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Mortal Kombat II (1993) Online
Original Title :
Mortal Kombat II
Genre :
Video Game / Action
Year :
1993
Cast :
Richard Divizio,Ho-Sung Pak,Carlos Pesina
Writer :
Ed Boon,John Tobias
Type :
Video Game
Rating :
8.2/10
Mortal Kombat II (1993) Online

Following his defeat, Shang Tsung begs his master, Shao Kahn, to spare his life. He tells Shao Kahn that the invitation for Mortal Kombat cannot be turned down, and if they hold it in Outworld, the Earthrealm warriors must attend. Kahn agrees to this plan, and restores Tsung's youth. He extends the invitation to Raiden, who gathers his warriors and takes them into Outworld. The tournament is dangerous, as Shao Kahn has the home field advantage, and an Outworld victory will unbalance the furies and allow Outworld to subsume Earthrealm.
Cast overview:
Richard Divizio Richard Divizio - Baraka / Kano (voice)
Ho-Sung Pak Ho-Sung Pak - Liu Kang (as Hosung Pak)
Carlos Pesina Carlos Pesina - Raiden
Daniel Pesina Daniel Pesina - Johnny Cage / Sub-Zero / Reptile / Scorpion
Katalin Zamiar Katalin Zamiar - Kitana / Mileena
Anthony Marquez Anthony Marquez - Kung Lao
Phillip Ahn Phillip Ahn - Shang Tsung (as Phillip Ahn M.D.)
John Parrish John Parrish - Jax
Steve Ritchie Steve Ritchie - Shao Kahn (voice)
Jon Hey Jon Hey - Raiden (voice)
Vince Pontarelli Vince Pontarelli - Speech (voice)
Dan Forden Dan Forden - The 'Toasty!' Guy (voice) (as Dan [Toasty] Forden)
Ed Boon Ed Boon - Scorpion (voice)

Fatality moves can be controlled manually, such as sliding their enemy off Tomb spikes, aiming Kung Lao's hat throw and intensifying Raiden's electrocution, as well as making Johnny Cage knock two or three heads off.

Baraka's first mask was bigger and looked like Shrek. It didn't work out. Afterwards they bought a Nosferatu mask and attached bigger teeth to it, which led to the Baraka as portrayed in the game.

Jax was originally going to be named Stryker, a name that would later be used for a whole other character in Mortal Kombat 3 (1995). The character eventually called Jax would have been in the first game in Sonya's place with her backstory if things had gone according to plan back then.

The name of the hidden character Noob Saibot is the last names of game creators Ed Boon and John Tobias spelt backwards.

Brian Glynn's sprites as Shao Kahn had to be increased to make him appear taller in respect to the other characters. In reality, Brian was one of the shortest actors on the set filming his moves.

According to John Tobias, Noob Saibot is Sub-Zero from the first tournament. In Mortal Kombat II, Sub-Zero is the younger brother of who is now Noob Saibot, formerly Sub-Zero.

No projectiles can harm Jade.

The "Toasty!" face is sound designer Dan Forden.

The Raiden Hat no longer exists, it was destroyed when Carlos Pesina fell on top of it towards the end of filming

First appearance of the characters of Smoke, Jade, and Noob Saibot (though none of them are playable.)

First appearance of Kung Lao, Baraka, Kitana, and Mileena.

Kitana and Mileena are over 10,000 years old.

It takes 250 versus battles to enable and play the classic video game, Pong (1972).

When the first Mortal Kombat was released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo, who had a family acceptability policy that included the prohibition of graphic depictions of death and excessive violence in games released on its systems, asked for the gore from that game to be removed and to tone down the more gruesome fatalities. Consequently that version sold poorly. As a result, Nintendo finally agreed to capitulate on those guidelines for Mortal Kombat II and allowed all the original gore and fatalities to appear in the US and UK SNES versions (the Japanese version was censored, such as having green blood), but still put a warning on the box. The SNES version was considered to be the best home version available and its sales reflected that.

First game to feature Shang Tsung in a young body.

First appearance of the now-iconic villain in the series, Shao Kahn.

Kano and Sonya are the only playable characters from the original not playable here. They appear as prisoners in one of the levels.

In the Forest stage, Jade or Smoke may peek out from behind the tree during a match.

Mortal Kombat II was released on Sony Playstation 3 in April 12, 2007, with an online play feature and upgraded graphics and sound.

