Mortal Kombat: Deception

Mortal Kombat: Deception is the sixth installment in the Mortal Kombat franchise. Based on the Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance engine, players once again have to fight to stop this new threat in the sixth…

77 4 October 2004

Card & Board Game Fighting Puzzle Role-playing (RPG) Action

Mortal Kombat: Deception is a card & board game developed by Midway Games, released 4 October 2004 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What Mortal Kombat: Deception is

Mortal Kombat: Deception is a card & board game game developed by Midway Games and released in 2004. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

As the deadly alliance of Quan Chi and Shang Tsung emerge victorious against Raiden's warriors, a new evil, the Dragon King and former emperor of Outworld Onaga, appears to seek the six artifacts (the Kamidogu) that grant him supreme power over all realms. The main protagonist is Shujinko, a warrior with the power to copy other fighter's abilities who was deceived into ressurecting Onaga prior to the main story. To accomplish this task, Shunjinko traverses all the realms, from his native Earth Realm to the hellish Netherealm, while tutored by the grand masters of Mortal Kombat. However, once Shujinko accomplishes his task, he discovers that he has been a pawn in a plot to restore the evil…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Mortal Kombat series

Mortal Kombat: Deception is the 36th of 118 entries we hold in the Mortal Kombat series. It arrived a year after Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition. The next entry was Mortal Kombat: Deception - Premium Pack in 2004. Its critic score of 77 is almost exactly the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate at 97.

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How it was received

Mortal Kombat: Deception holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 58% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 109 votes.

What it launched against

Mortal Kombat: Deception launched on 4 October 2004, within three weeks of Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.

Cheats and codes

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