I love the Mortal Kombat trilogy but I have a certain nostalgia for this particular era. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 was my first game and this is like that game on steroids. This has almost every character at the time, the combat is great, and the graphics look cool. If I had one complaint it's that this game can be insanely difficult and the "difficulty modes" in the options do not affect all AI enemies. So even on "very easy" mode the game will still get difficult eventually. That aside, this is a great Mortal Kombat game and may be one of my favorite fighting games.

La versión definitiva de MK3, UMK3.
Se podía jugar con los boss.
La viceada que le pegué a esto no tiene explicación

The definitive version of MK3, UMK3.
You could play with the bosses.
The vice that I gave to this has no explanation

I have absolutely no skill when it comes to fighting games. I have a terrible memory for special moves and I never know when to block or attack, so I’m not going to be a good judge for games like this. Mortal Kombat Trilogy is essentially Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 with some characters and stages from Mortal Kombat 2 and 3 added, although the aggression bar that makes you slightly more powerful is new.

I know a game isn’t for me when the character select screen is too difficult. Quite a few characters are just reskins of other characters, and there are no character names whatsoever on the character select screen. I tried to choose Sub Zero, pretty much the only Mortal Kombat character I know, but ended up with someone called Rain. Oh, and there’s a timer in the background so it will select whoever you are on when it tuns out.

I did manage to pull off one special move, and there are lots of fancy effects as punches and kicks are made. According to N64 magazine, though, it just simply isn’t as nice looking as the PlayStation version of the game. The N64 version also lacks a bunch of charaters.

There are a few multiplayer modes where you can select multiple characters, but there’s not a lot to choose from. In singleplayer, you can fight through four difficulties, each having more fights to get through.

Even setting things to “very easy”, I struggled to get the hang of this game. There’s no practice mode or move lists (that I could find in the confusing menu), other than using player 2 to stand there and do nothing.

Based on the comments from N64 magazine, there’s not much reason for anyone to play this version of the game. I did cheat my way though one of the campaigns to see different levels. I got to play a space invader clone at the end, which I enjoyed more than the main game.

basicamente é uma versão bacana do mortal kombat 3 com modo agressor que é uma mecanica nova do jogo que o player fica em modo rage tambem tem personagens de mk1 e 2 pra jogar é basicamente a melhor versão do mk 3 se for jogar recomendo a de ps1 ela tem loading mas tem muito mais conteudo que a versão de n64 já a versão de n64 a unica coisa boa e não ter loading ai vai do jogador alias a versão do n64 não tem os personagens de mk1 e mk2 e o continue e limitado tem 4 continues enquanto o de ps1 é infinito.

One of the last times I cared about Mortal Kombat for its existence as a fighting game was MKT. I was still living where all of my gamer friends did and we played a lot of fighting and racing games. I relished playing all of the characters on all of the maps at the time right on the couch next to my buds. A few years later I had moved away and the draw to fighting games in general had waned so I would only go back to Mortal Kombat with any real excitement for one other release (Deception) and it was only for one mode: Konquest.

look man it's umk3 but even more stupid, i love that shit
the roster is expansive and very dumb, it feels like you're playing mugen sometimes but mugen is one of the best things ever
i played the every loving hell out of this game as a child who was probably too young to be playing it but that's neither here nor there
it's just a lot of fun and it has all the pros and cons of the game it followed up except more cons but i don't really care about them
the game looks like shit in comparison to the arcade ports but that's just the nature of ports at the time
speaking of, i played the GOG release which is probably the best way to play it outside of n64 on original hardware
native xinput support baby

you probably have an opinion on this game and it's likely that umk3 is better, which it is but my favorite smash game is project m and this game being my foundational fighting game is probably part of why that is