In the Pit II stage, two characters based on Liu Kang stand on the bridge in the background. One swaps his red clothing for green and was known to fans as Hornbuckle for a long time because of a joke hidden in Sega Genesis & SNES versions of the game. The other was called Torch, at least until Midway feared legal action from Marvel concerning the Fantastic Four character the Human Torch; Midway then changed his name to Blaze and made him an official character starting with MK: Deadly Alliance in 2002.

Shang Tsung has a secret third Fatality in which he morphs into Kintaro to punch the loser's torso across the screen, leaving the legs standing as they were.

First appearance of Babalities, finishing moves that turn the opponent into a baby version of the defeated character.

First appearance of Friendships, finishing moves in which the winner offers the loser a token of friendship instead of dismemberment.

In Shao Kahn's arena, the audience only cheers when the boss attacks the player.

Daniel Pesina, who played Johnny Cage and all the ninjas, also worked as fight choreographer.

Baraka was at one point going to have a blade spin move, but this was removed to balance him out more. However, this move did eventually get restored for Mortal Kombat Trilogy (1996).

In Sub-Zero's ending, the guy unmasked in the Sub-Zero costume is not Daniel Pesina.

Shang Tsung laughs in his winning pose only in the Arcade and Saturn versions.

In the arcade version, the first round loops the first half of the music and the second/third rounds loops the second half of the music due to memory limits.

In the Sega Saturn version, the player cannot throw the CPU. If attempted, the CPU will actually throw the player.

The "Blue Portal" is a secret stage replacing Goro's Lair, found only on Sega Genesis.

Jax was originally conceived as simply a kickboxer, but the idea was scrapped due to potential similarities to Balrog and Sagat from the Street Fighter series. Then he was given a yellow martial arts gi and big metal hands that clanged upon impact. However, the outfit concealed much of the impressive physique of actor/bodybuilder John Parrish, so he simply went shirtless with long black tights. Game footage was actually shot with Jax wearing the yellow costume, and Parrish accidentally split the pants during filming. He had the bionic implants painted onto his arms for Mortal Kombat 3 (1995).

Steven Ritchie, who provides the voice of Shao Khan, is responsible for the franchise's name. He once sat in Ed Boon's office during the production of the first game where he noticed Boon's whiteboard had the word "combat" written on it, except some goofball crossed out the "c" and wrote a "k" near it. Ritchie then suggested "Mortal Kombat" as a play on the term "mortal combat" - that is, a fight to the death - and Boon later said it "just stuck" after that.

On very rare occasions, Jade or Smoke may appear in a geyser of fire right before a round starts to offer the player clues as to how to find them.

Richard Divizio played Kano in the first game and Baraka in the second game. But for public appearances he also acted as Scorpion.

Kyu Hwang and Michael Dow both were to play a character in the second game but their characters were cut out.

In 1996, Mortal Kombat II was released for Sony Playstation in Japan, selling only 1,000 copies.

Baraka was originally conceived as a ninja-like character with yellow and red robes and a human face, with hookswords instead of arm blades. These hookswords would later be used as the trademark weapon of Kabal from Mortal Kombat 3 (1995) onwards.

In the Tower and Portal stages, the floating characters wearing purple garments are monks.

Two additional fighters where planned to be made for this game. A female kickboxer named Cathy Long (Or Kathy?) And TuWang. They where dropped due to time constraints.

Raiden's name was originally spelled with an "I" in both Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 (as seen in the arcade versions). When Mortal Kombat was released to home systems such as Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive, his name became "Rayden". This was to avoid legal troubles with the already released aircraft shooting video game called "Raiden". Beginning with MK4, Raiden would have his name spelled as intended in all versions of every game.

Original concept art shows Shang Tsung with a demonic mask on.

In Mortal Kombats concept stage, a character was scrapped who was to have been Shang Tsungs daughter named Kitsune. She makes her debut now in Mortal Kombat II as Kitana!

Striker was a character that was converted to be in the original Mortal Kombat game. However after scrapping the original concept of a female character it was decided to change Striker to a female character and name her Sonya. Once again for Mortal Kombat II the development team.at Midway concepted Striker once more. However after some time developing the character the name was changed to Jax. Striker would again be concepted and finalised in MK3.

MKII introduced the juggling system.

Kintaro was originally going to look like the Kellogs Frosties Lion in a karate suit that resembled Ryu from Street Fighter. However it was soon decided to drop the outfit and give the character 4 arms like Goro and be a distant cousin of the previous games sub-boss.

