Mortal Kombat Vs DC Universe: Collector's Edition

This really is the Mortal Kombat you know and love.

The DC characters are very powerful and yet well balanced with the MK characters. The special moves are ace and yet it never resorts to button mashing. Its more a game of timing and countering your opponents moves.

The special moves are visually awesome (most notably Captain Marvels) and despite some seemingly unfair special moves that seem impossible to counter (I'm looking at you Flash) there is always a way to counter or a character you can use to overpower them. The single player story mode is strong (although the voice acting is cheesy and at some points a little lame - However their is some genuinely funny dialogue) it's basically just a tenuous set-up to get both sets of characters in the ring.

Arcade mode sees the return of the towers, whereby you work your way through a list of characters (you can choose to fight just MK or just DC or a mixture of both) with every character having an alternate ending sequence.

Online mode is everything you could have hoped form. Out of the 50 or so fights I've had I only experienced one bit of nasty lag, and that was on release day. There has been no lag since.

Playing your mates online is easy thanks to a user friendly lobby creation system. But offline you can manually adjust the character AI mid fight in practice sessions to really perfect your skills.

The collectors edition comes with a cool comic that serves the purpose of setting the scene of the game whilst your at work before you get home to play the game. The free poster is cool but useless if your over the age of 17. But the metal tin is cool. Whether it's worth an extra fiver is a matter of preference. There are no extra characters with the special edition.

All in all, it's good solid fighter with great online support and a fun single player campaign.

I am a big fan of mortal kombat and this isnt a bad fighter its just a bit lacking in blood and gore witch leaves us with an ok fighter with rubbish fatalites

Buying this game having played both story mode and arcade mode i can say that this game is not worth the £40 spend. Story mode is very predictable and repetitive, And lacks a good plot . Also there is no intro into the story-line of the game in the beginning, as you normally would expect from mortal kombat games, which was a bit odd. A game such as this requires an introduction in to why two worlds have collided. Adding to the disappointment there is no good extra features. A real waste of money!!

mortal kombat has ealways been rubbish and its a shame the amazing dc had to be brought down to it level,had it been only dc characters it would have been a 5 star game but still decent

Mortal Kombat, for me, is the best fighting series around at the moment. It isn't too complicated (Unlike SF4) , there are a lot of fighters (Unlike Soulcalibur) and the graphics are truly incredible. Facial animations in particular stand out but it's always nice to see the ever busty MK female characters wobbling around (Catwoman isn't bad either.) Strangely, hair doesn't move like you feel it should but smashing people through walls or into the ground looks awesome. As you would expect, Superman can use his laser vison, Batman uses an array of gadgets (as does the joker) and the Green Lantern can use his ring in extremely satisfying ways (make what you want of that.) Combat is tight and feels damn good. There are two versions of story mode and full online and trophies along with arcade modes for all characters (of which there are 18.) Personally, I reckon this is the only beat 'em up you need on PS3 atm.