Mortal Kombat 4 (GB)

"Mortal Kombat 4" is a video game released for the Gameboy Color console in 1999 by Midway Games. It is based on the long standing fighting series of the same name. In the United States, the game received a rating of "T" which deemed it suitable for ages 13 and above due to its graphic violent content. It is noteworthy that the original "Mortal Kombat" game was released as a full sized cabinet arcade system. This allowed the developers to make use of a wide range of buttons, functions and other implements to enhance gameplay. Throughout history the progression of this title was ported to numerous consoles which featured a greater ...  Read the complete review

I thought, like every other Mortal Kombat 'worshipper' that since the other Mortal Kombat games were great on other platforms, such as the playstion and the even the sega mega drive, that this Game boy colour version would be just as good. I was wrong. Frankly, the graphics are dull and each character is represented by a 2-coloured streak on the middle of the screen. Some may argue that this is on a low powered machine like a gameboy, so this fault should be dismissed, but I've seen better on the gameboy - take streetfighter alpha, for example. Despite the characters being poorly made, the backgrounds themselves are also just 3 or 4-coloured blocks ...  Read the complete review

This game is good for a gameboy game I mean in the way of graphics etc, for the gameboy this is great because on the gameboy you have noy got good graphics so for the gameboy this good. The only problem with this game is that all of the games of Mortal combat on the playstation have the same moves and now they have the same moves on the gameboy as well as on the playstation. This game is good for the gameboy but if it was on the playstation it would not be good. ...  Read the complete review