Blood is basically the stuff that fights off viruses and gives you life. Well, the red substance that pours out of the combatants must be colored water because there is no life in this game.

First off, we'll say that this gore is old. The red stuff may have been the factor that drove Mortal Kombat to fame, but nowadays when we treasure 3D fighters that realistically approach fighting over bloody 2D combats, you really start to look at the game differently. The blood is also not realistic since a small blow to the face will bring a huge splatter. Hit your little brother see if blood flies all over the room.

The fatalities were cool in the first Mortal Kombat (who didn't love using Sub Zero to rip off your best friend's head, spine and all?). Well, Eddy and Johnny musta run out of ideas since a lot in this game are pretty pathetic (Ermac's fatality where all he does is lift his hand and the game bounces and blows up is pretty laughable). The friendships are pretty much the same all together, and the animalities are, well, dumb. Most are just renditions of one color, and Mileena's rat attack is too cute for a game like this, while the brutalities are just standard stuff.

Combos are good for thumb workouts, and the fighting is just plain not fun. The sequence of a fallen enemy is just falling over from MK 3, and the fatalities still leave limbs stranded in air and body parts that don't fall over like they should.

Characters, Americanized to the max, look almost as pathetic as War Gods' fighters. Also, expect 4-5 versions of each character. Though the grand total of characters is 32, it feels like 8.

While the graphics look sharper than the 16 bit versions and the 32 bit games, they do not use any of the Nintendo 64's power.

I like the Trilogy Idea, incorporating 3 games in a series and putting them in one game, but what a terrible game to waste it on. We could've done without this one. Nintendo 64 just suffered a kick to the face.

Overall: 4.0