Midway where actually excited to take on developing a Star Wars game after the release of MK1. However they found themselves ordered to make a sequel to Mortal Kimbat instead due to its overwhelming popularity.

The original concept was that all beings from Khans outworld had faces like Baraka and Mileena with the sharp teeth. This included Shoa Khan. It was later changed to what he is known as now.


User reviews

Winawel

Winawel

The visual style and finishing moves stand out most in my mind. Like its predecessor, Mortal Kombat 2 uses digitized actors except everything has a more colorful, more fantastic, slightly animated, slightly photoshopped, appearance. Neither cartoony nor real. Somewhere inbetween. Combined with the games moody, atmospheric, lo-key music; the game's darker, more dynamic and visually interesting backgrounds; the more intense announcer whose voice takes on a menacing quality. And MK2 succeeded in attaining the appropriate tone for an other-wordly over the top fighting game with gore galore.

The trademark Fatalities return with a vengeance. Going bigger, more over the top, than the original Fatalities – delivering some of the best in the series. It hits a good mixture of dark, violent, slightly fantastic, some slightly humorous, and all outrageous -- Jax smashes someone's head, Kitana delivers a kiss that makes them inflate and explode, Kung Lao cuts them in half with his hat, Liu Kang morphs into a dragon, Sub-Zero throws an explosive ice-ball, Scorpion still has his trademark "Toasty" Fatality, and my personal favorite: Shang Tsung morphs into the four-armed monstrosity, Kintaro, and punches his victim in half.

In addition to not one but two fatalities per character, everyone receives two joke finishing moves -- friendships and babalities (the former, funny. the latter, pointless.) Friendships range as much as Fatalities in diversity, only in the goofy department. From Kitana baking a cake, to Reptile advertising a doll, to Liu Kang breakin' down with a disco-ball. Hey, if the Fatalities themselves weren't enough clue that this violent game has a sense of humor, here's the Friendships. Babalities? Turn your opponent into a baby. "Woopee."

The game play deepens significantly from its predecessor (which, granted, MK was pretty shallow as fighting games go.) Like Mortal Kombat 1, all of the characters share all the same basic punches, kicks, uppercuts, jump heights (etc) which again gives the character-specific special moves all the more emphasis and importance in differentiating the characters. Mortal Kombat 2 features special moves that flow more naturally, more fluidly, into high damage combos/juggles (watch a Kitana player for a crash course.)

An expanded character roster – dropping two characters from the previous game (Kano and Sonya), MK2 added five new characters to the lineup including Kung Lao, Kitana, Jax, Mileena, and Baraka, and finally making two previously unplayable characters playable (Reptile, and the shape-shifting Shang Tsung). Returning characters, naturally, receive a few upgrades. Lui Kang gets a little more color to his costume, and gains a low fireball, and a bicycle kick. Sub-Zero can now freeze the ground and make his opponents slip. Johnny Cage has a shadow uppercut to match his kick, just to name a few.

MK2 drops the endurance matches, the mini-games, replaces the underwhelming Goro with the bigger, badder, faster (not to mention far more interesting) Shokan Kintaro. Then further adds a taunting boss, Shao Kahn. Both bosses possess moves that start faster than any playable characters, and feature less recovery time. Oh yes, they also do far more damage than any individual move a playable character could unleash.

Once again, Mortal Kombat delivers bosses who play by a different set of rules. In MK2's defense, at least the Kintaro and Shao Kahn battles still entertain, which I can't say the same for a few future MK games (MK3, Deadly Alliance.) Overall, MK2 doubles everything the first game offers, and delivers a game infinitely superior to its predecessor. It looks better, it sounds better, it plays better.

Mortal Kombat II rocked.
Lesesshe

Lesesshe

Mortal Kombat II is, without a doubt, the best fighting game ever made. As graphics and sound quality are irrelevant factors in game quality, the 16-bit sound and video on its Super Nintendo version are more than sufficient (as a side note, despite its obsolete technology, the SNES is still the best console ever because the games made for it were more fun than any game on any other system with the possible exceptions of Red Faction for the PS-2 and Perfect Dark for the N64). What makes MKII so wonderful is in the personality its characters have and the well-developed game mechanics.

