Mortal Kombat 11

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3.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 677 Ratings

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  1. strangermoon
    May 24, 2023
    8
    mk 11 have great graphics even still unreal engine 3. animation and face quality amazing but as mk game stages variarty not strong. compared mk9 komplate edition with more old stages remakes again mk11 with mkx feels not fully mk. they feel more like ps2 mk games lacking of orginals souls . some mk movie skins and 90s dlc character on feels good but save the day.
  2. Osoqu
    Mar 30, 2023
    6
    Design: 8
    Mechanics: 6
    Content: 3
    Replayable game, but quickly gets boring.
  3. Top1saraya_
    Mar 24, 2023
    8
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  4. Tmsa2005
    Jan 7, 2023
    8
    Still not better than mk9 and mkx.Mk9 and mkx were had a so hype and fast gameplay but mk11 gameplay is so slower than them.
  5. sirgamer44
    Aug 2, 2022
    0
    Wanna ruin your best selling gaming franchise? Well, learn from MK11 and you will succeed fast! MK11 is worst MK of all time and you know why? Because they took all the iconic characters and absolutely ruined their look, in every way possible. They made all female characters as ugly as possible and gave them worst possible outfits of any fighting game. They don't even look like sameWanna ruin your best selling gaming franchise? Well, learn from MK11 and you will succeed fast! MK11 is worst MK of all time and you know why? Because they took all the iconic characters and absolutely ruined their look, in every way possible. They made all female characters as ugly as possible and gave them worst possible outfits of any fighting game. They don't even look like same characters anymore. I hope they explain in next game that MK11 Kitana was just from another Universe and now classic REAL Kitana is back. Because if they don't, i wont even care if they make MK12. MK11 was literally insulting video game. Only character that looked good was Noob Saibot, only character. That's not enough and ruining legacy characters is not good way to sell your game either. Why was Kitana Asian, serious question. Why? She has ALWAYS been white. Always. in every game ever, she was white and in movie she was also white woman. Why or even how, would you randomly change her race? It makes no sense. Absolutely no sense. And all the costumes were trash as well. MK9 remains as last and also one of the best MK games ever, MKX was fine, but didn't have best roster and sadly MK11 ruined it all. I rather play any 2002-2006 era MK game than 11. These games were way better, had way better looking characters and actually good costumes. Also why would they ruin Skarlet like that? She was my favorite new female character in MK9 and in MK11 she looks NOTHING like in that one. She looks like completely different person. It's not enough that you say "-this is Skarlet". No. She needs to look like one as well. It's like making sub-zero Pink and saying "well this is sub zero now", Doesn't work like that. Not even sure they can fix any of this in MK12. Would they just go back to old looks from MK9 and say that MK11 was mistake? Would they make Kitana White again? pretty sure they wont, so sadly i'm confident MK is over. Thankfully i can still enjoy all the old ones that were actually phenomenal.… Expand
  6. ProfAmateur
    Mar 18, 2022
    8
    Deutsch & English:
    Das ist das erste Mortal Kombat das ich spiele. Ich bin positiv überrascht. Im gegensatz zu Tekken 7 kommt man viel besser rein. Die Attacken und Combos können im Kampf im Menü aufgerufen werden.
    Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass der Story-Modus wirklich eine gute Story hat. Hat es aber :) Die Cinematic-Cutscenes wurden hervorragend animiert. Es wurde viel Aufwand in die    Deutsch & English:
    Das ist das erste Mortal Kombat das ich spiele. Ich bin positiv überrascht. Im gegensatz zu Tekken 7 kommt man viel besser rein. Die Attacken und Combos können im Kampf im Menü aufgerufen werden.
    Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass der Story-Modus wirklich eine gute Story hat. Hat es aber :)
    Die Cinematic-Cutscenes wurden hervorragend animiert. Es wurde viel Aufwand in die Mimik investiert, die Gesichtsausdrücke sind sehr glaubwürdig.
    Die Attacken sind sehr cool animiert und auch mit nicht ganz so schweren Tastenkombinationen kann man lässige Moves ausführen.
    Es hat noch ein paar weitere zusätzliche Mods zum spielen und die Zeit vertreiben.
    Doch seid gewarnt, das Spiel ist wirklich brutal - also nichts für schwache Nerven.
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    This is the first Mortal Kombat I've played. I am positively surprised. In contrast to Tekken 7, you get into it much better. The attacks and combos can be called up in battle in the menu.
    I would not have thought that the story mode really has a good story. But it does :)
    The cinematic cutscenes were superbly animated. A lot of effort was put into facial expressions, and the facial expressions are very believable.
    The attacks are very cool animated and even with not so hard button combinations you can perform casual moves.
    It has a few more additional mods to play and pass the time.
    But be warned, the game is really brutal.    … Expand
  7. TheBasicReviews
    Jan 27, 2022
    2
    Story: 30/100
    Gameplay: 70/100
    Graphics/Art Style: 70/100 Music/Soundtrack: 70/100 Character Design/Costumes: 20/100 Regular Enemies: 60/100 Bosses/Boss fights: 10/100 World/Level Design: 40/100 Playability (Bugs and optimization after patches): 70/100 Would I Play It Again?: Not even, if someone would pay me to play it Where Does It Rank In My Top 500 Video Games of All Time    Story: 30/100
    Gameplay: 70/100
    Graphics/Art Style: 70/100
    Music/Soundtrack: 70/100
    Character Design/Costumes: 20/100
    Regular Enemies: 60/100
    Bosses/Boss fights: 10/100
    World/Level Design: 40/100
    Playability (Bugs and optimization after patches): 70/100
    Would I Play It Again?: Not even, if someone would pay me to play it
    Where Does It Rank In My Top 500 Video Games of All Time List?: Doesn't fit into Top 500

