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Retailers Divy Up Klassic Mortal Kombat Fatalities

Posted on Tuesday, December 14 @ 14:00:00 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

Remember roasting your buddies with Scorpion in Mortal Kombat II? Toasty and all that?

I don't. I never possessed the mechanical memory to pull off a fatality without looking at a cheat code sheet printed off the Internet. Still, retailers Best Buy, Gamestop, and Amazon are trying to bank on that nostalgia about as hard as Warner Bros. games is.

If you've got a preferred fatality, you'll need to know where to go to unlock the classic fatalities in the new Mortal Kombat. Best Buy nabbed Sub-Zero's classic fatality, Gamestop has Scorpion's, and Amazon has Reptile's.

While I understand the reasoning behind retailer-specific preorder bonuses, this seems like a bit much. Should I be hitting the Revolutionary Rant key (it's just CAPS lock, but I put a special label on it)?

Related Games: Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2

Comments

schimmel
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Dec 14th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Well now I feel ripped off. If I want all 3 fatalities I have to pre-order and purchase 3 different copies of the game. This retail exclusivity is getting far too out of hand to deal with, and I want it to stop.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Dec 14th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
It wouldn't be a problem if fatalities weren't such a central part of Mortal Kombat. Divying those things up seems like a bit much.

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Lien
Joined: Feb 2008

Posted: Dec 14th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
...and what if you buy the game from neither of these branches :(

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UpAndAtThem
Joined: Mar 2009

Posted: Dec 14th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Yes, that has gone too far. As a result, I'm definitely not buying the game anywhere.
You want my money, stop pulling this shÏŠt!

(did I successfully circumvent GS's anti-bad-word-censor-program?)

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UpAndAtThem
Joined: Mar 2009

Posted: Dec 14th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Oops, I obviously meant GR's. But I did get my cursin' to work.
FÎ¼ck yeah!

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Hatecrew
Joined: Sep 2010

Posted: Dec 15th, 2010 at 11:51 am
If you guys notice.....Games nowadays make most of their money via Extra DLC. I've seen this so many times. You waste your hard earned money on a game to realize that you have an incomplete game and you have to download the extra features, characters, and so on. So I wouldn't be surprised if in a few weeks after the game drops, PSN and Xboxlive have the extra fatalities for a small fee. Regardless.....I'm still getting the game. It has KRATOS for christ sakes.

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