A problem with too many games in the fighting genre is that the developers decided to subdivide attacks by strength or speed (Killer Instinct is the worst offender). I always enjoyed the fact that the Mortal Kombat series divided by height (Low Punch/High Punch, Low Kick/High Kick) instead. Also, the Mortal Kombat series is alone in having a meaningful block function (absent from the Street Fighter series, as well as Killer Instinct, Primal Rage, and Virtua Fighter). Beyond that, special moves are meaningful and distinct, and although some have the same basic principle (for instance, Scorpion's harpoon, Sub-Zero's freeze, and Reptile's force ball are all projectile attacks to disable an opponent), they all look and act differently (in the previous example, the freeze does no damage, the force ball is the slowest attack in the game and easily jumped over, and the harpoon can be stopped if Scorpion's hit while it's in the air).

Anyway, the point is, Mortal Kombat II, particularly with a human opponent, is incredible fun. I play between 2 and 3 hours a week against other people, still. This is the finest fighting game ever made, and it's worth the 40 bucks or so to buy a used Super Nintendo just to play it.
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Mortal Kombat and its sequels are some of the greatest games ever created! It has a good story, incredible action, great music, awesome characters, very fun, really interesting looking stages, and more! Below is an In-depth review of the game called Mortal Kombat II!

Story: Many fighters around the world enter this deadly tournament. Since now the contest is in Shao Khan's hands it will become much more difficult for the Kombatants to win!

The Kombatants!

Liu Kang - This Chinese warrior is a fearless fighter who is bent on getting revenge!

Johnny Cage - An action movie star, Cage enters Mortal Kombat!

Lord Rayden - Is it true Lord Rayden is the God of thunder?

Shang Tsung - This old shapeshifting fighter is one of the greatest fighters ever in the history of the world! He has the power to take a living being's soul!

Scorpion - A poor soul, when he was a live his wife and child were murdered by Sub Zero and the Lin Kuei clan of ninjas. Scorpion with his trusty spear is seeking revenge on the cold one.

Sub Zero - The murderer of Scorpion's family is in the tournament. Now it will be a big showdown like never seen before!

Reptile - Not much is known about this fighter except he wears the same exact ninja uniforms as Scorpion and Sub Zero but only green and can mimic other fighters maneuvers! Though it is thought that he is the last of an ancient reptilian humanoid specie, he protects Shang Tsung from enemies.

Kung Lao - The last decedent of the heroic fighter Kung Lao is a former Shaolin monk and is also a member of White Lotus Society. He enters the tournament.

Jax - U.S. Special Forces Major Jackson Briggs enters the tournament with his huge bionic arms!

Katana - Katana is an assassin and has a twin sister but unlike Mileena she has a different agenda than serving the ruler of Outworld.

Mileena - Like Katana, she is also an assassin but unlike her twin sister she will do what she can for Shao Kahn!

Baraka - A nomadic mutant, he joins Shao Khan in the Outworld.

Kintaro - After Goro was defeated Kintaro, Shao Khan replaced the prince with this monster to lead his legions!

Shao Khan - A large and muscular being the supreme ruler of the Outworld, the Astrial Plane of Shokan, and all of the surrounding regions. The fighters have gathered and the tournament has begun! Will Khan rule supreme over Earth or can the earthlings defeat their opponents and Shao Khan?

Game Play: The game play is very good. The basic movies are easy to perform but the fatalities are very hard to do but with the help of cheats it can be much easier.

Graphics: The graphics are wonderful. Most of the game is digitalized!

Difficulty: The game can be very easy or it can be very hard depending on what you set the difficulty level.

Music: The music is great! Just awesome catchy tunes through out the game! In My opinion its some of the best music ever in a video game!

Sound: The sound is great. The real voices sound clear and the punching and kicking does as well.

Overall: I have always loved Mortal Kombat. If you like excellent fighting games then I strongly recommend you play Mortal Kombat II today!

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Lo◘Ve

Lo◘Ve

This is by far the best fighting game of all time and is by far the best in the MK series. The first MK game was great and this one is even better with more fighters including new fighters and more special moves and more fatalities and more stage fatalities, plus it has some additional finishing moves with friendships and babalities.

The graphics and gameplay are even better then the first and there are also two new bosses to fight as well.

My favourtie fighters in this game are Jax and Baraka

Well iv'e pretty much said everything there is to say about this great game and all i can say now is long live Mortal Kombat.
Vutaur

Vutaur

Mortal Kombat 2 upped the bar from the previous MK game and set a standard for the other few 2D MK games that followed after it. The characters were increased. The previous characters from the first game were given a makeover. Most of them for the better. There is a new four armed sub boss added that being Kintaro and a new boss Shao Kahn. Who is hailed as one of the best MK bosses by many. Also in my opinion both Kintaro and Kahn are some of the hardest bosses in any MK game.