    Rating: 20/100    … Expand
  8. xMarkoFightx
    Jan 7, 2022
    10
    Gráficamente hermoso y muy entretenido. El modo historia es una locura y la personalización casi no tiene limites
  9. VigilanteOito
    Jan 4, 2022
    9
    Joguei pelo gamepass, fora isso não jogaria devido ao preço abusivo.
    O jogo evoluiu muito em relação ao X, em termos de texturas, história e gameplay.
    Não comprei nenhum lutador, isso é ridiculo.
  10. jarvitom
    Nov 15, 2021
    7
    Quality game, frustrating multiplayer and community lots of grinding needed which I don't like.
  11. Bioreactor1987
    Oct 19, 2021
    7
    Изменения боевки мне зашли и как файтинг мк явно вырос в этой части.
    Сюжетка и кат сцены хороши, хоть стандартная тупость незеррелм файтингов и в наличии.
    Но...Скарлет...Что они сделали с моей девочкой...Не прощу!!! Пихать повестку в игру, где все друг другу выпускают кишки...Отличная идея! (НЕТ!) У меня 90% бывших были симпатичней этих женщин из мк... Окай, скройте тогда сисяндры    Изменения боевки мне зашли и как файтинг мк явно вырос в этой части.
    Сюжетка и кат сцены хороши, хоть стандартная тупость незеррелм файтингов и в наличии.
    Но...Скарлет...Что они сделали с моей девочкой...Не прощу!!!
    Пихать повестку в игру, где все друг другу выпускают кишки...Отличная идея! (НЕТ!)
    У меня 90% бывших были симпатичней этих женщин из мк...
    Окай, скройте тогда сисяндры всем мужыкам, а то лгбт файтинг какой-то...Объективация мужиков!!!Я оскорбился!!!    … Expand
  12. Tino2010
    Sep 9, 2021
    6
    The game keep crashing whenever I try to max out the games graphics my PC specs are i7 10700 5500xt 4gb
  13. F3T1W
    Aug 27, 2021
    7
    A bunch of grind, a high-quality project, juicy combos, finishing and interaction of characters, waited like no one else
  14. claxersaw
    Jun 26, 2021
    9
    Story mode is not good as mk 8 and mk x but its still worth to buy.This game has amazing graphics.Also great mechanics.You should definitely buy it.
  15. AlexRedfern
    May 17, 2021
    10
    Ok, they've brought Mileena back. I do not condemn SJW but the deal is a deal.
  16. magicvortex
    Apr 15, 2021
    8
    Yes some many characters are after pay wall. Yes there is some sjw stuff but i dont remember many right now, mainly Jax ending. Yes grind is strong here.

