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  • Summary: Mortal Kombat is back and better than ever in the next evolution of the iconic franchise. The all new Custom Character Variations give you unprecedented control to customize the fighters and make them your own. The new graphics engine showcasing every skull-shattering, eye-popping moment,Mortal Kombat is back and better than ever in the next evolution of the iconic franchise. The all new Custom Character Variations give you unprecedented control to customize the fighters and make them your own. The new graphics engine showcasing every skull-shattering, eye-popping moment, brings you so close to the fight you can feel it. And featuring a roster of new and returning Klassic Fighters, Mortal Kombat's best in class cinematic story mode continues the epic saga over 25 years in the making. Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 26
  2. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Apr 23, 2019
    100
    A stellar fighting game and is one of the best ones ever made in my opinion. The depth and variety it offers are unparalleled, even by the likes of Injustice 2, another NetherRealm creation. There are so many characters to customize and master — with many more on the horizon — which should keep you enthralled for months to come.
  2. Apr 29, 2019
    92
    NetherRealm has made Mortal Kombat 11 a must for lovers of the fighting genre. Its incredible gameplay, its great graphic finish and its cinematographic history make it a serious candidate for one of the best games of the genre of this generation.
  3. Apr 22, 2019
    90
    It’s a rare fighting game that hits just about every note as strongly as Mortal Kombat 11 does. Everything from its methodical and deep combat to its fantastically absurd story mode and its rock-solid netcode, right down to its extraordinarily comprehensive tutorial is absolutely exceptional.
  4. May 1, 2019
    90
    Streamlined mechanics keep the act of fighting furiously exciting no matter what your skill level, and comprehensive tutorials encourage you to dig into the nitty-gritty. There's a diverse roster of interesting characters and playstyles, and the story mode is an entertaining romp. The randomization of Krypt rewards and the odd issue with the game's always-online nature can occasionally chip away at your patience, but Mortal Kombat 11 absolutely hits where it matters.
  5. Apr 29, 2019
    83
    Mortal Kombat 11 delivers on what you would expect from the acclaimed long running series of iconic blood-soaked fisticuffs. The end result, despite a painful grind, offers a solid experience that looks great, feels amazing, and succeeds in keeping the franchise alive and revitalized, yet again. If you’re looking for one of the gen’s next best fighters, get over here!
  6. Apr 30, 2019
    80
    Yet this is comfortably the best Mortal Kombat in a long time. Played competitively against another person, it’s great, and the single-player experience is the most accomplished of any recent fighter.
  7. May 3, 2019
    70
    Mortal Kombat 11 has some design issues, but overall I enjoyed my time and I can sincerely say I'm looking forward to the inevitable sequel.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 123
  2. Negative: 73 out of 123
  1. Apr 23, 2019
    10
    From a combat system that's as polished and exciting as it gets to various game modes that offer something for every kind of player, this willFrom a combat system that's as polished and exciting as it gets to various game modes that offer something for every kind of player, this will be a game that others will mimic and learn from for years to come. Expand
  2. Nov 11, 2021
    10
    Awesome game it's amazing how interesting this is it's incredible and cool bro
  3. Apr 28, 2019
    9
    An honest review:
    Mortal Kombat 11 is a great successor to the series previous successors with a large cast of fan favorite characters and
    An honest review:
    Mortal Kombat 11 is a great successor to the series previous successors with a large cast of fan favorite characters and engaging game play. My review will be mainly based on the game itself, although all recent criticism the game has been receiving will be elaborated after I've given a fair review. To quickly detail the experience as someone who has spent a considerable amount of time playing the game already I can say that it's terrific in many ways, the game play is some of the best yet, the visuals and animations are incredibly realistic and the story telling is as good as you can expect from a MK game. The characters are great, with old and new fighters making an appearance, they all have good characterization, memorable designs and faces and a large variety of ways to play each character/ display the character how you want to. Admittedly the game is at it's worst when playing through the challenge tower as some fights can be painfully hard or just not fun to deal with and when these fights occur you usually have two options, allow the AI to fight for you or use a rare 'konsumable' instead. Overall the game is a great experience and probably one of the best fighting games to date, with a large amount of content and different ways to play/learn different characters it's genuinely a great experience. If you're on the fence about it, definitely give it a go because it's worth your time playing as both a fighting game fan or simply a casual gamer.

