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Subway from MK3, Mortal Kombat movie theme, Mortal Kombat 1 character select theme, maybe one from Deception or X as they have good OST’s. That’s off the top of my head 😄
They took full advantage of this new Era down to the smallest details. Seeing Raiden's body trickle with electricity in real time, the cybernetic augments on Cyrax blink and flash, and most importantly.....HATLESS Kung Lao??? It blew my young impressionable mind.
Man I was so disappointed with this game. Felt like a step backwards from MK3/4. 1 fatality per character and no stage fatalities? Worst-looking Reptile ever? Boraicho? Hsu-Hao?? First game I ever traded in the store
Deception, Shaolin Monks & Armageddon were much more entertaining BUT I like this one too. Deadly Alliance saved the franchise. It was a success in sales plus it has introduced Kenshi, Nitara, Mavado, Konquest mode and The Krypt. I love it
After MK left arcades I remember going in Electronics Boutique and saw Deadly Alliance, had to grab it lol. The new MK1 needs to have Deception vibes and Onaga.
I definitely agree with all of that. But I also think the way they killed off Liu Kang in such a quick and brutal fashion was also a brilliant way to move the series. It gave the story some needed freshness
@@DonYoGi8331 my thoughts exactly dude like if they brought konquest back along with bringing the character onaga. not ever being able to play him bothered me
The best story of the main line games. The dread of the death of Liu Kang and perceived death of Goro, making Quan and Shang the main villains feel like Total threats, making Sub-Zero Grandmaster of the Lin Kuei. They did so much right
As someone who wasn't that good in the first MK trilogy of games because of the difficulty, this at the time new fighting system was so much fun and more satisfying to play with.
Absolutely adore this game. I know it’s common criticisms are pointed toward fatalities and single player content but its combos, soundtrack, and concept alone make this my favorite.
I remember as a kid the Kombo system was very tricky to master, especially the longer ones that characters like Raiden would have, but man was it incredible to see the creators utilize all known forms of Martial Arts for the games
Another great video in the series, thank you! This game was super fun. I remember really enjoying the different fighting styles. I totally forgot that they toned down the fatalities.
When Tobias left, MK almost lost it. Goes to show you how great he was to the team. Thankfully it pulled through. Now its 2023 and its back to 1! Excited to see how this new story line plays out now.
Deception was my favorite but I really liked some aspects of deadly alliance way more. I liked the 3D era the best but that might be because Soul Calibur is my favorite fighting game series so I'm used to the 3D movement instead of just left and right.
This was really great. I'm gonna go back and watch the rest. You perfectly articulated what this game felt like when it came out. I hope you include Shaolin Monks in your series.
MK deadly alliance, I really liked the arenas, the krypt, cooking with scorpion video, making of the game documentary, music video, and so much more. Game play and story line was interesting. It was a huge improvement over MK4. Thanks to deadly alliance I think it saved the Mortal Kombat franchise in a way
It was this game that introduced me to the band Adema! I still love that song to this day. Actually found the ep it was on and bought it hahaha. I had so much fun with this game. Great in depth video and look back down memory lane.
Honestly I wish instead of the variations they would have just updated the fighting style where you got to pick between the three during the match that would have been really awesome if they reworked at instead of the kameo assist
Your first video showed up randomly in my feed. Being that i was 9 when mk1 first dropped and am now 40.. Im roughly 2 hours into nostalgia like no other. Your videos are really cool. Glad they showed up an plan on finishing the series! Got you with a ❤!!
I loved the RPG within the game (I think it was Deception actually). You played as a brand new character but you encountered every MK character along the way, spanning every realm and revealing a lot of lore. There was also a chess side game that was kind of cool (again, I don't remember which game it was in... it could have been DA, Deception or Armageddon).
Deception was THE SHIT. What a cool ass game. Holy fuck, how I loved playing Konquest. Awesome stuff. Not even the new Street Fighter World Tour mode can hold a candle to Konquest. It felt alive. Getting to know the realms, everything, timeless stuff. Way better than the new MK story modes as well.
@@theviperkiller-io5ji nooooo?! It crushed that hero idea and it wasnt any character ..... i mean like the game was good but wasnt understood in connection to a movie.
