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(More customer reviews)I'm just going to talk about the extras in the premium pack here. You can catch reviews of Mortal Kombat Deception the game by looking under the standard version.
By now, you are probably aware that the main benefits to the premium pack are the box it comes in, the metal trading card included in the box, the arcade-perfect version of the first Mortal Kombat game, the documentary-ish video detailing the history of Mortal Kombat, and the video trading cards. That's quite a slew of extras for $10 dollars.
One of my favorite parts about the premium pack is the inclusion of the original MK arcade game. It's fun to play it before you bust open the Deception disc because it will you appreciate not only how far Mortal Kombat has come, but how far video games have come since the original's release in '92.
There are a few things I was dissapointed with on the bonus disc. The biggest dissapointment was the quick, underinformative, breeze through on the history of Mortal Kombat that was kyted directly from Deadly Alliance with a brief addition on the end to talk about Deception and beyond. To those of us who already own MK Deadly Alliance, it's the same history that can be found in MKDA's special features. At least on the GameCube version, I don't have the PS2 version of DA. Anyway, it also lacked some of the major history of the Mortal Kombat series. It talked about MK, MK2, MK3, MK4, MK Deadly Alliance, and a brief bit on MK Deception.
Those of you who are fans, like me, should be looking at that roster and thinking... wait a minute... they missed five games. Yeah, they missed Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, which was definitely it's own game with all the additional characters and backgrounds and separate platform and arcade release than MK3. They also missed Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero, and Special Forces. These I can kind of understand because they weren't part of the fighting series, they were spinoff adventure games based on the characters in the series. OK, well then what about MK Trilogy and MK Gold? Or even just Trilogy (considering Gold only came out for the Dreamcast)? These were parts of the series. They also don't really do anything but scratch the surface of each game. They don't really talk about the new features added in each, and they tend to skip right over interesting quirks from the home consoles. I guess for somebody just curious about the overall phoenominan that is MK it was ... alright.
I was also very disappointed that they didn't talk at all about the fan following, the movies, the TV show, the toys, the clothes, the cartoons... well some things are better left forgotten... but these were all part of the history that made Mortal Kombat what it is today. To their credit they do show a few pictures of the toys, and there are a few mentions by Boon about how big the series got after the first installment. Doesn't seem like much of a history to me. They don't talk much about the revolution that MKs digital graphics spurred in quality fighting games. Sad.
I was hoping for a little more in those areas. I was also a bit dissapointed by the video trading cards. They were great... for the characters they had, but I'm not quite sure why they picked the characters they did, and didn't include others. When you look at the roster of characters in the video trading cards, you notice that the majority of the characters introduced in deception aren't amongst them. Also, they have many of the landmark characters, but skip out on some vital ones like Liu Kang. I wasn't sure why they didn't just pick either the line-up from Deception, or all the characters ever to be in MK. Instead they just picked a lot... but an interesting array.
These are all just little knit pickings I have with the premium pack though. Aside from the shortcomings of the history video, the rest of the features rock. The box art is stunning with Sub Zero, the metal trading card feels a lot more high qual than a paper trading card. The video trading cards have interviews with boon, sometimes the actors who portrayed the characters, and brief, interesting histories on the character, their design, or their origin. Definitely worth some time for MK fans.
Overall, for $10, it is an awesome deal! I would recommend splurging for the extras and going with the premium pack instead of the standard edition.
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An ancient Evil has returned from beyond death and threatens the very existence of the realms. Will the champion of the Elder Gods have the power to defeat this threat borne of deception? Designed for gameplay on Sony Playstation 2 systems.
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