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9.10.2007

Unchained is the PSP version of MK Deception. The single player modes variety of difficulty levels insures that you don't get unduly frustrated while the large character roster (including 6 more fighters than the Play Station 2 version) adds variety into the mix. Fighters have three fighting styles each, one of which is a weapon style (except for Blaze who has three unarmed styles) plus special moves.Anyone who's played Mortal Kombat Deception before may only be slightly disappointed that the blood has been decreased a little in this version. The blood 'n guts are in there though and nothing's been censored (*cough* Nintendo *cough*), there's just a little less splatter left on the ground during the fight itself.That is however only in the general fighting! The stages death traps will still make mince meat (sometimes literally) of your opponents with all the splatter of their former glory. Speaking of blood, the fighters retain their two fatalities each. My only criticism of these is that one or two fatalities can become a little 'masked', covered over by the dark background. For example during Mileena's Sai fatality her opponent stumbles back while dying into the darkness, so you don't see all of the fatality. It doesn't totally spoil it but it is a bit of an oversight. The fatalities are all here except that Blaze who is one of the six new additions doesn't have any, not even a Hara Kiri which makes him feel like an incomplete fighter. Ah, and the Hara Kiri. Don't want your opponent to finish you off once you've lost? Then do it yourself! Yup your fighter can commit suicide. Obviously you still loose but it's the principle of all fighters who are off their tiny little rockers to not want their opponent to get the kill.Konquest is where I am a bit disappointed. You are Shujinko the game's hero going through all the years of his life on a long quest to find the six Kamidogu (tools of the gods you see), while exploring and fighting your way through the realms. In this mode you can unlock secrets, gain Koins that you use in the Krypt (more on that in a mo) to unlock graves that contain bonus features (videos, pictures, character art etc), while uncovering the plot (you also gain these koins in the single player game). Only thing is it's actually a training mode disguised as an adventure. You see you meet plenty of characters whereby you have to train with them, even having to go through all the super basic moves you only press one button to activate, and this happens A LOT. My heart began to sink as I had to `train yet again'. This is what practice mode is for! Although it fits with the story of Shujinko needing to learn different fighting styles did I have to be forced into `press this button, then this one, then that, and that again' over and over again?? Yeah the exploration is decent enough and it's fun fighting and uncovering game items but you should have been given the option of just fighting these opponents AND the option of training to choose between. That way you would still fight when supposed to and not want to fall asleep. Practice mode does its job of training well and it's an option you can select any time you want.As mentioned before the Krypt is where you unlock extra media etc. This is also where you collect the items you found in Konquest. In the console versions not all of the characters were selectable, as you had to open them up in the Krypt. In Unchained all those characters are selectable from the start. With that and the number of items in the Krypt in mind the developers still didn't decrease the Krypt's size, and thus you get a huge amount of boring graves with just Koins inside rather than extra items. You gain Koins to uncover Krypt items not to get more Koins for the sake of it surely? The Krypt really should have been smaller because there is little point in opening up graves if there's nothing really new inside (don't try this at home kids!).Unchained is the best example of Mortal Kombat out of all its 3D versions. It could have done with a tweak here and there but the faults are only small and don't spoil the overall game play.