Mortal Kombat 1

Gameplay is okay, not great. I am personally not a fan of the new Kameo system. But even worse is the way they are now trying to nickle and dime you to death. If I would have known there was going to be so much extra dlc that needed to be bought and not even available on the day of release I would have not purchased in the first place. This will be the last MK title I pre order and possibly the last game I buy from them all together if the next game does the same stuff. very sad.

Guest character favored game. Little to no variety when playing online and it's literally a waste of money and time with how bad this game is. It's a joke tbh

Well, I liked it. Yeah, I bought it late in its lifecycle and on a big discount, but it’s surprisingly good. There are a lot of bad reviews out there, but I’m glad I gave it a shot. The gameplay is genuinely fun, and I was pleasantly surprised by the story. I really appreciate the way they brought back the 3D era in some form. I’m not a fan of how those games played, but the stories in Deception and Armageddon had a special charm for me. I’m happy to see them acknowledged and remembered here.

Between Compiling shaders every nvidia update, the stupid trend to make the menu and seasonal content in the cloud, using god knows what resolution for textures and shadows. if you have just the recommended rig, you ll be spending more than half your playing time staring @ a black loading screen. even after you loose a match and hit retry.. there is your long loading. 140 GB for a fighting game, all open worlds so far, take less. Even your internet, need to be fiber or something similar, it keep uploading telemetry and snitching stuff. you download the menu every time! fuck off game. Alt-F4 for u. Oh i forgot. Grindyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. sweat for a backplate for your name, and if ur lucky get a BLUE-ish variation of an already blue palette of a skin. God! there is a zillion blue variations (u guessed it, they all look....blue) of skins in this game. i puke blue now.

[h3]How the hell can you make a game that has the best gameplay in the series, the best graphics, the best presentation and art direction, but still completely mess up the most basic stuff?[/h3] The offline content is bafflingly stupid. Like, I wouldn’t have that much of a problem with Towers of Time and Invasions if I could simply play them normally. What do I mean by that? Well, each match in these game modes has a “level” and “attributes,” so the CPU might have more health than you, or you might deal more damage of a certain element—concepts that have no place in a fighting game. If you have even half a brain, these matches end in a single combo, since they don’t have intros and are only one round long. That’s not fun. You spend 20 seconds clicking “OK → NEXT → NEXT” (the rewards for these matches are so dull and boring that they’re not even worth paying attention to), and then you go to the next match, spend 15 seconds “fighting,” rinse and repeat. So for every, let’s say, minute you spend playing this offline “content,” at least 50% of that time is spent loading and clicking through menus. Why? Why the hell did they design it this way? The gameplay is fun, but the game actively stops you from playing it. Also, why would you spend so much money hiring famous actors (Yuri Lowenthal, Van Damme, Megan Fox, J.K. Simmons, John Cena, etc.) to voice characters, [i]only for the game to skip the intros in pretty much every single mode besides the Classic Towers and VS mode?[/i] And I’m not even getting into the seasonal content, battle passes, weekly and daily missions, the way they dropped support in just two years, and how ridiculously dumb the story is. Half of these issues could be solved by simply adding an option to toggle intros ON/OFF and set how many rounds you want to play in Towers and Invasions—but NetherRealm couldn’t even do that. MK1 is a great game, riddled with horrendous, excruciatingly dumb decisions that ruined its longevity from day one. I’ve been an MK fan since MK9, but MK1 made me drop the franchise and switch to Street Fighter instead.

200 hours in and i'm ready to review! I really love this game. My previous experience of fighting games were Street Fighter and Injustice and both aesthetically and gameplay-wise, this game is by far my favourite. Looks great and plays great! It was a great jumping-on point for Mortal Kombat for me (the only other MK thing i'd seen is the '95 movie, which rocked). This game made me go back and check out MK11 and honestly, I didn't love it as much as MK1, I prefer the lighter look of Liu Kang's new era, I like the characters' looks a lot more and MK1 feels like it plays far better imo. MK11 definitely had better customisation but i dont really care about that so much so it wasn't a big problem for me with MK1. All in all, I've had a great time with it, it's fun!

Game is buggy and slow. The definitive edition upgrade being more expensive than the base game is some absolute BS. WB is definitely becoming one of those publishers that makes me hesitant to touch a game from here on out.

Where is the brutal mortal kombat that i grew up with ,damn this feels censored...