The characters are also given two fatalities in this game as opposed to one fatality in the first game. The fatalities are more gruesome than that of the first games fatalities. There are also a few more stage fatalities in this game. Just like Reptile in the last game. There are hidden characters in this game. Except this time there is three. Not much else to say about it. Except that it was a great game for it's time and still holds up today to a certain extent. It raised the bar even higher for violence and stamped it's place into gaming history.
Mr.Savik

Mr.Savik

"Mortal Kombat II," out just a year after the original, is one of the greatest video game sequels of all time. Returning some characters from the first (Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Rayden, Reptile, and Shang Tsung) and introducing new characters (Kitana, Mileena, Jade, Jax, Kung Lao, and Baraka) and new stage fatalities (and character fatalities), it's the greatest in kombative entertainment. Ed Boon and John Tobias are geniuses in my book. "Mortal Kombat 3" was just a few years down the road, but it's also easy to appreciate how far kombat has come since 1992. "Deadly Alliance," "Deception," "Shaolin Monks," and the upcoming "Armageddon" are masterpieces of bloody marvelous martial arts action. "Mortal Kombat" forever!
Vertokini

Vertokini

This game in my opinion is the best game in the mortal kombat video game series because it has everything you want in mortal kombat and is much better than the original game because it has more artistic and cooler characters than the original did and MUCH better fatalities and in overall is the best mortal kombat game you can buy at the minute.
spark

spark

This game improves on some of the problems of the original: the characters and fighting stages were kinda bland in those games, but here the original characters look more colourful (Liu Kang, Tsang Shung) and the new character look great (Baraka, Mileena). The backgrounds are now better and bizarre, unlike the bland ones in the original. A truly fun (though disturbing) game.
Agalen

Agalen

This game is so good! The fatalities are so gory, unlike the sequels to this game. A little more realistic than Trilogy for the fact that most of the fatalities have the person falling down. In Trilogy when the person who's killed stays standing which is weird and disturbing. Most of the sequels suffer from this. My favorite Kharacter in this game is Kintaro, he's so hard to beat, but when you do it's a relief. UNTIL, you get to Shao Khan who is a little harder, which says a lot. It's my favorite in the series(Besides Deception). This is the peak of the series, after this the games start to fall until the Playstation 2 games. 9/10
Jugore

Jugore

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).
Goltikree

Goltikree

The controversial but popular 'Mortal Kombat' was Midway's biggest seller in 1992, meaning a sequel was perfectly viable. The following year, 'Mortal Kombat II' was unleashed onto the public. It was every bit as good as it's predecessor, though naturally a few improvements were made. An opponent could now perform a choice of two fatalities as opposed to one, as well being able to perform new finishing moves such as Friendship ( in which the player performs a kindly gesture towards the opponent ) and Babality ( in which the defeated opponent is transformed back into a whimpering baby ). The gore of fatalities was not toned down either. If anything, it was pepped up.

From the first game, Sub Zero, Scorpion, Reptile ( now a playable character ), Rayden, Johnny Cage and Liu Kang all return to battle in the tournament. Shang Tsung faced execution by emperor Shao Kahn ( who is the protagonist in this game ) for his failure in the previous battle but somehow persuaded his master to give him a second chance. Now reincarnated in a younger body, Shang Tsung is brought in here as a playable character. Four new characters were introduced - Jax ( a special forces agent and friend of Sonya Blade who enters the combat to rescue her after Kahn captures her ) Kitana ( a female ninja and alleged daughter of Shao Kahn ), Mileena ( a hideous clone of Kitana ) and Baraka ( a hideous beast who belongs to a race known as Tarakatan ).

Sonya and Kano make uncredited appearances here as prisoners in Kahn's fighting arena. Appearing as unlockable characters are Jade ( a green pallete swap of Kitana ), Smoke ( a grey pallete swap of Scorpion who has smoke rings billowing from his body ) and Noob Saibot ( a shadow silhouette of the other ninjas ). In place of Goro is Kintaro, a four armed beast who is half human, half tiger.

Three stage fatalities were brought in here. In one zone, an opponent can be uppercutted into the air onto a row of spikes protuding from a ceiling, in another an opponent could be dissolved in a bath of acid. My favourite however would see an opponent knocked off of a bridge and thrown fatally onto a bed of concrete.

Daniel Pesina, who portrayed all the male ninja characters, was later fired from Midway along with Elizabeth Malecki ( who played Sonya in the first game ) and Katalin Zamilar ( who portrayed Kitana, Mileena and Jade ) over disagreements about royalty fees.

