Mortal Kombat II

Mortal Kombat II is a fighting video game originally released in 1993 for the arcades and later ported to various systems. It is the second installment in the Mortal Kombat series.

Plot
After Shang Tsung failed to defeat Liu Kang in the Mortal Kombat tournament, he begs his master Shao Kahn to spare his life. He tells Shao Kahn that if they hold it in Outworld, the invitation for the next Mortal Kombat cannot be turned down, and the Earthrealm warriors must attend. Kahn agrees to this plan and also restores Shang Tsung's youth. He then extends the invitation to the thunder god and Earthrealm's protector, Raiden, who gathers his warriors and takes them into Outworld.

The new tournament is much more dangerous, as Shao Kahn has the home field advantage, and an Outworld victory will allow him to subdue Earthrealm.

According to canon, Liu Kang won this tournament as well, defeating Shao Kahn and his bodyguard Kintaro.

Why it Rocks

 * 1) Decent soundtrack.
 * 2) More characters and fatalities.
 * 3) Despite also doing fatalities, you can do like the famous "Friendship".
 * 4) Improved gameplay and visuals.
 * 5) Besides the original ending, the game's story mode can be finished using other playable characters, resulting in different endings for each of them.
 * 6) Takes what was good about the first game and adds much more.
 * 7) High difficulty.
 * 8) The arcade version contains a hidden game of Pong.
 * 9) Nintendo learned their lesson about censoring games from the mess up that was the SNES port of the first game and allowed blood in their SNES port of MKII.
 * 10) The Game Boy version is surprisingly pretty good, along with the Game Gear version.
 * 11) This is one of the few times that the Sega 32X port was good and actually makes this one of the bad console’s good games.

Bad Quality

 * 1) The AI is extremely unfair, as the computer opponent will professionally block or dodge your move within frames of it starting, and always finds ways to counter. The difficulty setting only changes whether or not the AI decides to do this, meaning the AI loves to cheat no matter the difficulty. The Sub-Boss, Kintaro and Boss, Shao Kahn are the worst offenders.

Reception
The game was a commercial success and was acclaimed by many critics, receiving many annual awards and having been featured in various top lists in the years and decades to come, but also perpetuating a major video game controversy due to the series' continuous depiction of graphic violence.

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