    But i liked game very much anyway, i started playing it late 2020 so maybe some bugs were already fixed. Got game and some expansions on discount so price didnt hit me hard. Animations are good, characters look good. I didnt play pvp    Yes some many characters are after pay wall. Yes there is some sjw stuff but i dont remember many right now, mainly Jax ending. Yes grind is strong here.

    But i liked game very much anyway, i started playing it late 2020 so maybe some bugs were already fixed. Got game and some expansions on discount so price didnt hit me hard. Animations are good, characters look good. I didnt play pvp much, mostly single part. For me its the best MK game, but its not perfect. Didnt see any pay2win yet, maybe it was removed.

    I would like to play Reptile and have different Jax ending though.    … Expand
  17. yeezymane
    Apr 1, 2021
    6
    Графика - 7/10
    Игровой процесс - 7/10
    Сюжет - 5/10
    Музыка - 5/10
  18. Gorbunov2004
    Mar 25, 2021
    8
    Женские персонажи стали какими-то страшными а Джонни Кейдж вообще какой-то Стас Костюшкин. Мне нравится что вернули старых персонажей таких как: Барака, Шао кан, Синдел.
    Но зачем давать возможность переодевать своих героев если для получения предметов кастамизации нужно гриндить в крипте. Из X RAY сделали Fatal blow который можно юзать 1 но иногда даже 2 раза за раунд. Но прикольно что в    Женские персонажи стали какими-то страшными а Джонни Кейдж вообще какой-то Стас Костюшкин. Мне нравится что вернули старых персонажей таких как: Барака, Шао кан, Синдел.
    Но зачем давать возможность переодевать своих героев если для получения предметов кастамизации нужно гриндить в крипте. Из X RAY сделали Fatal blow который можно юзать 1 но иногда даже 2 раза за раунд. Но прикольно что в игру можно завершить 2 разными концовками за хороших так и за плохих . Итог 8/10    … Expand
  19. GamerExe
    Feb 12, 2021
    4
    Amazing graphics, nice game gameplay, soundtrack is like a injustice 2
    but characters skins is poor and repetitive, broken servers , too much focus on competitive mode does not attract other types of players and always online with microtransations and DLCs characters.
    4/10
  20. Mazma
    Dec 25, 2020
    4
    Un picchiaduro, non so cosa dire, sono tutti identici, cambiano le combo? si ma fine dei giochi.
  21. fear_me
    Dec 19, 2020
    3
    Alright, I was going to put a whole backstory of how my love for this franchise goes back all the way to 1992, when I was nine years old and how my childhood and teenage years can be defined by two words: Mortal Kombat. But then it got too long and I realized no one cares. Suffice to say, I've been playing the franchise since its debut.

    Like most MK fans, I was hyped for MK11. Up until    Alright, I was going to put a whole backstory of how my love for this franchise goes back all the way to 1992, when I was nine years old and how my childhood and teenage years can be defined by two words: Mortal Kombat. But then it got too long and I realized no one cares. Suffice to say, I've been playing the franchise since its debut.

    Like most MK fans, I was hyped for MK11. Up until recently, I still was. That enthusiasm has subsided quickly once I actually started to play the game deeply. First, as you can see in a lot of bad reviews here, yes, a lot of fans do not like the political agenda that was injected around and into the game. No matter what your politics might be, keep them out of a product you intend to sell. It's common sense. You want to appeal to the largest number of people possible, not alienate a few, and then proceed to demonize them when they don't agree with your line of thinking. Whether you are a liberal or conservative, your message will upset roughly half the people either way. So avoid it. In the case of MK, the devs responded by saying "please, don't call them fans" when it was pointed out to them that some fans didn't agree with their ideologies seeping into the game.