    Talk about the games criticism:
    The main criticisms of the game are the women, and the supposed 'SJW' influences. Personally I believe this does little to detract from the game play or the narrative of the game, truthfully it only means something if you let it mean something to you. The main argument people are using when talking about the female fighters is that they no longer dress or look similarly to how they did in previous installments, MK11 has women in armors and generally covered clothes which to many seems like a serious step down from the bikini babes that would fight in previous entries. Personally I don't understand the importance of the bikini fighters since it never meant anything to the narrative, maybe even the game apart from eye candy and sex appeal; as for the some of the changes to women in race of looks, it's simply to build upon characters, Kitana seems more realistic and visually memorable as a person instead of a fan wielder and even revamped people like Skarlet never really had any backstory until MK11, this meant that she could be created in many different ways, the nationality and character seems fitting of herself anyways.
    The talk about SJW game play is ridiculous at literally no point does the game do anything to alienate its audience unless you think Jax's ending is some sort of propaganda which it truly is not, Jax's ending isn't a problem for the most part, like I said before, there's truly no problem with it unless you're strictly looking for Jax's ending to be problematic. Another thing to note is a Shao Khan intro where he says "let's make outworld great again", clearly it's referencing the famous Donald Trump line yet I can't understand why people would find this so offensive in a game about brutalizing your opponent; I agree that politics has no place in any game, especially Mortal Kombat yet it still seems wrong to ridicule the game simply because there's a character intro with very little context or even basis to make a claim about. Also people are talking about the Micro-transaction action they implemented, listen unless you literally need everything the game has to offer you won't care. You can commonly find new items/visuals for your favorite characters and you don't need to pay or work tirelessly to get them, there's dedicated towers which gives users specific items for a character of their choice and it's barely even a chore to unlock them.
    Finally, after reading all of these reviews I'm seeing a large amount of people complain about Mileena not being in the game, I can understand their frustration, Mileena was my favourite MK10 character and sure, I wanted to see her in it too, but really? A large amount of these reviews claim that people won't even play the game because Mileena's not even in it which is just pettiness in it's saddest form.
    It's disappointing to see a great game such as this being boycotted for the worst reasons imaginable by the people who claim to be fans of the series but wont even try the game because of something they saw/read online.
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  4. Apr 29, 2019
    3
    This games combat is okay same mortal kombat feel just slower however half the game is unplayable due to it being locked behind towers of timeThis games combat is okay same mortal kombat feel just slower however half the game is unplayable due to it being locked behind towers of time as well the random krypt for customizing your character and i mean character to have a few would take years to do. Towers of time feels like test your luck in other MK games except there is content locked behind it. Story mode is not great, voice acting is garbage, and grind is ridiculously long. The only reason this dosen't get a 0 is the decent experience ive had online and the story mode if they don't fix something quick this game WILL DIE and im sad to say that. Expand
  5. Jun 23, 2020
    0
    One of the worst fighting games I have ever played. To start, the game has horrible fighting mechanics, scrub rewarding and noob friendlyOne of the worst fighting games I have ever played. To start, the game has horrible fighting mechanics, scrub rewarding and noob friendly garbage. Fatal blows literally reward people for losing and some characters have busted krushing blows. The game is far from balanced and seems to have the idea of a risk/reward system completely backwards. The roster sucks, like, who wanted Jacqui and Cassie in for another game instead of Takeda or Ernac or some other actual cool character. Literally no fun game modes, Towers of Time still isn’t fun, just a bunch of annoying modifiers that don’t make sense like darkness modifiers and chaos modifiers. Aftermath is a waste of $40, which is overpriced as hell. You’re getting 3 **** characters and a story mode that isn’t even half the size of the original story mode and they have the audacity to make it $40. Like I said, no fun game modes like tag team or test your might or anything. I could go on all day as to why this game sucks but I don’t have time. So just take this. Expand
  6. Apr 24, 2019
    0
    Utterly disgraceful mtx practices. Extremely grindy if you want to unlock even a fraction of unlockables.
  7. Apr 23, 2019
    0
    Another game ruined by sjw agenda and excessive mtx
    Complete garbage, don't even waste your time

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