Yes, this time around, you actually have to choose if you want to see your character’s ending. From here you select one of twelve different symbols, each one giving you a different prize, one of which is getting to see your character’s ending. If you manage to beat Shao Kahn this time around, which you probably won’t be able to do without some serious cheating or AI exploitation, you’re sent to a screen called ‘Shao Kahn’s Lost Treasures’. This game does not want you to beat it, ever. Even worse, the endurance matches from the original Mortal Kombat have returned, and on higher difficulties you even have to face three opponents on one round. Anything you try to do, it’ll find some way to punish you for it. If you try to jump backwards, nine times out of ten, it throws a projectile that will more than likely hit you.

For example, if you try to jump towards it, it jumps at you and does a kick, every single time.

Now the AI will counter nearly everything you do from the first few matches, and it’ll do it so well that there’s absolutely no way it isn’t cheating. Unfortunately, the AI’s been made much more brutally unfair compared to the original MK3. The single player mode has been changed a little, so now you have four difficulties to choose from when you begin a game.

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