    Well, I own Mortal Kombat 11 on Steam, Xbox, PS4, and Switch, all last three being the Ultimate version. So yeah, I am a fan... but not a fanboy. Big difference. So you bet, I will review every port I own appropriately.

    Graphics -They are absolutely fantastic, no doubt. This is the best looking fighting game at the moment and the best looking Mortal Kombat game ever made, by far. Yeah, lots of gear customization here, which seems to have become the focal point of this game. But once you start fighting red Scorpions or neon Sub-Zeros, along with some downright embarrassing and nonsensical costumes that are repulsive to look at, I wish the system disappeared forever. Preset skins like MK9 and MKX were the perfect compromise. This is MK, not Street Fighter or Injustice.

    Story - Poorly written, but entertaining nevertheless. I think the visuals and familiarity we have with the characters mask that downside quite well. No? Well, put that plot in a movie with unfamiliar characters outside the MK universe and you got yourself a box office bomb and a laughing stock.

    Sound and music - Sound effects are great. The music is boring, forgettable, and unmemorable, better suited in a superhero-themed game. Get rid of this orchestral garbage and bring back the East Asian undertones and kung-fu atmosphere that was part of the foundation of this franchise, please.

    Gameplay - It's very deep, the tutorial is great, one of the best I have ever seen. Frame data, block advantage, man - it's really something to get into. Makes you appreciate fighting games and how technical they can be. That being said it is slower than MK9 and 10, which bothers some people. I really like the customization of abilities, you can really put your gameplay style and personality into your character.

    Single-player - Making progress is nightmarish, demoralizing, ludicrous, an affront to nature, and everything that is good and decent. It's like EA and Konami got together to make something as greedy and as evil as possible. It's disgusting. I like to dive deep into games, especially Mortal Kombat, just really doing everything the game has to offer. Here, the only things being offered are frustration and despair. I'm talking about the grinding, of course. This should be called a "working for Netherrealm simulator" - a taste of what crunching might feel like, except you're paying, instead of getting paid. Let this sink in: people actually use a turbo controller exploit and the AI to play the game for them and make progress. It's the only way unless you abandon all life outside this game.

    This game is like a greedy pig of a mobile game. It absolutely destroys an otherwise near perfect MK entry. I cannot begin to tell you how sad, hurt, and disappointed I am. For the first time in Mortal Kombat history, there are online requirements. You cannot even enter the Krypt if you are not connected to the MK11 servers. And it's all because the in-game currency can be purchased from them as "Time Krystals", with real money. That's what is all about. Despite the initial deception, this game is essentially a big loot box from hell and I despise it for it. Will I continue to play? Yes, I already spent all that money. But will I buy MK12? I highly doubt that things will revert to what they once were. In fact, it can only go worse from here. So most likely, no. This is probably the last MK game I will ever buy. Unless online requirements and grinding is gone, I'm out.

