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"Ultimate Mortal Kombat for the Nintendo DS hits with a great deal of power thanks to one key addition – online compatibility.
Don't bother playing through the game in single-player mode. You win a few matches at first, but then the artificial intelligence smacks you to the ground, no matter what you do. Projectile attack? It avoids it and kicks you in the face. Jumping attack? It counters with its own quicker jumping attack. Foot sweep? It moves out of range and then closes in for the kill. It almost gets to the point that you'll want to break your DS."
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"The main gameplay takes place on the bottom screen while the top screen displays a character's move list. This is quite a welcome addition for a game with so many different commands, but the problem here is that they didn't add them all! Why not go the distance and place all the commands instead of just enough to fill the screen in the desired font. The command list showcases five moves per character (even if they do have more) and each character's two fatalities, animality, bababilty, and friendship. They really should have added the deathtrap commands."
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Gamer's Temple
"Fighting on the Nintendo DS goes online courtesy of Ultimate Mortal Kombat, a two-game compilation that contains a quality port of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and a version of Puzzle Kombat, the MK-themed puzzle game that Midway inserted as an extra in Mortal Kombat: Deception. By itself, as a single-player game, it's a bit of a dud. But if you're a fighting aficionado with a DS and wireless access to the Internet, this is a pretty cool package."
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Gamespot
"November 19,2007 - This is really shaping up to be quite a year for handheld fighting titles. Bleach: The Blade of Fury was a pretty good game that had some nice touch screen features thrown into it. Now Midway has released Ultimate Mortal Kombat, which is essentially a direct port of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. While the game doesn't make use of both screens entirely well, the arcade-to-DS translation works out greatly."
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Gamer 2.0
"Ultimate Mortal Kombat. The name suggests that the game's something special, something in-depth, something all-encompassing, what with "ultimate" in the title. In reality Ultimate Mortal Kombat is simply a truncation of the title "Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3," the version of the arcade game that capped off the fighting series' use of 2D gameplay mechanics and digitized actors. It's not the "ultimate" in Mortal Kombat by any means - that arguably could go to the 1996 mash-up release of Mortal Kombat Trilogy. But this is an arcade emulation of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the Nintendo DS, and a really good one. To spice things up, the company also converted the satirical puzzle game Puzzle Kombat created for Mortal Kombat Deception, and then went one step further and made all versions fully playable over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service. Not "ultimate" by any means, but certainly worthwhile."
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IGN
"Soon Midway will further its quest to bring classic Mortal Kombat games to every imaginable platform with Ultimate Mortal Kombat on the Nintendo DS. It's become woefully evident in the past few years that improved hardware doesn't necessarily equate to proper emulation of classic arcade games, so we were a little wary of how well this one would play on a system as relatively simple as the DS. Luckily, it seems our concerns were misplaced because it looks like Midway has managed to efficiently cram the entirety of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (and then some) into this cart."
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Gamespot
"We're getting closer to the November release date of Ultimate Mortal Kombat, Midway's conversion of Mortal Kombat 3 and Puzzle Kombat for the Nintendo DS. Midway sent over a work-in-progress version of the game so we could get our Kombat on for the weekend. If the attached letter didn't inform us that the version sent over was still a work in progress, we'd assume the game was done, ready to ship, out the door complete. But that's when we had a lock-up that required a hard reset. Yep, they're still ironing out what kinks are left in the product. Very few, actually...even for a "preview" build Ultimate Mortal Kombat on the Nintendo DS is pretty much done."
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IGN
"Sitting like a lighthouse in the sea of Stranglehold and Unreal Tournament 3 promotion in Midway's private business center, Ultimate Mortal Kombat's beacon reminded us all that handheld gaming is not dead. It may have only been a couple of weeks since IGN last got its hands on the upcoming package, but the Leipzig Games Convention seems as good of a time as any to hop on and try the classic fighting franchise once more."
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IGN
"LEIPZIG, Germany--The Mortal Kombat franchise has made it to pretty much every platform imaginable over the years, and we're long overdue a Nintendo DS appearance. The first game to carry the name is a double pack comprising ports of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Puzzle Kombat. While neither title makes use of the DS's touch-screen capabilities, they both offer wireless multiplayer game sharing locally and online using Nintendo Wi-Fi connection."
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Gamespot
"After making its way to Xbox Live Arcade a few months ago, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is now en route to another modern day system -- the Nintendo DS. Going by the name Ultimate Mortal Kombat (minus the "3"), the DS game combines UMK3 with the Puzzle Kombat mode from Mortal Kombat: Deception onto a single cart."
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1-up
"A few months back Midway revealed that it would be producing a Nintendo DS version of its Mortal Kombat arcade franchise. Earlier this week the company stopped by the IGN offices to show off a near final version of that product: a complete and accurate emulation of the arcade version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, as well as a portable rendition of Puzzle Kombat, the mini-game included with Mortal Kombat: Deception."
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IGN
"Anyone familiar with the Mortal Kombat franchise will immediately recognize the name Ed Boon -- he's the one half of the original two-man design team still with Midway working on the Mortal Kombat franchise. When Midway let slip that it would be releasing Ultimate Mortal Kombat for the Nintendo DS, we couldn't resist throwing a few questions to Mr. Boon about this portable rendition due out in November."
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