Considering the era, it plays exactly like it should. We had a lot of cool stuff that was never in the arcade version, yet simple flourishes such as sound bytes from the arcade version were outright missing.įor starters, UMK is likely to feel dated by some, but since the goal was an arcade-perfect translation, I can’t fault it for that. Brutalities were added, but many of the new characters’ fatalities were downright pathetic (and don’t even get me started on the animality discrepancies). Bosses were playable via code, but Sheeva was outright excluded. We now had Rain and Noob Saibot as playable characters, however, some of the MK3 stages were missing. (Who remember Rain’s first appearance in attract mode!?) For reasons unknown, UMK3 suffered a strange mutation by the time it hit 16-bit consoles. UMK3 was an arcade mainstay during its time and remains a revered entry in the series. However, Ultimate Mortal Kombat was intended not as a portable version of a console release, but as an updated re-release of the famed Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. In the past, handheld versions of Mortal Kombat have often differed significantly from their console counterparts, due primarily to space limitations, but by the days of the DS, this was becoming much less of a concern.

My obtainment of Ultimate Mortal Kombat happened in much the same manner. Now I’ve never really made a concentrated effort to hunt down unusual ports for the Saturn or other odd but otherwise equal releases, but I have gathered up every major installment in the franchise and continue to pick up the occasional odds and ends when I run across them.

I haven’t talked about it much here at Nerd Bacon, but I’ve been a collector of Mortal Kombat games even longer than I’ve been a collector of video games in general.

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