Mortal Kombat 11

Mortal Kombat 11 is a fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

It was released on April 23, 2019, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. A re-release subtitled Aftermath Kollection was released for the same platforms in May 26th, 2020, followed by another version called Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate for those platforms, as well as the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S releasing on November 17, 2020.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The series is even gorier than ever as the Fatalities in this game are much more gruesome and show a lot more details when a character is mutilated in some shape or form.
 * 2) The gameplay is overall brutal, fun, and addictive.
 * 3) The three newcomers, Cetrion, a corrupt Elder God, Geras, a servant of Kronika, and Kollector, an Outworld merchant who is loyal to Shao Kahn, are all very interesting and a lot of fun to play as.
 * 4) *The main villain herself, Kronika, is also an interesting character, and her motivations are pretty decent.
 * 5) Like the last two entries, this one has guest characters, except it has five of them: those being the Terminator (the T-800 version), The Joker from Batman, Spawn, who was one of the most requested guest characters in a Mortal Kombat game, Robocop, and Rambo.
 * 6) *While the inclusion of The Joker could raise eyebrows, it may have been due to NetherRealm Studios wanting to capitalize off of the success and acclaim of the Persona JRPG series, given that The Joker shares his name with one of the protagonists of the aforementioned series who has made numerous appearances in other games.
 * 7) This game features returning characters who were absent from X, such as Baraka, Noob Saibot, Jade and Skarlet.
 * 8) Visually impressive and beautiful graphics and visuals, especially for the 2019 standards. They are so impressive that you would even want to look at them for so long by just playing the game for a long hours, or even watching videos and stopping them on YouTube just to look at them, especially in the Nintendo Switch version.
 * 9) * It's also surprising considering how it ran on the outdated Unreal Engine 3.
 * 10) This is the first game in the series to feature character customization, where you can alter the head, body, and even the weapon of a character to your liking (Including DLC characters).
 * 11) The Aftermath expansion comes with a second part for the story mode, and classic characters as Fujin and Sheeva, and the aforementioned guest Robocop. It also comes with a free update with three new stages, the return of stage fatalities and also the Friendships, a feature that was only in Mortal Kombat 2 and Mortal Kombat 3.
 * 12) The characters have pre-fight dialogue before the fight starts once again, except this time, each character has a specific dialogue for one another.
 * 13) Top-notch voice acting, such as Richard Epcar as Raiden, Erica Lindbeck as Cassie Cage, and Steve Blum as Sub-Zero. And to add to that, Hollywood celebrities like Keith David, Peter Weller, and Sylvester Stallone reprise their roles as Spawn, Robocop, and Rambo what they put a lot of effort into expressing their characters and it feels like they want to do it at all, respectively.
 * 14) *And as part of the Klassic MK Movie Skin Pack, actors Linden Ashby, Bridgette Wilson, and Christopher Lambert reprise their roles from the 1995 movie adaptation as Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, and Raiden, respectively.
 * 15) Very memorable and intense soundtrack composed by Wilbert Roget, II, especially the main theme of the game. It would make you want to try to get it to your head or go to the stages longer to listen to the music, or even go to YouTube and download the music on your computer, phone or tablet.
 * 16) A lot of very cool easter eggs are present in this game, like when the Terminator makes references to other movies with Arnold Schwarzenegger like Total Recall, Predator, and Jingle All The Way during his pre-fight intros to certain characters.
 * 17) This game introduces a new mechanic called "Environmental Attacks", where a character can grab a piece of a stage and use it to attack his/or opponent.
 * 18) Watching Fatalities is very entertaining, because they all go in slow-motion at the end.
 * 19) *A perfect example is that of Johnny Cage, in the first Fatality, you can see Johnny Cage tearing off the body in 2, and suddenly Johnny Cage with the body without legs, makes a quite amusing show spoken as if they were a puppet and then the audience throws tomatoes at him, the second fatality is where Johnny Cage does acting but realistic, where Johnny Cage tries to rip his head off and after many takes, he eventually rips off his head and throws it at the camera.
 * 20) *Jax's, in second fatality, we can see Jax ripping off his arm and then pulling his head out with his arm ripped off and doing like a baseball and his head pops out and the skull is visible.
 * 21) *Kano's, in the first fatality, we can see Kano drinking a beer and after finishing it, he breaks the wrestler's head, and Kano puts his neck on it and Kano does a dance with a wrestler with the broken bottle that is placed on it neck.
 * 22) Brutalities from MKX are back, with some of them recreating classic fatalities like Johnny Cage's deadly uppercut (this being an universal brutality for every character), Sonya Blade's kiss of death and even Kabal's scream.
 * 23) The Nintendo Switch version is surprisingly good (except memory and loading screens).
 * 24) *While the graphics can degrade for some people and players, the graphics are still impressive and beautiful despite the few pixels, which shows the effort to be a port for Nintendo Switch and wow if they did it very well.
 * 25) ** In addition, it is really enjoyable and entertaining played in 1080p and 720p in TV or handheld mode.
