It is notable for its use of digitized actors to represent the game's fighters, as well as its use of copious amounts of blood during gameplay. Mortal Kombat began its life as a 2-player arcade title.

The Fatality is a move unique to each fighter that graphically kills the loser in a blood-soaked finale. When the opponent faces their second round loss, the winner can perform a finishing move called a 'Fatality' on the loser. Fighting is set as one-on-one combat, allowing each player to perform a variety of punches, kicks, and special moves in order to defeat their opponent. It adds nearly all playable characters from the Genesis/MegaDrive versions of Mortal Kombat 1, 2, and 3 -including the absent Sheeva, and also adds new backgrounds, specials, combos, finishing moves, and missing audio samples. Mortal Kombat is a side-scrolling fighting game. Description: This is a hack by KABALMK of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the Sega Genesis. As the last tournament required draws near, Raiden, Thunder God and protector of the Earth Realm, enacts a plan to tip the scales in the humans' favor, Seven fighters step into the arena on Shang Tsung's mysterious island: Shaolin warrior Liu Kang, Special Forces operative Sonya Blade, the mercenary thug Kano, fame-seeking actor Johnny Cage, the ice-wielding Lin Kuei warrior Sub-Zero and his undead adversary Scorpion, and Raiden himself. Goro has been reigning supreme as the undefeated fighting champion for five hundred years now. September 13th 1993, colloquially known as Mortal Monday, became as dividing line in the battle for 16-bit supremacy. Knowing that if ten tournaments in a row were won by the Outworld champion, the Earth Realm would be conquered by evil and fall into darkness, Shang entered Goro in the tournament and had him defeat the great Kung Lao. Mortal Kombat 3 is a Fighting video game published by Sculptured Software, Williams released on 1995 for the SEGA Genesis. Shang was accompanied by Prince Goro, a warrior of the Shokan race (a four-armed half-human / half-dragon). Five hundred years ago, an ancient and well respected Shaolin fighting tournament, held every 50 years, was corrupted by an evil and elderly sorcerer by the name of Shang Tsung.

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