I wrote this review because I actually played and beat this game. First time I seen Mortal combat was in the arcade and there were usually a lot of people watching and playing the game. When I seen someone used a fatality for the first time I knew this game was too cool. I enjoy fighting games and that is why I gave this game an overall score of 9.

 For the graphics I gave this game a high score of a 9. Simply because of all the fatalities and secret blood codes. The characters are nicely drawn and colorful. As well the boards are all unique some having to do with the fatalities, very cool.
 
 The sound on this game is really cool. From the music to scorpions voice "get over here" and also sheng shun's voice at the end of the battle "finish him", the sounds of the game make it enjoyable to play. Did I mention the music is epic and to me fits the game nicely.

 Addictiveness gets a good score from me coming in at a 9. It is a high score but with all of the difficulty settings and figuring out the fatalities, someone can play for a while without getting bored. Not to mention the basic attacks and special attacks each character has and some secret stages and enemies this game has. Besides the one player mode the two player adds a lot more to the fun and addictiveness of the game.

 The story is okay with just a score of 7 from me. Don't get me wrong the story is good but to me it is fairly typical of good guys V's bad for the domination of earth or the outer realm, which is why the combat takes place. The story has been able to through out a movie and lots of sequel's to the game, I'm just hard to please with the story on most games.

 I only gave this games depth a 7 because all though it has a lot of attacks and endings, to me it is just a fighting game and the point is to beat all the characters and main boss,the end.

 On the difficulty of this game I rated it a high score of a 9. If you set the difficulty at easy it can still be somewhat of a challenge. With the endurance battles ( 1 V's 2 enemies) this game can get difficult, especially the harder difficulty settings.

 I will end this review by saying it is a good game to be the first in the series and although some of my scores were low it is one of my favorite games to play all time.