- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Brady Games; 1 edition (21 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0744001730
- ISBN-13: 978-0744001730
- Product Dimensions: 27.5 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance marks the return of the famous series, now for next-gen consoles. In addition to brutal fatalities, which have long set the series apart from other fighting games, this title features an all-new fighting system, special-weapon combat, and a gripping storyline. The story focuses on two sorcerers' pursuit for control of a tournament, in order to gain immortality. Unable to achieve their goal separately, the two decide to join forces. Their deadly alliance is likely to destroy the universe and the mortals. The game has new and familiar characters, each with unique fighting forms and the ability to change styles, full 3D movement, and realistic fighting effects. Not Final Cover.
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Midway Games Inc., is a leading developer, publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment software. Midway video games are available for play or scheduled for release on all major video game platforms including the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox™ video game system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube™ and Game Boy® Advance.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This guide is absoultely brilliant, it gives special moves and combos that aren't displayed in the moves list, an in depth story of all the characters, the full krypt and how to earn the koins.
Format:Paperback
I bought this book ahead of my nephew (whose a pretty adept gamer) coming to stay for the weekend.
It enabled me to hold my own with him - nuff said!!!
Seriously, if you've never been particularly good at MK, this book will sort you out a treat. And of course you can impress with knowing how to unlock all those secrets in the minimum time.
Only drawback is it doesnt contain a full breakdown of the contents of the Koffins, which I thought was a bit prissy of the publishers - if I'm paying money for a guide I dont expect them to be selective in what they include!
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Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance? -Good. This guide? -Not.
25 Jun 2003
Format:Paperback
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is probably the best fighting game out there. However, when I bought the guide, I realized that it was exactly the same info that could be found in the character's Konquest mode, and by pausing any game and bringing up the character's moves. The guide only adds a few combos, and it never covers any character's fighting styles very well.
For instance, looking at Johnny Cage, even though it says "he works very well in all of his fighting styles," they only go into small detail on Jeet Kune Do. With Shang Tsung, they only really explain two of his fighting styles. No matter the character, the guide actually tells the player to stay in one fighting style! This is extremely boring, and a bad idea, considering the fact that each style has some merit. It's obvious when you read it that the author didn't spend a whole lot of time with most of the characters. After reading storylines like Johnny Cage's, which explains he never died in the MK storyline, only in one of his movies (this was done to quiet some fan-boys [mad] that he was still around. Next up should be explaining to them that Scorpion's been dead in every game...), the author still says something about him being ressurrected (for this game), again. This is one of the many, many over-sights in the guide, and it shows the author's over-looking of details.
When you play MK:DA, each character has three different fighting styles, usually 2 hand-to-hand styles and one weapon style. The fun is switching between them to confuse your opponent, and accessing the different moves in each style. Where this guide fails is describing each style's strengths and weaknesses. The guide only touches on select styles, and usually doesn't give enough info on these. If the guide would've had a few more pages per character, this might have fixed the problem. As it stands, the guide is almost useless. It promises on the back to reveal "Krypt secrets," but no, you have to buy a seperate, "Krypt Pocket Kodes" book to find out what's in the Krypt--the book doesn't even touch on it, therefore lying to the potential customer. (The Krypt is a huge "graveyard" which allows a player to sapend earning "Koins" from battle on the 675 or so "koffins" in the game, which contain secrets like alternate costumes, hidden characters like Kitana and Reptile, etc.)
After all is said and done, this guide doesn't really cover anything that isn't already available in the game, but it does make this info readily available. For hardcore MK fans, or people who hate pausing the game constantly only, otherwise it's pretty worthless.
AMAZING!
19 Feb 2011
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The book showed up in good condition.. a bit of bending but whatever the book is older then most people I know that play the game.. it was over all perfect for what I used it for.. and It shipped on perfect TIME...
Great guide, 4.5 stars
16 Jun 2008
Format:Paperback
This guide is crammed full of everything you need.
True, the game is pretty much self-explanitory, but the guide is definitely still worthwhile (not to mention the artwork). You get cheats, secrets, some moves you've never thought of, and more. So I agree with the other reviewer - I give it 4.5 stars.
True, the game is pretty much self-explanitory, but the guide is definitely still worthwhile (not to mention the artwork). You get cheats, secrets, some moves you've never thought of, and more. So I agree with the other reviewer - I give it 4.5 stars.
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