Mortal Kombat: Deception (xbox 360)
Review
Posted On: Nov 21 2005, 11:08 AM
Patrick McCarron of
TRMK has posted a review of Mortal Kombat: Deception on the
Microsoft X-Box 360. The game is playable on the new platform
thanks to a software emulation (see the news article from Nov 14 2005
for more information). Below is a part of the review:
The game starts off with the intro video and main menu, which looks
pretty crisp and clear being rendered at my Xbox 360's High Definition
1080i resolution on my 52" HDTV. All the game's Profile functions appear
to work just fine, saving to my Xbox 360 Hard Drive without a problem, I
had no Xbox 360 Memory Card to test though. I can also connect fine to
Xbox Live and search for games. The Krypt and special Kontent areas all
appear to be working as expected. Even the Area 51 Game Demo appears to
work perfectly. I noticed the fonts are corrupted a little bit, see
below screenshots, but it looks stylish in a way so most people won't
notice this as a problem.
Everything seems too good to be true, and unfortunately it is. I decide
to fire up a game in Arcade mode, and am presented with the character
selection screen followed by the tournament ladder. Immediately I can
see the increased quality of rendering the game at 1080i in the details
of the tournament ladder mountain and the characters. I was really
excited until the game actually loaded up a fight scene.
Unfortunately, the fight scenes are emulated fairly poor. The game
camera keeps getting blocked by polygons that pop over the action
constantly. The character I was playing with would develop some polygons
stretching out past the camera view. It would only get worse the next
round, as I find some stages are worse than others. The game started to
slow down and redraw polygons across the camera surface, totally making
the game unplayable. In one stage the screen was completely covered in a
rainbow of polygons, so bad that I had to force a reboot of the system
to quit out of the game.
On a positive note, the details on the characters and surrounding stage
backgrounds really stand out. Their rendering quality looks really great
in High Definition 1080i. The graphics don't look quite realistic - more
plastic like - but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Overall the
upgraded graphics in Mortal Kombat: Deception were a welcomed surprise.
Once all the bugs are fixed, it should look amazing. Below is the best
shot I could get between the glitches with my camera.
So I quit out of Kombat mode and decide to take a turn at Konquest to
see how that is. It started with more of the same, as there were more
glitches in the intro training sequence. But once I passed that,
Konquest ran pretty well and looked really crisp and clear. There was an
occasional slow down and choppiness but it wouldn't last for more than a
second or two.
Overall the emulation for the backwards compatibility needs some work.
So much so I'm surprised this got past Microsoft's Quality Control
department. But once the issues are resolved by Microsoft, all Mortal
Kombat fans should be in business with the Xbox 360.
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Click
here to read the original article and to see some screenshots.
Today, at last, Microsoft opened up about
which Xbox titles you'll actually be able to play on Xbox 360. Along
with a compatibility Q&A on the official site, Microsoft released an
initial list of Xbox games confirmed to be compatible -- more than 200
already. Have a good look: Half-Life 2, Halo 2, check and check. Jade
Empire? No problem. Super Bubble Pop fans, do not despair. Best of all,
you can keep those tummies tight: Yourself! Fitness is so ready for
X360.
Of course, backwards compatibility requires a software emulator -- one
good reason to grab the premium X360 package which includes a hard drive
and the emulation tools.
Microsoft will be continuously updating the compatibility list with new
titles, so be sure to
check the real deal frequently.
Here they are so far. Get ready for it:
...
Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
Monster Garage
Mortal Kombat: Deception
MTV Music Generator 3
Murakumo
...
Mortal Kombat: Deception appears to be the only Mortal Kombat
game compatible with XBox 360. However Microsoft will
expand the list of supported titles very soon and the others two games
might soon join Deception.
Click
here to see the list of all supported games to date.
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pages in the news archive may be broken, because the news are old and
some of the sites have updated their database and probably they have
deleted the linked files.
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