'Mortal Kombat II' was released on all Sega and Nintendo consoles and later was released ( in Japan only ) on the PS1. It is vintage fun that any true 'Mortal Kombat' will enjoy throughly with each play. Two years later, 'Mortal Kombat 3' appeared, and despite some unfavorable changes was nevertheless a successful release.
Hanelynai

Hanelynai

This is even better then the classic original, more characters, better special effects, and it still holds up extremely well today!, and the original is one of my favorite games of all time!, so this is no easy feat. Johnny Cage is still my favorite character, however Shao Kahn is incredibly hard to defeat(never have defeated him, hopefully will 1 day), the only time you have a shot is when he stands still and keeps saying you will die!, then you go for it. Kintaro is also very hard to defeat however i really do prefer Goro, and it also adds a few new really cool characters, like Millena, Kitana, Jax, Baraka, and Shang Tsung looks much cooler and more menacing then he did in the 1st!, plus The Pit has to be my favorite fight place!. It also adds a lot more violence and the fatality's are way cooler, plus, the music is once again great as are the backgrounds!. I played this over and over as a kid as well, and once again it brings back great memories!. This is even better then the classic original, more characters, even better special effects and it sill holds up extremely well today!, and if you loved the 1st like me, and haven't tried Mortal Kombat 2 what are you waiting for? Go try it immediately your bound to love it!. ***** out of 5
Zovaithug

Zovaithug

'Mortal Kombat 2' is one of my favorite video games. While the first MK game is very good, this sequel is far superior. I still play these games on my Sega Genesis, and it's good mental exercise (and therapy) for me; when there's a time that I feel like taking my frustrations out on someone, I just put this game on and beat my opponents senselessly (regardless of their gender). For this reason, anyone wishing to go up against me in a game like this should do so with caution. I may show you no mercy!
Uscavel

Uscavel

This is one of those rare occasions that the sequel is better. Part 2 is not more original, but it's an excellent next step when it comes to the story. There is real continuity. The quality is the same, if not better. The options (moves, fatalities, levels) are more.

The friendships and animalities are an addition, which gave me mixed feelings. They're fun, but fun is not what MK is about. of course fatalities are fun, but not in a comic way.

Anyway, the welcome combination of actors, fighting, gore, fatalities and being a next step in the story of MK makes this game excellent and fans hungry for more. Too bad that MK3 is a step back.
Anayaron

Anayaron

"Mortal Kombat 2" remains the best of the MK-series, and can be fun to play even after all these years. MK 2 adds better graphics faster gameplay and a whole host of enhancements and improvements over the original game. The amount of blood has been greatly increased and there are lots of new finishing moves for the old and new characters. The atmosphere of this classic game is what lifts it above its younger brothers.

10/10
Uttegirazu

Uttegirazu

The MK game that was released 1 year after the successful release of the first Mortal Kombat. MKII is the greatest gory fighting game of all time. The characters looked more realistic, the graphics were good, there was more blood and violence, and a new and improved decent fatality system. MKII in my opinion is the greatest 2d fighting game along with Street Fighter II. This game was even better than the first Mortal Kombat game.

MKII is still the best MK game and will always be.

I rest my case.

10/10
Hudora

Hudora

MORTAL KOMBAT II, in my opinion, is one of the best Sega Genesis games I have ever played. Even though I haven't owned my Nintendo Wii for very long, I enjoy it very much. In addition, even though I've never beaten the game, this game is really appealing. When and if this game is made available for download on the Nintendo Wii, I'm definitely going to download it. Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that the people at Sega Genesis know how to keep video game fanatics entertained. Now, in conclusion, if you're a video game fanatic, this is definitely one you'll want to play and own. I guarantee you you'll become hooked once you start.
Molace

Molace

I was in 2nd grade when this game came out. I'm 17 now, and it was and remains my favorite Mortal Kombat game. I've played this more than any other, it's simply the best, better than all the rest. Playing this game gives me a feeling of nostalgia, but besides that it's FUN, pure FUN, great game, best in the whole series. Just make sure you go online and look up the fatality codes for it so you can perform the awesome finishing moves, like Fatalities, Babalities, or even Friendships! This game is best played on the Sega 32X (if anyone even has that) if not, Genesis will do fine. If you're lucky enough to find it in an Arcade somewhere, I suggest you cherish the opportunity and play for hours, because I haven't seen an MKII arcade machine in years. Mortal Kombat II= Flawless Victory!