Mortal Kombat: Deception
Mortal Kombat: Deception, sixième volet de la franchise Mortal Kombat, est sorti le 4 octobre 2004 et a été développé et publié par Midway Games sur PlayStation 2, Xbox et Nintendo GameCube, utilisant le moteur RenderWare. Basé sur le moteur de Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, le jeu propose les modes Arcade, Versus et Practice ainsi que de nouveaux objets dans le Krypt, et introduit les modes Konquest Adventure, Chess Kombat et Puzzle Kombat comme mini-jeux supplémentaires. Les versions PlayStation 2 et Xbox offrent un mode en ligne compétitif, tandis que la version GameCube se distingue par l'absence de jeu en ligne mais inclut Goro et Shao Kahn comme personnages jouables exclusifs. L'histoire voit le retour de l'alliance mortelle de Quan Chi et Shang Tsung vainqueur contre les guerriers de Raiden, avant l'apparition de l'ancien empereur d'Outworld Onaga, le Roi Dragon, à la recherche des six Kamidogu pour obtenir un pouvoir suprême. Le protagoniste Shujinko, un guerrier capable de copier les capacités d'autres combattants et trompé pour ressusciter Onaga, traverse les royaumes sous la tutelle des grands maîtres avant de découvrir sa manipulation, forçant les champions à l'arrêter. La presse a salué l'évolution du gameplay, Game Informer évoquant une progression effrayante au-delà de la simple violence, tandis que XGP Gaming a comparé la prise en main à une boîte de vitesses nécessitant de l'entraînement. Certains joueurs sur Metacritic ont décrit l'entrée comme l'une des plus complètes et expérimentales par son contenu, tout en relevant le caractère extrêmement sanglant et inapproprié de la série. L'ensemble affiche une note moyenne agrégée de 73,85.
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Avis des critiques et joueurs
Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« The gameplay has evolved to a frightening degree, and exacting painful death upon your opponent is only the tip of the bloody iceberg...Deception is easily the most-accomplished fighter to date. [Oct 2004, p.120] »
« It's like shifting through gears in a sports car. It takes a little practice to get good at it and the timing needs to be just right, but once you get the hang of it, it handles like a dream. »
« Midway went the extra mile and added new, fresh gameplay options, full online play, and a nice helping of polish into an already quality title. If you're a Mortal Kombat fan (or fanatic), you can't pass this up. »
« features a staggering amount of replayability, Live play, hours of unlockables, multiple gameplay modes, and far more than any other fighter since "Soul Calibur." To say that I enjoyed the game would be an understatement. »
« The gameplay is riveting and exciting, the visuals and audio some of the best ever, with enough ways to play that will keep you busy for months. »
« With an excellent versus play, an addictive Puzzle mode, and a strategic chess mode, MK: Deception is chock full of solid gameplay. Add to this a decent campaign mode which is a necessity for cool unlocks, and you have yourself a certified console fighting classic. »
« This is the definitive Mortal Kombat title. You have more fatalities, self-fatalities (hara-kiri), stage fatalities, more characters, four deep modes of play, unlockable Krypt items, and online play. »
« Whilst Deception is much better than "Deadly Alliance" and the inclusion of online play is done flawlessly and is great fun, the main single player attraction is just so dumbed-down and chore-like that it's not a whole lot of fun and I couldn't imagine ever going through it again. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« Una de las entregas más completas y experimentales de Mortal Kombat, que amplía el universo con ideas nuevas y mucho contenido. Muchísimo contenido. Modo Konquest innovador. Historia más épica. Sistema de combate mejorado. Modos extra creativos (Chess/Puzzle Kombat). Puntos débiles: Balance de personajes irregular. Algunos modos secundarios simples. IA algo inconsistente »
« En general los juegos que involucran cierta cantidad de sangre de por si pueden ser desagradables, pero los de Mortal Kombat son muy sangrientos e inapropiados (con cosas tan feas que ni siquiera voy a escribirlas), no sé cómo es que no está prohibido y eliminado en todo el mundo (nadie debería jugarlo, tiene cosas fuertes y brutales, en el mal sentido), que a nadie se le ocurra comprarle eso a sus hijos porque es muy mala influencia. »
« Brutal fatalities, good characters, good konquest mode, and puzzle Kombat was fun. »
« Best 3D fighting ever Best game mortal kombat ever I recommend play this game if you have Playstation 2, Xbox, GameCube and PlayStation Portable »
« Expands and refines the formula of its predecessor. This is the best of the three MK fighters available on the Xbox. It's a slick fighter with a fun campaign and tons of content that can be unlocked in the "Krypt". Unlike "Deadly Alliance", this one included online play. It also added "Konquest", a single player online mode and a "Tetris"-like puzzle game. Overall, "Deception" is a ton of fun. I would rate it with an 8.5 out of 10. »
« Great fighting game with a decent story. This game has so much variety to it with a lot of modes and collectables in the form of pictures, music and videos. They put so much into this game, I wish some of the later games would've had as much content as this game did. In terms of the regular gameplay, I prefer the 2011 MK over this one, but it's still fun. »
« Mortal Kombat's jump to the 3D fighter world was as fun, yet extremely awkward. The movement is nowhere near the level that games like Virtua Fighter, Dead or Alive and Tekken are at. The combos, even the more intricate juggles were all easy to figure out within a few hours of having the game, and some characters just feel stronger than others. Mileena can do a 9 hit combo that involves juggling and popping back up enemies for 30% damage, while Kobra and Scorpion can get that in a 4 or 5 hit BnB combo. Most of us know by now Mortal Kombat is not the most intricate and execution heavy fighters around, and the main draw isn't the fighting at all, but the fatalities after the fact, because even if your brains are gone, you can probably still play Mortal Kombat. The game is a decent attempt at a 3D fighter, and is certainly fun, but ultimately is overshadowed by its 3D fighter contemporaries. »
« My favorite Mortal Kombat game. The graphics are great. The character models, battle damage and blood look better than Deadly Alliance. The soundtrack is good but I like Deadly Alliance more. The sound is reused from Deadly Alliance but the voice acting and sound effects sound way better. The gameplay has been improved with the combo breaker mechanic, death traps, Hara Kiri's and the classic two fatalities system. I love the way that they brought back classic stages from the original Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Deadly Alliance. I also love that they brought back classic characters like they did with Deadly Alliance. The only thing I don't like is the Konquest Mode. It is a good mode but it's too short and the emphasis on finding collectible chests in which some of them are really hard to find and to unlock most of the extras, team photos, stages, costumes and fighters that are in the Krypt can get really irritating. I hate the way if you wanted to learn moves and battle classic characters you had to find them, then practice their moveset then go to a different area and fight someone else and unlock items which I found to be very time consuming as you already have practice mode to use and you can buy unlockables in the krypt. The ending is bad and Shujinko is dumb. They should have stayed with the Deadly Alliance version of Konquest mode as it was easier to earn money and you could buy the things you wanted in the Krypt. Another thing I didn't like is that some of the new characters and their fatalities are bad but not as terrible as Deadly Alliance. Most of the new and classic characters used recycled win animations which was a cheap thing to do. The game's arcade mode is WAY too short with only 6 fights as Deadly Alliance had much more and I think the Hara Kiri's were a waste of time. Overall, A great Mortal Kombat game. Buy it. »