The darkest story so far in MK franchise. Because of Liu Kang's death, no main protagonist in this game. Every good guys lost and killed by Shang Tsung and Quan Chi. Even Raiden lost against them. The only game where bad guys truly win! This game truly define what MK is at that point - Liu Kang was always their savior, but when he die, all hope is lost. (I don't count MKA coz this game has main hero which is Taven, and he supposedly the one who beat Blaze but goddamn NRS just retcon it...poor Taven)
In the new era MK games, all the main characters died. Liu Kang and Kung Lao died in Deadly Alliance (Kang died at the beginning whereas Lao died at the end), Shujinko died in Mortal Kombat Deception by Dark Raiden, and everyone else died at the end of Armageddon. In MK the only games where the good guys actually won was MK1, 2, 3, & 4.
@@VOAN Shujinko didn't die in MKD. That Raiden ending is not canon. Shujinko was well alive during MKA story mode, Taven encounter him. His bio state that he manage to survive Raiden's encounter. Shujinko did beat Onaga in MKD so is count as good guys win. MKA was supposed to be Taven beat Blaze but yea like I said, they screw it up for the sake of reboot. Plus that timeline pretty much erased thanks to Kronika manipulate Raiden, so technically Raiden kinda "save" it and prevent Shao Kahn's maniac rule. In new MK9 timeline, Raiden win against Shao Kahn and MKX, Cassie win against Shinnok, and later on in MK11, Liu Kang win against both Kronika and Shang Tsung. All this count as good guys win. About new era, we didn't even started yet so we don't know how they story will be and who's gonna die.
@@shawziiz5031Kronika had nothing to do with the original timeline being reset lol. Armageddon Raiden sent a message to his past thus creating the mk9-11 timeline.
@@TheHardcoreGamer1 Yes she is. Ed Boon has state many times how Kronika is the one who architech the entire plot since the very first MK. You can check Behind the Scenes of MK11 video how Ed Boon explain it. And in MK11, there an intro dialogue between Raiden and Liu Kang where Raiden state his vision in MK9 was Kronika's deception. Not to mentioned, we literally saw MKvsDC and Armageddon event during Raiden vs Liu Kang in all timelines. And now in MK1, the brand new era pretty much confirm everything. The timelines was always there, Kronika just kept resetting it to her likeness until Liu Kang and Shang Tsung broke it in their Aftermath fight, resulting all timelines now co-exist in the same multiverse
Drahmin is such an underrated character it’s so sad that we will most likely never see him again as a playable character even though he deserves another chance and they could give him a nice redesign and I honestly think he would play and look great with todays graphics and fighting engines but for some reason Ed Boon dislikes Drahmin a lot which makes no sense in my opinion there are so many other characters that are worse and less likable than Drahmin
I like drahmin too lol, especially his cool ass mask. Boon dislikes him because he was a NIGHTMARE to program, evacuee of his club. I think that’s the only reason 🤷🏾♂️
@@literallyonlyfanz2308 Well they should definitely be better with programming code and everything since 2002 so Ed Boon needs to get over that and bring Drahmin back as a playable character
This one shocked me and surprisingly made me angry that they killed Liu Kang. The game was good and Reptile's ending stuck with me til Deception. I was also hoping Liu Kang possessing Kano's body would come to fruition but they let that one go. A fan can dream. 😁
The fact that Reptiles ending became Canon for Deception was a pretty slick move going forward. The idea that the Deadly Alliance never fully gets destroyed in the end and Raiden was kind of the last chance, even the fact he relieved his status as Elder God to make it happen.
Being someone who has played all the mortal kombats as a kid, I love seeing them show love to all the older mortal kombats that came before it . Mortal kombat 1 is gonna be the new best mortal kombat game !
They were bad cause those games were only known for having better graphics. Everything else about them are terrible. Story is terrible, okay so you killed the main character better give us a new one, there was no new one. Shujinko is an old fart that was killed at the end of the game and I doubt anyone knows who the heck Taven is or even care if he ever return. Both are as terrible as the movie OC that is Cole Young.
@@DonCritic oh you did it was an amazing video but the general response was that they were bad for some reason by fighting game fans. Where i thought they absolutely kicked ass.
@@bradhuddleson5216 the fighting engine in the 3D games were bad. There's a reason why the series went back to 2D with MK9. MK's gameplay doesn't translate well into a 3D environment.
