I've lovede the music to the game series ever sinse Soul blade. I just wish somebody would get around to ripping the soundtracks to the games in Psf and Psf2 format. The only thing thatreally drives me up the wall with Soul Calibur is that Sc3 hasn't had a Gamecube release, that means I'm probably going to have to buy a Ps2 before I can actually play the game.

As I said before in this topic, I actually think i enjoy the plot and atmosphere of Soul Calibur more than Mk. Partly it's the music, and partly it's the plot as well, I love the fact that Soul Cailbur is actually set in the real world, using historical events (like the Oterman empire's take over of griece), as part of the plot, admitted a couple of charactors like Asteroth (daaaamn you, tod Mcfarlen), stretch the bounds of belief a bit, but stil, it's mostly true to life.

Oh, and I wish they'd actually decide to kill some charactors in the Mk plot line! (points scornfully at Jonny cage and Lucang).

Sorry to spoil things for people, but Leu's death in Da isn't exactly perminant, niether I believe is Shaokarn's for that matter (check out deception or the Mk plot faq by a chap called Subzero 78 if you want to see what I mean).

I do like some aspects of the Mk plot, but i JUST WISH THEY WOULDN'T HAVE CHARACTORS COMING BACK FROM THE DEAD IN MANY MANY LUDICROUS WAYS. i'LL PROBABLY BUY A pS2 AT SOME POINTESPECIALLY AS IT'LL BE GOOD AND CHEAP WITH THE x360 REVOLUTION AND pS3 ON THE WAY ----- THOUGH COME TO THINK OF THAT, IF IT'S TRUE YOUR GOING TO BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD MANy old nintendo games from the internet with the revolution, I'll probably have to save up for one of those as well.

Shaokarn clone? My contrived plot sense is tingling!

As far as Kang goes, if I remember rightly, Kang's body was resourected by the Dragon King, (it's what the chap does after all), but because Tsung had eaten Leukang's soul, the body went around as a zombi killingmachine, until Kang's soul could catch up with it, thanks to Ermac.

that's another thing, as far as I understand the deception plot, Ermac basically turns out to be the most powerful person in history, just because they needed somebody to come along and save the day, which Imho is a litle silly, especially for a charactor who started out as an Error Macro in Mortal Kombat 1.

Btw, I've written a Mortal Kombat monopoly board file for the Kitchensinc game, with all the Mk fans on this board I thought people might appreciate it. I've just posted it off to the address on the Mods page, so hopefully it should be available for people soon, it's a sort of best of, with stages in from all the games, unless I was going to use charactors as squares (something which might be a litle silly), there weren't really enough stages in one game to fill the board, so we've got stuff from mk1, a lot from deadly Allience and deception and a couple from Mk4 as well (I had great fun turning the electric company into Raiden's staff, Lol).

Thanks. I've not got any reply yet, I assume Richard and co are busy.

I hope the board is worth the wait. I just wish the game would let you change the currencey along with the square names, I'd much rather have had platinum or onix coins than Dollars.

Indeed, I'm not sure what's happened to everyone, may I suggest that they,
Get over here!!!!!!!

;D.

Hmm Robjoy, I've not personally played Mk4 ---- I probably ought to. There's a huge and very angry sounding arguement in the two Mk plot faqs, the one by Subzero 78, and by Gavoc about Reico and Shao carn, being a huge Mk 4 fan, you might find it interesting.

I was thinking of Karn's death in Deadly alliance, where he's supposedly killed by Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, ---- well that is until Mk deception, where it's revealed that that was apparently Carn's clone that was killed.

This is my general problem with the Mk plot ----- it's hardly possible for any charactor to die, without ludicrously coming back in some way shape or form, I remember when the original Mk3 came out, and my first thought was, oh good grief! things have really gone to pot if half the cast has snuffed it, then Midway bring out ultimate, and everybody's suddenly back, ditto with the very gorey and quite shocking death of Carn and Lieu Kang in Deadly alliance (I love that Fmv!).

I like the Mk plot, I just wish Midway would put in a bit of developement, the way Namco have done with Soul Calibre (and even Tekken),and Capcom have done with Streetfighter.

Btw, I've been thinking for a while of how you might go about creating an audio one on one beat-em-up, a combo system like Deadly alliance would be possible I suppose, but there are so many other factors (like the distance, speed and collision range of each attack), that I just can't see how you could translate.

Well, i think that is not right, because you can see in the ending, when reiko sits down on his throne, which was his, shao kahns. Well, i don't know maybe midway complicating these things.
And, since raiden and stuff are gods, they can do everything. That means, mk will never end, if you wanna bring back a char, you can, just find out  a story around the resurrection, and thats all.

I've confirmed things on the matter of Kahn. I had someone describethe ending to me, and Reaiko sits down on the thrown, then the helmet slips onto his head or something like that. But I stick to my point. Armageddon is having Reaiko and Kahn as separate chars, so that makes the canon fact that the two are different people. Again, sub0961's fAq says that the two are different, and most of the plot guides I've read say that as well.

Well there you go. As for another mk plot guide, go to the combat povillion.
http://tabmok99.mortalkombatonline.com
That gives you a plot faq, and you can read it. And there's actually a link to that theory about Reaiko and Kahn... And apparently, he is Kahn, until Midway says something otherwise. And as Armageddon is having them as different chars that just goes to show.

this topic is getting more and more interesting!
keep the replies coming! now the topic is going full mk, (not just mk4) i'd like to say something about mkda. i do like deadly allience, but the kombat system is totally different.
it's a great system though. there's a history thing somewhere in one of the menues and it goes through all the games and it said that they wanted the marcial arts in deadly alliance or something.

No, if you have the pc edition no you wont. Adn even if you play it via a playstation emulator, you wont need.
Well, mk (stands for mortal kombat) is a fighting game, where you have to defeat your enemies using combos like down back low punch (this is the combo for jarek's 3 blade tech), and if you successfully do the combo, your character will perform different skills like throwing shurikens, throwing a fireball, etc.
You can play the game without those combos as wel, but they cause more damage and often easier to perform (especially if you are with a short-handed character like Johny Cage, because you have to go closelly to your enemy to hit him). You can also kick, use different weapons (from mk4 only and higher). After mk4, you can use different fighting styles like dragon (i think it is wih sub-zero, and scorpion), and a lot of stuff which i didn't write here.
Also if you defeat your enemy, you can perform a finishing move (like tearing off the enemy's leg and hitting him with it until he dies).
So, shortly, this is a game with lots of blood, cool sounds, funny moves (in mortal kombat trilogy (one before mk4) with kano you can do an animality finishing move, which is funny). As far as i know it doesnt support multiplayer, so that is one drawback, but it is really cool for a personal contest, or a one by one match against friends.
The game supports lots of things which i doesn't want to write here, because it will take ages to read, lol, but if you would like to learn about mk, you can e-mail me and i will answer as soon as possible.
(sorry for the long post)
R.J.