Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (360 Live Arcade)

[Pirotic]

Got the full game, the interface is lovely - Nice to see a developer making an effort to make it look like a native game (Street Fighter II just looked like a cheap emulator).

A fews complaints however: you cannot change the button configuration, the game hangs if paused for more than a minute, the difficulty is all over the place and the screen is too far to the left for some reason, as if it's overscanning which means I cannot stretch it to full screen without a lot of it being off to the left :P

If they fix these problems, it's well worth the 800 points. I'm under the impression it wasn't supposed to be released until Wednesday, but when they released it by accident (then pulled it) they realised they had no choice but to release it early - could explain a few things.

[Jebus]

A fews complaints however: you cannot change the button configuration, the game hangs if paused for more than a minute, the difficulty is all over the place and the screen is too far to the left for some reason, as if it's overscanning which means I cannot stretch it to full screen without a lot of it being off to the left :P

The difficult is rather strange, seems easy all the way except for the last two fights (three if you count Noob Saibot who just murders you) and I think the fourth fight (which for me was fighting myself). I found the fights inbetween very easy!

I paused the game for about 5 minutes and it didn't hang...done that a few times now no probs! Also no probs with the screen position for me that I've noticed either!

[Pirotic]

Must just be me then, I always pause it to check out the fatalities on GameFAQS and when I come back to try to unpause and babalitity some poor sod, the xbox has locked out.

[Silvergun X]

I've noticed that too - EVERYBODY chooses smoke!

I do the same - Choose smoke, but do the Human Smoke cheat and pwn them with some scorpion style goodness.

[Jebus]

Must just be me then, I always pause it to check out the fatalities on GameFAQS and when I come back to try to unpause and babalitity some poor sod, the xbox has locked out.

Exactly what I was doing when I paused it...no probs!

I've noticed that too - EVERYBODY chooses smoke!

I do the same - Choose smoke, but do the Human Smoke cheat and pwn them with some scorpion style goodness.

Clear your friends list mate, can't play tonight now, but will see how good you are soon!

[Jebus]

He's popular 8)

I played some ranked matches today, 5 in total with only one laggy game. 2 x flawless in the first match then had my ass handed to me 4 times on the trot.

The question is, does anybody NOT play as smoke on this game?

[J0e Musashi]

They need to add a button configuration option, as it sucks on a DOA4 stick. It's quite easy though, I got two achievements the first time I played.

I play as Scorpion, and occasionally Liu Kang. TBH I only bought this because I just got 4,000 points free. I doubt it'll get a lot of play especially if they don't sort out the button options, especiallly when is MK2 better all the other MKs.

[Jebus]

The only achievements I've not got :

100 ranked wins
10 ranked wins
Friendship in a live match
Beat Noob Saibot

I think I can get 3 of those 4 but the 100 ranked wins is never gonna happen, I absolutely LOATHE achievements like those that just reward people for playing a game over and over and over again.

This is even eclipsing Cloning Clyde as my most played arcade title.

[TheForce]

I love UMK3 (I own the original arcadecab of UMK3), and they did a pretty good port to the 360, I've played a few online matches and it worked perfectly (no lag at all), it's just somtimes takes some time to actaully find someone to fight against, and sadly most quit after one fight....

I can play with most characters, but I do prefer: SubZero, Cyrax, Smoke, Stryker and Scorpion.

only downside to the game on 360 is the horrible horrible HORRIBLE controller !!!!
I really need a decent controller to play games like DOA4 and MK3, the 360 controller is perfect in almost everyway, just that controlpad is horrible.

[Pirotic]

The online mode is bloody difficult, I always end up against people spamming the same combo over and over, and as soon as I figure out how to get out of it (2nd/3rd game) they quit and never play me again :P

Reptile (my favorite) seems really weak in comparison to most other characters.

[sj33]

Okay, educate someone who doesn't really know too much about MK (other than playing it a fair bit in 'the day')!

What does UMK3 have that MK Trilogy does not? I remember the big fuss about UMK3 coming out on the Saturn but not the PS1 (and it never did come out on the PS1 did it?), but the PS1 got MK Trilogy a whole year before it finally hit the Saturn.

When MK Trilogy finally did hit the Saturn in late '98, the general attitude was that there was no point if you already had UMK3.

[SUMIRE]

Amazing, I bought a Live arcade title, and its actually pretty entertaining. I think what I like about this game is the crappyness of the characters and the awesome speech. The front end is pretty good as well.

[TheForce]

Okay, educate someone who doesn't really know too much about MK (other than playing it a fair bit in 'the day')!

What does UMK3 have that MK Trilogy does not? I remember the big fuss about UMK3 coming out on the Saturn but not the PS1 (and it never did come out on the PS1 did it?), but the PS1 got MK Trilogy a whole year before it finally hit the Saturn.

When MK Trilogy finally did hit the Saturn in late '98, the general attitude was that there was no point if you already had UMK3.

back then, the PS1 had MK3 , but just after MK3 was released they released UMK3 in the arcade and short after for Saturn, UMK3 had more characters and most important you could start combos with jump and punch, so the fighting mechanisme of UMK3 was (much) better and faster as in MK3.

but in the end PS1 got the best version of MK ever made, Trilogy, it had the fighting mechanisme of UMK3 and it had all characters that have ever been in a MK game. So Trilogy is the best most complete of the series, and in Trilogy you could do a brutality.
After they went to 3D and I never liked that much.

[Myth]

Right I got this the other day and absolutly crap at this.

All I want to know is if anamalities are in this because I haven't been able to do one yet.

[eastyy]

I really hated the computer AI from MK1 to UMK3

First few battles no problems then suddently it gets frustratingly hard with the CPU seemingly able to counter every move