 * 26) * Like Rayman Legends and Resident Evil: Revelations 2 on Switch, while the frame rate is a choppy, it runs almost solid, especially if you're playing it in Docked mode, as starts running at 30 and 60fps but it's awesome, so you notice that it is insanely well-optimized.
 * 27) Solid story that while not perfect, it's very thrilling to watch. Plus, during some scenes, you get to choose whoever fights a certain opponent depending on the scene.
 * 28) *In Aftermath's Story before the final fight you can choice if Shang Tsung faces Fire God Liu Kang or viceversa, the winner decides the fate of the history.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) mh:crappygames:Microtransactions are present in this game, and they can be used to skip through certain parts of the Krypt, which is otherwise pay to win. Not to mention that the Krypt can be rather grindy without them.
 * 2) *The game already has DLC, which is greedy.
 * 3) Speaking of the Krypt, you need to be connected to the internet (Also requiring an Xbox Live account on Xbox One/Series X, A PlayStation Network account on PS4/PS5 and a Nintendo ID account on Switch) in order to access it.
 * 4) *A few other features such as unlockable items and skins also require internet, also applies to leveling up and gathering Koins.
 * 5) The game has spawned a few controversies pertaining to politics, leading many to believe that the game is pandering to the far-left.
 * 6) *For example, the female characters have their sexiness heavily toned down, because the developers went in a new art direction, deeming that skimpy clothing for women is too "unrealistic". While this does a good job of putting less focus on sex appeal (while still having it) and more focus on the gameplay, this decision feels disgraceful and hypocritical, because they think brutally murdering a woman is fine, but giving her a sexy outfit isn't, and B) some of the male characters were allowed to wear skimpy clothing, so why not the women?
 * 7) *Jax is also completely out of character in this game (especially his ending), where he manipulates time to right history's wrongs. It shows imagery of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, leading many to believe he was trying to create a better future for African-Americans like himself. Even though it is a nice sentiment, Jax hasn't really been focused on race. It also makes him unintentionally unsympathetic as he could have erased a lot of people judging from his daughter's ending when she erased herself from history for her parents. (See point 8 for more details).
 * 8) *Shao Kahn's "Let us make Outworld great again!" line is most definitely a reference to Donald Trump, which is out of place in a game like this.
 * 9) Cyrax and Sektor appear but as NPCs in Story Mode, with recycled movements from MKX and MK2011.
 * 10) While the Nintendo Switch version is still surprisingly good, it does have a few flaws:
 * 11) * A perfect example is the memory of the game, since it has a sickening memory of more than 100% (32.4 GB), which is absolutely terrible and unacceptable for a Nintendo Switch port, and to put salt in the wound, and the box says that it takes 20GB, which is false advertising, and worse still, due to the memory of the Switch that has 32GB, you might recommend an SDcard, and it is one of the few from Switch games that has an incredibly full memory, which this feels very tacky to some people and gamers who bought this version without looking at the memory and at worst, a waste of money. Fortunately, thanks to the OLED version at 64GB of space, it makes it a bit worth it.
 * 12) The Fatal Blows are a poor replacement for x-ray special moves, and are unfair because they can be used when the player's health is critically low, which is basically rewarding them for losing.
 * 13) While fun, the gameplay is a lot slower than the previous installments were. Plus, dashing was removed for unknown reasons.
 * 14) Some of the characters are flanderized, or are out of character in the story. For example;
 * 15) *Shao Kahn went from a cunning and intelligent villain to a dumb brute who utters cringe-worthy lines like "Let us make Outworld great again!", and Sindel's backstory was completely retconned as it was apparently revealed that she was evil all along and she actually killed her own husband and willingly married Shao Kahn, despite past games showing very clear evidence that she was a very kind and caring person who was under the spell of Quan Chi.
 * 16) *Kotal Kahn despite being a Kahn, he has been turned into a complete jobber.
 * 17) *Scorpion (Hanzo) in MKX shown that he regretted killing Sub-Zero's brother and wished he can undo it but when he meets Noob (Sub-Zero's brother) he never expressed any sympathy for putting him in that fate and was worse when Noob doesn't kill Hanzo, D'vorah killing Hanzo was one of the most heavily panned moments in MK11's story as many Mortal Kombat fans wished it was Noob who kills Hanzo and this scene gave D'vorah more of a bad reputation as a character.
 * 18) NRS has never tried to listen to the fans whenever there was a broken character for example;
 * 19) *Sheeva was the most hated player opponent before her massive "Stomp" nerf, many players (but not all Sheeva players) kept abusing this ability because it was a unblockable move that dealt 10% damage on each use. Many characters suffered from not having many anti-air moves nor great mobility and this cause the stomp attack to be almost impossible to beat. NRS ignored the mass amount of player feedback of them begging them to nerf Sheeva, NRS finally took action when a |female streamer was crying when a Sheeva player was spamming stomp at her.
 * 20) *Cetrion a "keep away" character with lot's of abusable hard-hitting & unavoidable projectiles & Jacqui Briggs a "rush down" character with lot's of tools that do a lot of damage, those characters are still broken that somehow never gotten any massive nerfs.
 * 21) This game had the infamous Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM included at launch. Even though it was removed in 2022, it still took 2 years to do so.