This game is a MASSIVE improvement to MK11 with better graphics and more fluid combos. Don't like the customization as much but its still good. Very good 9/10 would buy again

Fun and the story is really intresting. If you like fighting games you should try this one!

Please don't waste your money on this game there are way better fighting games out there. I bought this game on sale and it still feels like I've been scammed. This game's servers don't even work anymore so you can't even play online if you wanted to.

If you're playing this for a mortal kombat story then you probably won't be too satisfied, the story changes over 30 years of lore and story building for some unnecessary and definitely unwanted changes. The gameplay is solid. Lots of hit and miss things with this game, probably more cons than pros. If you want a good fighting game then it's a pick for sure but there is also better options tbh. Ps I won't ever forgive them for butchering Hanzo Hasashi and Kuai's stories.

Great game i really enjoyed the story of this one i was kind of aprehensive at first because it totally changes the Mk storyline but as i went with it i found it entertaining and sometimes comical how the warriors storys have changed. The fighting system is awesome it play similar to MK 11 not much has changed except now you got a tag team partner and so does your opponent I dont usually play Mortal kombat for Multiplayer i play the story mode and Singleplayer modes the games got plenty of Single player content which is something i like in a fighting game the games got most of the characters i like in it Except for Kano sadly hes in the game but you cant play as him hes a teamup. Other then that thank you for the sale on the game i usually prefer to buy fighting games when they go on sale and this was a great deal.

Was not Expecting a Story Like this in a Fighting game.Really Good game.Its Very Good.

Story finished in 3/4 hours. There is different modes like arcade and invasions. but gets repetitive after a while, maybe the game is more fun to play online / with friends against each other (to enable crossplay u have to make a WB account, im on steam). invasions was fun for a while until i got to a fight where there is an annoying squirrel on the ground with a chainsaw who keeps killing me. tried about 50 times and eventually gave up on the fight.

best game they had released and the quality is so good on 60 fps on pc

Yes its fun but there is a bad case of greed lots of stuff has a paywall the gameplay its self however is great just wait for the definitive edition to go on sale then buy this game.

Very good reboot to the series with an amazing story. Kombat is improved and as smooth and fun as ever!

Great fighting game if you like mortal kombat franchise , some people do not like some changes but i think it is pretty awesome. Graphics are realy nice Gameplay is very fun Mostly Cool characters Fun story mode The single player mode thought completely sucks.... it is a boring board game and is awful just to think about playing it , So if you play this game its to play multiplayer online otherwise , stay away from this game Overall , I think its a really good game

Not a MK veteran or anything I have not played MK 11 or X I have tried both at my friends so this is the first MK I have given some time and I must say although the community hates this game but I love it. The kameo system and the whole roster with omni man and homelander is a chefs kiss for me.

I've been a fan of Mortal Kombat since it's inception. I have not missed a single iteration of the game. It is the pinnacle of fighting games. That being said, fuck this Kameo shit. If I want to play a fighting game that has a tag in system, I'll play Tekken Tag. MK does not need this kind of asshattery.

Maybe I'm biased, as I got the definitive edition on sale for 30 dollars, but the story presentation alone was worth this price to me. The game feels and plays better to me than MK11. Coupled with the much needed story revival, this is an easy recommendation for me as someone who has played every game in the series. Will update review if/when I encounter any negatives.

liked it, it deserves no hate to be more clear that much hate, its story gets unnecessary quantity of hate and i think its flow is in the right track and has been processed very well. the only thing bothering me is to fight the same adversaries to get them knocked down but its a bit strain to fight against the same enemy while storys in the flow. yet still great to have a such great experience and i can loosely recommend it in the sale ofc its worth the expense just be aware of that this is a fighting game do not await any similarity to the other story based games.

As a long time fan of MK since childhood this game is NOT Bad. but it has its pros and cons. the pros are this game gives you the premium currency for free via challenges. the weekly challenge in the towers of time gives dragon krystals which you otherwise pay for. the story isnt bad but if you’ve played mk9 and mkx stories it isnt as good as that but they hold up to today’s standards as a good story. the only con i have is sonya blade, jax briggs, and kano, etc are all kamos, so they arent technically playable characters in the base game which is a little sad because they are huge characters in the MK Story. other than that the game is amazing, love playing it by myself and online against friends. highly recommend ESPECIALLY on sale or buying a key from an external source of your liking.

