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Mortal Kombat spears Xbox Live in the chest

by Ross Miller on Oct 21st 2006 12:37PM

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is now available on Xbox Live. The gore-fest made a brief appearance last night and promptly vanished with a puff of smoke, only to reappear sometime after midnight. We suspect the decision was made following its accidental release last night, though those among us with tinfoil hats purport that Microsoft is orchestrating the entire mishap to keep our minds off of more luminary XBLA headlines.

Costing 800 MS points, UMK3 is sporting current-week and all-time leaderboards, online two-on-two multiplayer, and four player "winner-stays-on" online tournaments. According to Major Nelson, many people are not seeing the game show up, to which he assures us that he is "escalating." Which likely means that he is telling his superiors, and not riding escalators up and down over and over again to his little heart's content.

[Thanks to every one who sent this in.]

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Tags: mortal kombat, MortalKombat, x b l a, XBLA, xbox live, Xbox-360, XboxLive

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YAY!!!

its broken, logs u out everytime u boot it up, no online working :(

How is this different from regular MK3, other than playing against people online?

I'm thinking that since it was an unfinished build last night, they disabled the ability to log onto Xbox Live while playing it.

Unfortunately, they have yet to fix or issue a patch, which is why we still can't log on, despite it being 'officially' released on XBL.

FSK405K -

I think this one added a few more characters. Could be wrong. I was always more of a Street Fighter fan, anyway.

Does this include Galaga? I played that thing for far more hours than I did actual MK3.

"""Which likely means that he is telling his superiors, and not riding escalators up and down over and over again to his little heart's content."""

That is the funniest thing I've read all year! lol hahhahahahaa. my god Ross Miller you are the King of Comedy! haha my god ahh i couldn't stop laughing.

Yep got it today and as above my xbox live is not working with it. Too bad some of these games lack the old dip switch emulation where you could tweak the game a bit, for extra lives, difficulty etc. Oh well it looks and runs great. I am a bit old though and I think a trip over to gamefaqs is in order. I'll be damned if I can remember a single move from this game.

HOW ARE THE CONTROLS?

360 D-Pad is your GOD.

Personally I'm more of an MK2 guy than 3. I think "Ultimate" was kinda like their version of "Super" and "Turbo" for Street Fighter. I can;'t remember, but maybe there were a couple more characters?

Playing vs. my friends online is a HUGE draw. Does it work well with the Street Fighter on XBL? Depending on how well it runs, I might just need to get a 360 when the price goes down.

I've been waiting for this one for awhile. I must say, it surpasses my expectations a bit. I haven't tried the Xbox Live aspect, but it sounds promising. It's definitely the good old Mortal Kombat. I didn't even bother with the trial.

agreed. it's a tactic to draw attention away from the lumines firestorm. i for one am not falling for it. i might order another xbla title in the future if they have the sense to repair the lumines debacle.

Hee hee. Smoke.

tony hawk's project 8 demo is up, too.

online works and is up, it does not kick you off.

Move list

http://fp.enter.net/~jkool/MKKODES/ULTMK/ULTMKMOVELIST.htm

Have any of you noticed how damn hard it is to pull off a fatality with the 360 controller.......Where is my dual shock 2 when i need it !!??

the D PAd on the xbox controller is terrible. It does control better than Street Fighter though.

The arcade version of UMK3 included the entire cast of MK3, plus Classic Sub-Zero, Ermac, Jade, Kitana, Mileena, Reptile and Scorpion. Furthermore, it allowed you to play as (or against) Human Smoke (via a code). I believe that you could also fight Noob Saibot, but I don't believe that he had his movelist from the Genesis/SNES versions of the game.

I agree with Sam. While the 360 dpad isn't great, this controls much better than Street Fighter. I downloaded the trial this time first (after stupidly purchasing the full SF2 before trying it). I had bad expectations but I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the crappy d-pad seems way better on UMK3. I think I'm gonna grab the full version.

"Have any of you noticed how damn hard it is to pull off a fatality with the 360 controller.......Where is my dual shock 2 when i need it !!??"

No, but I know you bash the 360 on every post so one would assume you have not even played it and are once again making stuff up. The only thing more pathetic than that is that you bash the worst d-pad available with the second worst d-pad available. Please get a life.

GJM - i have to agree with you, i though the dual shock has just as bad if not worse d pad than the 360. i remember the ps1 games i had problems with before analog was so common. ms should release a special cheap but good d pad controller for these older titles.

I guess I was one of the LUCKY ones last nite!! I saw it and had to do a double-take!! These are how weekends should be, Demo's and XBLA Games!! Who in MS made the lame idea for Dowmload Wednesday's?? Most people want to play on the weekend, how about a slight change MS???

Wow does thins bring back memories or what!

The Dpad isn't as bad as people make out, it's just not like the dpads of old, you get used to it definatly, im having great fun pulling off fatalities, well worth the creds unlike lumines.

Yeaaaa boi the game I was waiting for. Bought it while I was at my friend's house yesterday. Found out that though I lost all my skills (SNES controller was better too :P), I still remembered a lot of the moves, hellz yea!

And yo kevinski, I remember UMK3 for my SNES the way you described it, with a crapload more characters and all. And this one is different. There were always 2 versions? Confusing.

I'm going to purchase this game as well. I was really surprised how at home I felt when playing it. Now if I could just dig up my tattered strategy guide to this puppy... I forget all the fatalities and babalities and animalities and friendships (I can't believe that they put these in a game).

The D-PAD sucks for this game. After owning it all weekend, I cannot even beat the novice tournament. Only about only one out of every five attempts to pull off a move ever work. I can press back, back, LP to throw a spear(scorpian), but instead i somehow keep jumping in the air. Good port though.

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