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Review: Mortal Kombat Trilogy |
Mortal Kombat Trilogy for the Sega Saturn has been on hold for over 7 months. Now, after months of waiting, Sega Saturn owners will be able to play what seems like the last 2D Mortal Kombat game. The game features the same number of characters and options that the Sony Playstation offers. That is, 32 characters, 2 Vs. 2, Tournament, Arcade, and over 25 stages. The 32 characters and 25+ stages make their way from: Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.
When compared to the Sony Playstation version of Mortal Kombat Trilogy, the Sega Saturn is virtually identical minus a few misses and hunches. The shadow effects on the Saturn version of the game is a trick in the hue of each character rather than a true transparency effect like the Sony Playstation. The game also tends to slow down once the action gets really furious, specially between the big bosses. On the Saturn positive side, most of the nasty glitches found on the Sony Playstation (and we all know there has been many of these) have been fixed.
The music on the Saturn version of the game is the same as the Sony Playstation one. The sound effects however, fair better on the Sony Playstation as the Saturn ones sound a bit muffled and distant.
Loading in the Sega Saturn version is not as good nor worse than the PSX one. As far as new features, characters, or stages go, the Sega Saturn offers none. Sorry Saturn owners, you waited a whole 7 months to get a game that is exactly the same as the Sony Playstation, no new characters, no new gameplay options, not even a new stage!
The computer plays a little more on the “human” side now, unlike the horrible AI found in the PSX version of the game. The computer will now be human in round one and human in round two as well. There will be no surprises in which you find an extremely easy first round where you can score a flawless victory and then find that the same fate belongs to you in round two.
If you own Mortal Kombat Trilogy for the Sony Playstation or even the Nintendo 64, buying a Sega Saturn version would be a waste of your money. Save the money and get yourself X-Men Vs. Street Fighter when it arrives later in 1997.
- HardCore
