Mortal Kombat Trilogy

Mortal Kombat Trilogy features the same gameplay and story as Mortal Kombat 3, but adds characters and stages from the other three arcade games, including Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Some completely new…

51 10 October 1996

Arcade Fighting Action Fantasy

Mortal Kombat Trilogy is an arcade developed by Avalanche Software, released 10 October 1996 on Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Sega Saturn and DOS. The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.

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What Mortal Kombat Trilogy is

Mortal Kombat Trilogy is an arcade game developed by Avalanche Software and released in 1996. It was published by GT Interactive Software. It is available on Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mortal Kombat Trilogy is a 1996 fighting game released by Midway as the second and final update to Mortal Kombat 3 for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn and PCs. Further versions were also released for the Game.com and R-Zone. It features a similar basic gameplay system and the same story as Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, but adds characters and stages restored from Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II. New additions to the game included the "Aggressor" bar and the Brutality mechanic. The game was met with mixed to positive reviews upon release.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Mortal Kombat series

Mortal Kombat Trilogy is the 20th of 118 entries we hold in the Mortal Kombat series. It arrived 9 months after Mortal Kombat 3. The next entry was Mortal Kombat 4 in 1997. Its critic score of 51 is 24 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate at 97.

See all 118 Mortal Kombat games in release order →

How it was received

Mortal Kombat Trilogy holds a critic score of 51 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 19 points below the year average. Players rate it 62, 11 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 8 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Mortal Kombat Trilogy launched on 10 October 1996, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Wipeout XL and Twisted Metal 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Wipeout XL, Twisted Metal 2.

Cheats and codes

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