Another tournament with twelve fighters as opposed to seven. Liu Kang, Raiden, Kitana, Shang Tsung, Baraka, Kung Lao, Sub-Zero, Jax, Mileena, Johnny Cage, Scorpion, and Reptile battle in great settings like Kahn's Arena, The Dead Pool, Wasteland, and my favorite, The Portal.
Now the graphics are great, but what's best about this game is definitely the expansion of fatalities and special moves to include different finishers. The Babality move allows you to turn your opponent into a baby (if you're feeling so generous) and the Friendship move allows you to make peace with your opponent by giving them a gift or putting on a talent show for them. Johnny Cage's Friendship remains to be the most arrogant by making an autograph of himself out to his biggest fan. Another excellent highlight is Liu Kang's Animality-Fatality (which would later be introduced in MK3) in which he transforms into a dragon and chomps into his opponent's upper torso.
This was definitely the game where parents started to complain about the violence. What's sad about this series was that even though the complaints got more numerous with future MK's, the gore reached it's graphic peak here for SUPER NES and became much less realistic after this game. Gore-lovers will be well pacified with this release. But (speaking from personal experience) don't show these cool moves to your friend's mother (now this experience took place probably almost 7 years ago, but it's the thought that counts).
Now the graphics are great, but what's best about this game is definitely the expansion of fatalities and special moves to include different finishers. The Babality move allows you to turn your opponent into a baby (if you're feeling so generous) and the Friendship move allows you to make peace with your opponent by giving them a gift or putting on a talent show for them. Johnny Cage's Friendship remains to be the most arrogant by making an autograph of himself out to his biggest fan. Another excellent highlight is Liu Kang's Animality-Fatality (which would later be introduced in MK3) in which he transforms into a dragon and chomps into his opponent's upper torso.
This was definitely the game where parents started to complain about the violence. What's sad about this series was that even though the complaints got more numerous with future MK's, the gore reached it's graphic peak here for SUPER NES and became much less realistic after this game. Gore-lovers will be well pacified with this release. But (speaking from personal experience) don't show these cool moves to your friend's mother (now this experience took place probably almost 7 years ago, but it's the thought that counts).