I've played a few classic towers and online games in Mortal Kombat 1 last night, here are my first impressions:
Tonight I'm starting the story mode. Really looking forward to it!
- Game runs flawless on my system. Locked 60fps on ultra without DLSS and no stuttering
- Online matchmaking is fast and stabile
- Always online in single player is annoying. Losing internet connection = back to the main menu. This happened twice for me, but this was caused by my powerline or network adapter, not by the game's servers.
- The game looks and sounds amazing!
- Combat is excellent. No more separate bars for offense and defense. Huge amount of both easy and hard combo's.
- No more annoying end boss fight! Final boss is a regular fight with Shang Tsung, which is great. There's also a mirror fight before Shang Tsung.
- Kameo's are okay. They add variation to the game and can be used in many ways (different attacks, breaking combo's, throws etc). Kameo characters can also perform their own fatalities and brutalities! The screen can become cluttered when both fighters are using kameo attacks tho.
- Tutorial is excellent as usual. No more character specific tutorials tho, only combo challenges
- The crypt is gone! The shrine they replaced it with is boring and needlessly time consuming.
- Mileena is still my favorite character. The vampire chick is my favorite newbie.
Tonight I'm starting the story mode. Really looking forward to it!