great game but i say get a good controller then the fun starts

Web is filled with negative feedbacks, but believe most of them are not players. This version of MK is really difficult and different then previous ones. Loved the game play!!

very fun game if u are playing i think story mode is the best because it looks so real

Good fun game, always enjoyed all the Mortal Kombat games, but I always buy them on sale as once im done i dont really ever go back to them

Biggest mistake was turning this game's monetization to be as bad as a sports game. Stop milking MK. This game lasted for less time than the last 3 games which is so sad Such a shame because the story is very nice, gameplay smooth, cameos are stupid

just a steal deal during the sale man this baby is not at all boring with arnold and t 100 this made the epic battle ever to play with ur friends and even boss when u are pissed off the work per incentive ratio the brutality is bang on point amazing graphics and amazing story

very fun. the story is great and the phenoiminal characters.

So Much to explore, so much to unlock, nice game

Incredible game. too bad they already released the definitive edition,

The online multi-player is has a lot of stuttering and drops frame rates. Even if that functioned well, the quality of life features for multiplayer are non-existent. The game almost feels like it's designed to have you spend more time in menus than actually fighting. You have to run the benchmark every time you play online. The worst was the king of the hill mode if you wanted to play with multiple friends. Want to change a setting? Leave the lobby, go back to main menu, run the benchmark again, then ask the host to exit their existing game and and create a new one to invite you in, because once they start the king of the hill mode, there's no way to add new people into the lobby. I highly encourage you to only buy this game if it's heavily on sale. I can't refund the game, but genuinely wish I could. Instead I'll make it my mission to make sure that it sells as few copies as possible. I spent more time troubleshooting this game than actually playing it. You're going to spend 20-30min compiling shaders for this game when you launch it. If you spend more than $10 on this game you're overpaying.

I think this game is pretty game, love the story, and the character slot. the maps, graphics, and fatalities are great. my problems are that their is less KONTENT, than the other games.

If you're a fighting game fan, or even just someone who grew up yelling “Finish Him!” at arcade machines, Mortal Kombat 1 is absolutely worth your time. It’s a glorious, gory celebration of everything that makes this franchise legendary. Rating: 9/10 – Flawless Victory (almost)

Good game but poor optimization still mortal kombat X is the goat and I'll play Mortal kombat 11 until they release the next part. The gameplay mechanics are worse then previous one I guess they are focusing more on graphics and making the game feel downgrade in terms of real gameplay for what the game is meant to be.

All the cutscenes are pre-rendered so if you have any mods, it will be jarring. Game overall is okay, controls are very simple for a MK game which is a plus for some and a negative for some, I liked it. However, it just becomes so repetitive fast. Can't recommend this unless it is under 30.00 then I would say it is a decent enough time. The story is really boring as well, very predictable and you can tell they wrote it pretty quick.

This game is very good the graphics and visuals look great and each character feels unique and i do like the addition of Kameo fighters to help you out in battle.Peak game go play go play go play go play go play go play GO PLAY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boring And Lame Compared to All The Others That Came BEFoRE BUT Worth playin i guess

Do not buy the game its an actual scam buy mk11 or something spare urself the pain

They should fix the issues ... for now it's downvote .. The game has bugs: 1. the keyboard blocks and you can never get a chance to hit back again (i don't mean the rules of the game) 2. custom keys mapping is reverted for 1s or 2s at the beginning of the round 3. the game has no purpose if you perform "COMBOS" 4. bad game design also allows repeated moves forever just to "win" 5. no run function, no throw with objects or weapons 6. 3060 Ti 8GB should be enough even for "ultra" but with steam in the backgroud you get lag sometimes lag so you have to put steam on low in task manager 7. the players are few in number 1200 at most, you won't find someone to play with .. and even if you do .. they play as if their life is in that game :) .. 8. if you only have PC keyboard combos are quite hard to do: my advise don't waste your money ... 9. I think MK 1 is done .. there are some bad decisions as to how and what and when the player can do starting with combos that are about nothing else then the opponent being able to ... play .. alone .. :) why .. The game is not enjoiable but makes you feel the opposite of what a game has to be. .. You can win a game by only performing combos .. ..why, what's the point ? I can do that without an opponent .. BAD DESIGN and BAD GAME PLAY

Base game is nice, but charging that much for a DLC? The plot added is worth for half of the movie, but going for a movie cost 5 times cheaper.

