Mortal Kombat

The Good
The game itself is great, unlike Street Fighter where you play with cartoonish characters, here you play with digitized awesome characters, which seems like your playing a fight between real people. Every character has a unique story and interesting special moves. Another great thing is the violence - loads of blood, Fatalities - this is the thing which makes this series of fighting games a unique one today.

The Bad
The character roster is not too big (10 characters, 7 of which are only playable) , and the game is quite hard to complete. The versus mode is fun to play for only a little time with your friends, and while the "Test your might" mini-game addition is a better bonus than nothing, its not too impressing. Another thing which i did not like is that about half of the arenas look exactly the same, though there were some unique like the Pit stage where you could do a stage-Fatality, but for the most part the arenas are boring.

The Bottom Line
For the most part a descent fighting game with fun gameplay and mysterious secrets to observe, but the small variety (no too many arenas, half of which look too same, and only 7 playable characters) make it boring quite fast. Still, its the first game of a legendary fighting franchise, and deserves respect from players.