchise mostly spawned failed and mediocre projects. The animated series Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm lasted for four months in 1996. In November 1997, the movie Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, the sequel to the successful 1995 original, flopped in theaters. The live-action TNT series Mortal Kombat: Conquest lasted for only one season in 1998 despite strong ratings (lack of funding prevented a planned second season from getting the green light). Meanwhile, on the game front, the side-scrolling Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero (1997) was met with limited interest, followed by the mediocre Mortal Kombat Gold. The disastrous Mortal Kombat Advance and Mortal Kombat: Special Forces were the final straw for Midway, which saw the resignation of MK co-creator John Tobias in 2000 along with several members of the company's staff. This unsavory chain of events led to the MK franchise going on a two-year hiatus.
- Many of the game's endings assume, as per previous games, that the forces of good triumph. Kung Lao defeats Shang Tsung, Raiden returns to Earth to watch over the realm, Sonya becomes a General (her alternate outfit in the game). However, when Mortal Kombat: Deception was released, it transpires that the Deadly Alliance was in fact successful in resurrecting the Undefeatable Army, and Tarkatan warriors killed the Earth heroes, making Deadly Alliance the first game in the series to have a canonical ending that involves the heroes losing and the villains emerging victorious.
- American rock band Adema recorded a song for the game titled "Immortal" as well as a music video. The song was present in many of the game's commercials and the music video present within the game's extras.
- There is an unlockable video called "Cooking with Scorpion", in which Scorpion is teaching his viewers how to cook. The video however only lasts a bit over 10 seconds.
- MK: Tournament Edition was the first main Mortal Kombat title that Sub-Zero was not available. Though since Noob Saibot, the original Sub-Zero, was put in the game, it could be argued that there is at least a Sub-Zero.
- A small glitch exists in this game. If you unplug the controller at the loading screen and plug it back in, you can move around and fight before the match officially begins.
- One of the unlockable items from the Krypt is a CGI bag of adult diapers (complete with advertisement text). This is nod to a long-standing joke/urban legend that gamers will wear diapers to keep from having to take restroom breaks at crucial times. (This is similar to the urban legend that casino patrons will wear diapers in order to increase their chances of hitting jackpots on slot machines.)
- The only game in the series which Liu Kang is not available in the roster.
- This is the last game thus far to feature Sub-Zero and Scorpion in their Unmasked forms. From Deception and onwards, they would be masked characters.
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