Let me start by saying this review is not about online multiplayer. I don’t play it, I don’t care about ranked ladders, and I have zero interest in hackers, netcode, or any of that. What you’ll find here is a review focused solely on the core experience of Mortal Kombat 1 from the perspective of a long-time fan—someone who grew up with the franchise and still gets hyped for a good story, memorable characters, and throwing hands in style. And damn, does this game deliver. [h2]Story & Presentation[/h2] The story mode is a fantastic reboot—a much-needed timeline reset that gives fresh outcomes to familiar characters. Whether you're a veteran or a newcomer, there's a real sense of purpose and direction here, and it all comes wrapped in top-tier visuals, cinematic-quality animations, and epic sound work that makes every moment hit harder. The new narrative approach reimagines the klassics in a way that feels respectful and exciting, with enough twists to keep you locked in from start to finish. I played the entire main story (non-DLC) on Very Hard difficulty in about 10 hours, and I was hooked the whole way through. No crashes, no lost save files, no bugs—just raw MK goodness. [h2]Gameplay & Mechanics[/h2] MK1 plays like a love letter to the franchise while still pushing things forward. The mechanics are smooth and impactful, with a greater emphasis on kombos and flow than raw special move spam—though both are still very much present. Combat feels balanced and satisfying, and the Kameo system adds an extra layer of strategy without overwhelming the player. It’s accessible enough for newcomers but deep enough for veterans who want to master every move and maximize every fight. Even on harder difficulties, the AI is challenging but fair—encouraging you to actually learn your character instead of just button-mashing. [h2]Visuals & Art Direction[/h2] Visually, this game is stunning. The environments are dripping with atmosphere—especially Outworld, which looks better than it ever has. Character designs strike a perfect balance between classic and modern, with fantastic reinterpretations that still feel true to their roots. The animations are easily among the best I’ve seen in 30 years of gaming. Every punch, kick, and fatality has real weight behind it, and it all contributes to making the MK universe feel more alive—and more brutal—than ever. [h2]A Few Gripes (But Nothing Fatal)[/h2] Is it perfect? No game is. Some iconic characters are locked behind DLC or only appear as Kameo fighters, and I get why that might turn some fans off. The focus on combos over special moves may also not be everyone’s cup of tea. And yes, splitting the story into two parts (with the second behind a paywall) is controversial. But personally? None of that ruined the experience for me. I don’t care about unlocking every character. I don’t care about online rankings. I care about a solid Mortal Kombat experience—and in that regard, MK1 absolutely delivers. Also worth noting: despite widespread performance complaints, I encountered zero issues on my rig (RTX 4070 Ti Super, Ryzen 5 3600X, 32GB RAM). Everything ran buttery smooth from start to finish, even under ultra high settings, 1440p and no DLSS. [h2]Final Thoughts[/h2] If you’re a long-time fan from the golden arcade era—or even someone curious about what modern MK has to offer—this is easily one of the best (if not THE best) entries in the franchise. Just get the definitive edition if you’re bothered by DLC content, and you’ll have a complete, satisfying experience from start to finish. Mortal Kombat 1 is a bloody good time, full of stylish combat, memorable moments, and unapologetic fun. It’s everything you remember loving about MK, dialed up to 11, and wrapped in the best visuals the series has ever seen. Highly recommended. 100%.

Mortal Kombat 1 is a bold reboot of the iconic fighting franchise, bringing a fresh timeline crafted by Fire God Liu Kang. The visuals are stunning, with detailed character models and brutal, cinematic Fatalities. The combat is tight and fluid, with the new Kameo fighter system adding strategic depth. The story mode is engaging and packed with fan service, though the online experience can sometimes suffer from balance issues. Overall, it’s a strong entry that respects its roots while pushing the series forward.

The game is great but kinda dead, sadly the definitive edition also came out so no more updates

W game but when i loaded it i pressed the thing at the start it loaded for like an hour and then finally worked just for it to be buggy and laggy and not much gore two idk why it's like that but it just is and when i press the other it crashes my game Should you buy it? No not really even if it's on sale.

Classic MK gameplay, nice continuation to the story. Reccomend.

fr top graphics and w game w story

Its not a bad game people just want to hate on it. The story is mid could be better. The PvP feels 100% smoother, better balanced and unlike MK11, MKX and MK9 where the top tier characters had a better chance of winning it has been diminished in MK1. Mortal Kombat has slowly started to get better at balancing.