If you’re looking to buy the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for its online mode, you might want to reconsider your options. This compilation has what is by far the worst netcode out of any fighting game I’ve ever played. It’s somehow worse than The King of Fighters XII’s notoriously awful netcode.
I don’t even know where to begin. The biggest problem is that the game runs at about half the speed no matter what. I played Mortal Kombat II and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 online and the results were exactly the same. You can’t play it like you normally would for that fact alone. Inputs get dropped and it’s nearly impossible to do moves on reaction. There were moments when I tried jumping and kicking and the jump wouldn’t even register.
It’s completely unplayable. You can only host 1-on-1 lobbies, there is no support for spectating, no replays, or anything like that. You can’t even see the name of your opponent during a match. How is any of this even acceptable? It’s not.
Here’s some footage I just recorded of a match I played online. Ignore the fact that I don’t know what I’m doing (I was Sindel), and pay attention to how slow the game is. That’s what it’s like for every match on PSN. Who knows if the XBLA version is any better. I don’t really want to test my luck, and neither should you.
The Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection is a lazy port that feeds off your nostalgia. If you want a great fighting game with an amazing online mode, get Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike instead. It has 8-player lobbies, a spectator mode, a replay channel, YouTube uploading support, GGPO netcode, and so much more.
Bodachi
I’ll stick to my copy of Mortal Kombat Trilogy, if the online is like that.
Forrest_01
Weren’t Tim Static & Ewashock on about slowing the game down (before they went on to tell us about their dog having rabies, biting their child & the child having to be put down or something)?
Maybe it’s that! :P
Crazy_Del
LOL haha brilliant!
Mr-Flame-Head
well im not really interested in getting it for the online side, and as far as sf3 goes I havnt been able to play online once as it seems very few people are ever connected at the same time, plus whenever I watch replays a load of them are just people cheating there way to the challenges
Sad Panda
Was considering this for Local Multiplayer, I’ve yet to play an online fighter thats not been ruined by lag. Thinking about it though, the newest MK is the best of the series I’ve played and I still own it so there’s no point.
job
It’s a shame. I was hoping online was going to be great
Dan Lee
The only other time I’ve seen Del this annoyed is when I picked my nose and wiped it on his Street Fighter Arcade Stick…
Delriach
YOU DID WHAT?!
justboy
Doesn’t look that bad to me!
juggernaut 420X
mortal kombat is a true arcade game.it was and never will be a online game just like street fighter those are games that were ment to be played pvp and not online.im old school mk from 1996 i was also top 100 at the time for arcade. this game is by far hard for nubs.it takes manual imput,timing and true skill to play mk,something new games lack cause everyone is lazy and likes to use simple controls. i just got it and i put it through a real test and all the finsh moves work,all my old combos still work only down fall is online play but like i said the game was never made to be played or was ever made to be played online
l11l1VeNoM1l11l
Juggernaut…no offense man, but stfu. That was the worst paragraph I’ve ever read in my life in terms of intelligence. I’ve been a fan of MK since ’92 myself…tell me WHY it’s not meant to be played online? Sure it wasn’t back then, but there’s 0 reason any of the classic Mortal Kombat games shouldn’t be playable online via a broadband connection. I should smack you right in the mouth for trying to defend this monstrosity.
Anyway, I tested it on Xbox Live…it’s just as bad. It’s painful think they could have released something like this, but they suuurrreee did. It doesn’t make sense to me, though. UMK3 was on Live a while ago and performed WAY better than this. And MK2 was on PSN and performed way better than this. Of course they both performed slower than the actual arcade cabinets, but still better than this. How could they screw up recycled code this bad? And yes, it is recycled code. It’s all very poorly emulated, recycled, wishywashy code that should have been rebuilt from the ground up in the first place.
Please tell me how the DS handled UMK3 flawlessly, both online and offline, but the PS3 and Xbox 360 can’t get ONE decent version.
I spent about an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with my internet connection because I thought it was all connection-related lag. Then I log on here for the first time to find out that Mortal Kombat Klassics is just a really, really shi**y game. How the ;op23ith;oihfglk6ahfg can they screw this up? I waited for it for months and finally paid $10 for it. Oh…and WHERE THE HELL does this Arcade compilation use “Unreal Technology?” It boasts about it in the beginning along with the other 20 stupid things that you have to skip through.