Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2760 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Midway Games Ltd
• Released on: 2006-10-27
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Number of items: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
Billed as the last Mortal Kombat game on the current generation consoles, Armageddon sees a return to one-on-one fighting and playable cameos for every single character from the series.

The lowdown:
This isn’t another roaming beat ‘em-up, like Shaolin Monks, but rather a one-on-one beat ‘em-up that works as a sort of 3D Mortal Kombat Trilogy, with the main draw that it contains 60 different playable characters from throughout the series’ history. In part this is to make up for the fact that the game hasn’t really changed much from 2004’s Deception – although there are new aerial combos and an improved parrying system. Oddly the number of different combat styles for each character has been reduced from three to two though and the once impressive graphics are starting to look a bit long in the tooth. It remains the most accessible 3D fighter around though and still does better at carrying on the original’s legacy than many other franchise sequels.

Most exciting moment:
In order to make up for the lack of gameplay changes, Armageddon includes a huge range of extra options and game modes. The best is Konquest which is a lot more fun than the similarly named game mode in Deception, with a great little arcade adventure containing mountains of unlockables to use in the main game.

Since you ask:
Few of the other new options work as well as Konquest, with the Mario Kart style Motor Kombat being particularly dire. The Kreate-A-Fatality option is also a bit of a damp squib and the Kreate-A-Fighter is only slightly more interesting - and seems somewhat redundant considering how many characters are in the game already.

The bottom line:
An unnecessary sequel but one that’s still hard not to have fun with.-HARRISON DENT

Customer Reviews

Mortal Kombat Armageddon
Mortal Kombat 1 was the first game I ever played when I was 6 so I grew up with it (im 18 now) Motal kombat Trilogy was by far in my opinion the best Mortal Kombat game ever made followed closely by the rest. The idea of having all the characters was great they all had different moves and fatalities and the 1 button fatality cheat just made the game more enjoyable. So here we are now with Mortal Kombat Armageddon.

This kind of reminds me of a re vamp of MKT but a very poor one at that all the characters are here with almost the same moves and what have they done to motaro? hes like a really weak minotaur now, in MKT motaro and the other sub boss characters were really hard to beat and were really powerful to play as , now it seems they have just turned them into weak oven glove wearing sissies, and the fatlaities :( how I miss the old fatalities I was hoping for somethng really cool with this one when they said create a fatality but its a really crappy mecahnic because all the fatalities are the same for everyone and building them up was a pain in the arse. And the create a figther mode is nothing special it's actually pretty lame.

So theres 60 people in this game from all previous mortal komabat games including 2 new ones Taven and Daegon who are the main people of the Konquest mode (which has really improved into a shoalin monks kind of game but not as good). Some of the characters look like they were just thrown in at the last minute such as motaro, Cameleon, Onaga and Kintaro
The endings on this game really suck they arent even endings really just text with your figther doing some moves in the background, and Blaze is far too easy to beat for an end boss. Not like Shoa Kahn in MKT who took ages to beat as an ordinary fighter e.g Lui Kang.

The new mario kart rip off is fun to play though and a good addition to the series they should have added test your might/sight considering his is a finale in the MK series on current consoles.
And the battles can be good with friends and online but other than that this is a really bog standard game that plays exactly like Mortal kombt Deception, The best full 3D MK game (not including MK4) is MKDA so I would Recommend Deadly Alliance or Deception because this one really doesnt have a high fun factor its almost like a fan made game for noobs.
Im just glad the controls are good and the gameplay the graphics are almost the same as the other 2 mortal kombat games on ps2 so nothing special.
Thanks for reading.

Not running out of ideas, just adding ones that don't work
I bought this game simply because I'd bought Mortal Kombat Deception and found it an excellent beat-em-up - violent, engaging, challenging and above all frustrating - it was nigh on perfect. After buying Armageddon the first thing I noticed was that with only 4 characters needing to be unlocked, Ed Boon and co hadn't left me alot to do. However, in setting about doing it, I was pleasantly surprised at the Konquest Mode (which had been the weakest element of Deception). The amount of improvement from Deception's Konquest and this is vast.

New features include Motor Kombat, Kreate a Fighter and Kreate a Fatality. Motor Kombat is an itially interesting, if unoriginal, addition. At first it works, racing against your mates or the CPU to finish first. However, after a while if you're playing on your own, it gets very old, very quickly with 5-6 tracks and only 8 of the 60+ characters available for selection. Perhaps then the Kreate a Fatality feature will improve proceedings. Um....no. Quite simply the number of combos is limited, and the actual fatal moves are rather tame and do not vary between fighters. Plus with no Hara-Kiri option available, after a while you've seen it all. With 60+ characters (as well as your created ones), if each had 2 fatalities and 1 Hara-Kiri, then that's over 180 fight enders at your disposal.

The game's ace in the hole is the Kreate a Fighter mode which, although limited as to the moves etc, gives you a wide range of looks to upset the apple cart with a totally unique Kombatant. There is a problem with this however, in that you can only save 1 fighter per profile, which is a real pain.

Despite its flaws, the overall gameplay of MK:A is just as good as ever, with the same 3D game environment as Deception and Deadly Alliance. A good effort, but could have been better.

The seventh entry and the best one yet
The seventh entry in the ongoing fighting series of Mortal Kombat is a full-blown armageddon, bringing together every bloodletting character in Mortal Kombat history as well as adding new characters eager for violence. This amazing game also featured are Create-A-Fighter mode, Create-A-Fatality mode, and a brand new Konquest mode and not to forget the mortal kart.

A MUST BUY!!!!!