It's been a very hard week in my gaming world. Where have all the good games gone? I think there's a bit of a 'waiting for the X-Box' feeling around. So I'm afraid this is the best of a bad bunch... Mortal Kombat Advance is based on Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.
Unfortunately, as much fun as this portable incarnation is, it's very hard to enjoy it after experiencing the seamless gameplay of MK3, and compared with other great portable fighting games, such as Street Fighter II, Turbo Revival and Tekken Advance it seems to fade into the background. It's not a bad game - in fact, it's a great game that plays badly. The timing is way off, the graphics are poor and, perhaps worst of all, you punch the button to instruct your fighter to punch his opponent, but it seems to takes him three days to do so. (HM)