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   From: thegibbonsare@furious.com   
      
   BelPowerslave wrote:   
   >> Mortal Kombat II *was* a good fighting game and the article relayed   
   >> that opinion. The criticism was leveled against Mortal Kombat, which   
   >> itself was a rather horrid fighting game that was interesting only   
   >> because of the concept of the fatality.   
   >>   
   >> How many people could honestly say that they'd enjoy playing the first   
   >> Mortal Kombat game if there were no fatalities of any sort?   
   >   
   > I can. The original MK was solid title, it would have been a great game   
   > without the blood and fatalities...it's just that after MK2 it's only   
   > remembered for its blood and fatalities, not the gameplay that made it   
   > so innovative. Remember, MK's combo system was based off juggling,   
   > something even SF didn't have until years later in SSF2T. Not a lot   
   > people understood it, and thus couldn't really play it as well as, I'm   
   > sure, the developers would have hoped.   
   >   
   > Once you got used to it though, a simple deep jump kick followed by a   
   > Shadow Kick was easily pulled off, as was high punching someone out of   
   > the air to start a defensive juggle; it could get really crazy, just   
   > depended on the player.   
   >   
   > I think a lot of the people who didn't like MK1 simply didn't know how   
   > to play it. It's learning curve wasn't that much higher than SF2, it was   
   > just that it was a completely new style of playing.   
   >   
   > Bel   
      
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