Mortal Kombat 4

Mortal Kombat 4 is a fighting game developed and published by Midway on October 15, 1997. This is the last Mortal Kombat game to be released on Arcade machines. An updated version of the game was later released on the Dreamcast as Mortal Kombat Gold on September 9, 1999.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The first game in the series as well as one of Midway's first games to have 3D graphics.
 * 2) Introduced Quan Chi, Tanya and Shinnok as playable characters.
 * 3) Creative game over screen where a character falls to their death in a pit of spikes.
 * 4) Noob Saibot, Goro and Meat are secret selectable characters on the PC and console ports.
 * 5) Mortal Kombat Gold brings back several characters from previous games like Kitana, Mileena, Kung Lao, Baraka, Cyrax and Sektor.
 * 6) Great Graphics for 1997 standards, as well as for the first 3D Mortal Kombat game.
 * 7) Awesome soundtrack.
 * 8) "Toasty 3D!"

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The Game Boy Color port is terrible.
 * 2) Shinnok is considered a crappy antagonist and final boss unlike his later appearance in MKX.
 * 3) The game dumps lots of characters that were previously in MKT, although some were later included in MKG.