    PC specific - This is the first port I bought. It barely ran initially and for some, it didn't even launch. Bad netcode too, constantly stutters and freezes. Graphics look amazing at high specs and 60fps all-around, if your rig can run it. I lost trust and interest on the PC port.    … Expand
  22. InfiniteGnosis
    Dec 9, 2020
    0
    One of the worst fighting games I’ve ever played, not to even mention the SJW/politically correct garbage. This game is trash in every conceivable way, to put it nicely.
  23. Micmicc
    Nov 30, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. While Mortal Kombat 11 may not be the 'best' or the 'most iconic' installment of the franchise, it definitely doesn't deserve all the hate it gets. This was my first game in the Mortal Kombat 'universe', all my prior knowledge was that I knew the names of most of the characters, so I pretty much started this game with knowing next to nothing about the story. Speaking of the story:
    --- Story ---
    Shinnok's decapitation was surely one of the most memorable moments for me, it set the tone of the story very well. After that Cassie gets her promotion and Raiden comes to tell us that they have to ambush the Netherrealm, so they do exactly that. When they're in the Netherrealm, I saw the fight choreographies really shine, it looked so good, it felt satisfying to even watch. The amazing fight choreography can be said about the entirety of the game, great job NRS & WB! I like the concept of Kronika, being able to reverse time, but this ability of hers hasn't been used that much, although when it is used, it's used quite creatively. As I've stated in the beginning, I dindn't know much about the story and I thought that Scorpion and Sub-Zero were enemies so I was surprised to see that they're allies. When they went to shut down the Cyber Lin Kuei factory and I had to fight against Cyrax and later Sektor I thought that I'd be able to play with them, because if they made entire movesets for them, why not use them for actual fighters? But to my dismay I found out that no, neither of them are playable. Skipping ahead to the ending (because I want to talk about other things and the 5K character limit), I really liked the ending; All of Earthrealm's forces against the one and only Kronika, Liu Kang gets Raiden's power and becomes a Fire God, fights with Kronika, wins and finally he rules all eternity with Kitana by his side. I also own the Aftermath expansion and all I want to say about that is I like Fujin, he seems much more intelligent than anyone in the story. Also, when Shao Kahn just smashes Geras until his head is completely gone, why doesn't he recover? You cut off his arm, he recovers, you cut off his head, he recovers. Anyway, the story is more entertaining than watching 5 movies combined, it looks absolutely stellar, it can even be viewed in 4K, the fight choreography is again, amazing, most voice actors did an excellent job and the music is so good, it feels actually important whereas in movie I don't really notice the music but here, it's there, that' for sure.
    --- Gameplay ---
    There's 4: Local, Tournament, Online & AI Battle. I'll leave out Tournament and AI Battle because I haven't tried those because I don't know enough people who have the game to play Tournaments with and AI Battle just doesn't interest me and I'll include Towers of Time and Klassic Towers because in my opinion it belongs in the Fight tab just as much as it does in Konquer.
    - Local -
    it's the standard Player vs CPU mode or is you have a friend over and another controller/keyboard (let me make it clear here, this game for me is much better with a keyboard. It's more satisfying and faster to complete a kombo, and it responds better than a controller). It could've been improved by letting players choose any character - including DLC ones - when choosing which fighter the Computer will control althrough I understand why it's not like this way; someone'd probably find a way around it to play with DLC characters they haven't purchased. Works fine, not much else I can say about it.
    - Online -
    This is the standard online mode where you can fight with other human players, not much else to say about this either. In my experience, every single time I play online ranked I get utterly destroyed by everyone. They say that they match players with similar skill levels. Matching me, a Lvl 33 with a Lvl 78 player doesn't seem like fair especially when everyone whom I've matched up against was much higher-levelled than I was and they never let me hit them once not matter if I blocked or not. Of course players' skill isn't the game's fault but match me with someone who isn't a god at this game, not to someone who is.
    - Towers of Time & Klassic Towers -
    Klassic Towers is just 4 towers some of which have Kronika as the boss. In my opinion Kronika is overpowered even on medium and I feel like this statement is completely justified; she has unblockable moves, attacks too much sometimes, if you fail to block at the right time she can take a third or sometimes half of your full health with 1 long kombo you can't avoid by blocking. It's easy to forget that Klassic Towers even exists and its quite the opposite with Towers of Time. ToT has some various modes to play through, even character oriented towers which I like very much. You can go against one stronger foe with 2 other players or unlock special towers and more. I enjoy this mode because of the variety. It's "just" towers yes but the way they use the mechanic of towers is quite creative in my view.    … Expand
  24. Green41
    Nov 29, 2020
    0
    "Спасибо" что заблокировали игру на территории Украины без объяснения всяких причин. "Спасибо" что дали возможность поиграть в вашу игру...
    "Thank you" for blocking your game in Ukraine, without giving any reason. "Thank you" for giving us the opportunity to play it...
  25. bestreviews2020
    Nov 13, 2020
    2
    Just came here to say, here's my negative review for this awful game............
  26. JimmieReview
    Nov 7, 2020
    5
    Mortal kombat 11 suffers the same issue as the older installations.
    The core fighting mechanics are good in this game and the graphics are amazing.
    I wish that this installation had the guts to try something new but the changes are so small (to gameplay) that they might as well not have bothered. Lot of the old characters from mk x has been brought here with the exact same annoying    Mortal kombat 11 suffers the same issue as the older installations.
    The core fighting mechanics are good in this game and the graphics are amazing.