It wasn't really open to the public as a local released to the arcades but in the video History of MK, they picked random cities and left a few cabinets to test out
Dude, your MK videos are spot on! This generation of MK games (DA, Deception, and especially Armageddon) and the ridiculous DC crossover obliterated my love for MK! Fortunately, MK9 reignited it with a big bang and it just went up from there.
Literally, Midway and Ed Boon's Team did the "Jumping the Shark" with this game, killing the protagonist, total revamp of the gameplay and focusing the lore wise aspect of the franchise, that later will expand it. At the end this game pay off two games being Deception and Armaggedon. Kinda lame that NRS doing again and for the third time a reboot, that is lazy and uncreative because they don't how to move foward without making choice and then regret it, for making that choice. Hope one day they can move foward after the Armaggedon events. Excellent video.
I just wish we'd get the 3D era in like a remaster pack, or the whole franchise in one big remaster package. The 3D era wasn't bad, it did get very rough at the end with Armageddon and then that awful,awful MK vs DC thing but the start and middle were good, Dead Alliance was pretty great, Deception was even better and Shaolin Monks still makes me wish to this day that we got that canceled sequel Ice and Fire where we'd play as Scorpion and Sub together. This whole period unjustly gets shit on too much, just because it wasn't the same formula that the first 4 games had. Yet this new 3D period gave us so much cool stuff, a lot more single player fun stuff like the Krypt,Konquest Mode and also a bunch of wacky and weird modes that added to the package.
22:03 I can't believe it. Even if you excuse the technicality of Sub Zero being two different characters in MK1 and MK2, this means that there is not a single character who appears in every single game!
It's still my favorite one. It's not perfect but it was a metal game as a kid. Even has the Immortal Music video By Adema on the disc.I loved the multiple fighting styles and impaling a fighter with weapons that stay in the fighter was brutal. The Crypt gave me one of my favorite MK characters Frost. Killing Liu Kang in the intro was wild.
i own'd MKA when it came out ( I was 7 i think) the intro scared me for some reason seeing liu kangs neck snapped disturbed me (dont know why) so i never played it unless a guest wanted to play it. I remember I got Deception and couldn't stop playing it.
A shame most of the characters that debuted here are seemingly disliked by the fanbase. Though in recent years it seems many want to see more of them finally return playable in some fashion. Kai, Mavado, Sareena, Reiko, Havik and so on. Even more obscure kombatants like No Face and Jataaka. I feel Deadly Alliance is what Mortal Kombat 4 SHOULD have been back in 1997. Sure, MK4 was the first 3D game in the Mortal Kombat series and was fun but in terms of gameplay it was really just MK3 given a three-dimensional skin. This game really deserves more love for getting the then overexposed franchise out of its funk. 😇 I really think Deadly Alliance nailed its presentation. Like you mentioned, the likes of Shao Kahn (as far as we're aware...) and the main hero Liu Kang being killed from the start really let you know the stakes are higher more than ever and this "deadly alliance" is not to be underestimated. And there is also this looming atmosphere of sinister dread, doom, mystery, hopelessness, and seriousness throughout the game's plot, character designs, stages, endings, and even the music. As well as the constant foreshadowing about this "Dragon King" possibly being an even greater threat in the near future despite the current crisis with the Deadly Alliance to the realms. Sure there's some levity via the silly unlockable goodies and Johnny Cage's comical bits like his story info in Konquest Mode and his ending but all the characters are dead serious and no nonsense. 🥴
Great comment!! Thank you!! I agree with everything you said. It would be cool to see some more of these 3D era characters return, cause we really didn’t get to see their full potential
POV your brothers just come home from EB games (GameStop name at the time) and start playing this on Xbox and a 7 year old you is bewildered about the blood and fatalities
There are so many existed forms of Martial Arts, Kung Fu, Wing Chun, Choi Lee Fut, Jeet Kun Do, Judo, Lo Han, Hapkido, etc. not being used here. Since there are so many Ninja Characters in MK, not one is utilized the forms of Ninjitsu.
Cooking with Scorpion broke my young mind and to this day is my favorite thing from mortal kombat ever its on RU-vid if you haven't seen but you must see it lmao
One thing that disappointed me about this game was the final boss of the ladder matches. I wish it was a 2v1 against both of the deadly alliance like both enemies on the screen that would have been 100x harder and more chaotic.
Really weird how MK just died after UMK3. Though, I think the move to 3D didn't do it favors. It probably would have hung in there with 2D digitization for MK4.
