Mortal Kombat Trilogy

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Mortal Kombat Trilogy
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Midway (US) GT Interactive (EU)
Developer: Midway, Point of View
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code US 1997-08-08 T-9704H EU 1998-04-11 T-25414H-50 BR 199x 191356
ESRB BBFC USK Tectoy

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Mortal Kombat Trilogy is an entry in the Mortal Kombat series, developed and published by Midway. Trilogy is the last of the series to use pre-rendered 2D graphics, with all future sequels being presented in 3D (apart from re-releases). Among other consoles it was released for the Sega Saturn in 1997.

Gameplay

Fighters

Mortal Kombat Trilogy essentially adds any fighters from Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II which were missing in the previous release, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Until the release of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon in 2006, this was the largest roster of fighters ever seen in a Mortal Kombat game.

While the graphics for the returning fighters are partially updated (save for Johnny Cage who has an entirely new actor play the character), the bulk of their assets come from the older games, so don't quite mix as well visually as the Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 additions.

	Johnny Cage
	Noob Saibot
	Baraka
	Cyrax (LK-4D4)
	Sonya (Blade)
	Rayden
	Rain
	Shang Tsung
	Kitana
	Kano
	Scorpion
	Sub-Zero
	(Human) Smoke
	Reptile
	Jax (Major Jackson Briggs)
	Mileena
	Sektor (LK-9T9)
	Liu Kang
	Jade
	Sheeva
	Kung Lao
	(Cyborg) Smoke
	Nightwolf
	Sindel
	Ermac
	Sub-Zero (classic)
	(Kurtis) Styker
	Kabal
	Goro
	Shao Khan
	Kintaro
	Motaro
	Chameleon

History

Trilogy is a second update to Mortal Kombat 3, and builds upon the features found in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. As well as making all the boss characters available to play from the start, it also brings back many fighters and stages from Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II, with various upgrades.

The Sega Saturn port, handled by Point of View is a direct port of the Sony PlayStation version, released a full year later. It is said to be slightly inferior as it lacks many of the transparency effects and several voice samples. It is still considered to be a better version than its Nintendo 64 counterpart, however, which due to cartridge restraints had to axe several important features.

Mortal Kombat Trilogy saw many positive reviews though has been criticised for its many glitches and extreme difficulty.

Magazine articles

Main article: Mortal Kombat Trilogy/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source GamesMaster (UK) 86 №64, p74 Saturn Power (UK) 81 Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) 88

	85
Based on 3 reviews

Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score GameFan (US) NTSC-U 71 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 85 GamesMaster (UK) PAL 86 Saturn Power (UK) PAL 81 Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) PAL 88

	82
Based on 5 reviews

Mortal Kombat Trilogy

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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	515,480,784		CD-ROM (EU)	T-25414H-50 V1.000
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	515,454,912		CD-ROM (US)	T-9704H V1.000