    I wish that this installation had the guts to try something new but the changes are so small (to gameplay) that they might as well not have bothered. Lot of the old characters from mk x has been brought here with the exact same annoying issues as they had in mk x. For example, Goro is back and he still has a teleport jump move that can not be blocked. Its just as annoying as before to meet him, one would have thought they would have balanced that issue out but no.

    Another seriously sucky thing is that even on the PC, you can't customize gameplay _at all_.
    I dont like the "fatal blows" that you can do by pressing two buttons when your health is low - impossible to turn of even if your just playing with a friend. Why?
    There is no tweaking of any aspect of this game gameplay wise which sucks, it could have added some longevity to the game as you do get bored with it pretty quickly. This adds to the feeling of lack of innovation in this game series - such an obvious thing but they still refuse to add it.

    In general, it is a decent fighting game but it completely fails to do anything new. If you played any od the recent mortal Kombat games there is no incentive for you to buy this one, unless you really just want a graphical update.    … Expand
  27. lotrisgreatest
    Nov 3, 2020
    4
    Easily one of the weakest mortal kombat games. roster sucks, everythings is just so meh with this game. Costumes are awful. Only one who looks good is Noob Saibot. Maybe scorption too.
    Sub zero costume is literally sad.
  28. OntheRadio
    Nov 1, 2020
    4
    Could have been amazing, but is possibly worst MK game in long time, i'm unironically saying i would rather play MK4 than this again. Costumes (for almost all characters) look worse than MK 9 or MK X
    And in my opinion their classic costumes were big part of their identity, so this change makes zero sense. Roster is also disappointing, where's 3d era characters? Where's Smoke? Reptile?    Could have been amazing, but is possibly worst MK game in long time, i'm unironically saying i would rather play MK4 than this again. Costumes (for almost all characters) look worse than MK 9 or MK X
    And in my opinion their classic costumes were big part of their identity, so this change makes zero sense. Roster is also disappointing, where's 3d era characters? Where's Smoke? Reptile? Ermac? Sektor/Cyrax? Why there's tons of out place characters like Robocop or Rambo? ...    … Expand
  29. tom234
    Oct 31, 2020
    5
    Could have been so much better, everything feels kinda weird with this game. They try to be cool and edgy, but they actually aren't. It actually feels one of their softest games.
  30. kiryu22
    Oct 20, 2020
    4
    The Bad - SJW, Always Online Progression, Shady MTX, Denuvo, Awful Story, 50 Percent of the game is Always Online Krypt, Towers of TIme.

    The Good - Fighting Mechanics, Graphics, Sound are Excellent.

    Verdict - I would have scored this an 8 but had to half the score due the always online shenanigans awful MTX and the horrendous SJW antics injected to this game.
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82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Riot Pixels
    Jul 9, 2019
    91
    This mortal combat is still tons of fun. Realistic graphics, top-notch body and facial animations, extremely inventive violence and perfect sound effects. Ed Boon and Co. still make the best fighting games in town.
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  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Jun 26, 2019
    82
    At its core, MK11 is a great fighting game – and free-to-play elements, while unfortunate, do not significantly diminish the experience. [Issue#238, p.52]
  3. The Overpowered Noobs
    May 30, 2019
    50
    A refreshing addition to the series, with beautiful graphics and excellent combat, yet plagued with microtransactions that force you to choose between grinding or paying, as well as lackluster RNG systems.
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