Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is a fighting game in the Mortal Kombat series, released in arcades in 1995. It is an update of Mortal Kombat 3 and was later updated into Mortal Kombat Trilogy. Midway has also announced an online version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the Xbox Live Arcade on the Xbox 360 due for release sometime in 2006.New to UMK3Characters
UMK3 has all of the Mortal Kombat 3 fighters plus some of the characters that were left out from Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II:
- Kitana
- Scorpion
- Reptile
- Jade
- Smoke formerly only playable via Ultimate Kombat Kode in MK3, he's now a normal character.
The following characters were hidden unlockable characters:
- Mileena: Unlocked by Ultimate Kombat Kode (2-2-2-6-4-2-2-2-6-4)
- Classic Sub-Zero: Unlocked by Ultimate Kombat Kode (8-1-8-3-5-8-1-8-3-5)
- Ermac: Unlocked by Ultimate Kombat Kode (1-2-3-4-4-4-4-3-2-1), he was rumored to be a glitched red ninja from the original Mortal Kombat game. He is now a new playable character.
- Human Smoke: Unlocked by holding Back + HP + HK + BLOCK + RUN after choosing Robot Smoke, he is basically a clone of Scorpion, with some of Ermac's aerial combos.
Hidden opponents:
- Noob Saibot: Although he was featured in the original MK3, he is no longer the palette swap of Kano but once again of a ninja. Like before, he is fought via Kombat Kode.
- Rain: Featured in the games opening montage, he is a fake hidden character that is not found in this game. He was obviously intended as a means of generating interest in the game and to keep quarters flowing into the machine as die-hard fans tried to find or unlock him. In the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo version he was, however, playable. He also becomes playable in Mortal Kombat Trilogy. A clue to his identity is presented in the fact that the font used in his name is different from all the other characters.
Kombat zones
Including all of the original backgrounds from the Mortal Kombat 3, minus The Bank and the Hidden Portal (which were removed), UMK3 includes several new backgrounds:
- Scorpion's Lair (Hell): This stage also contains a new pit fatality, where the opponent is uppercutted into a river of lava.
- Jade's Desert
- Kahn's Kave
- River Kombat
- Scislac Busorez (Blue Portal): A combination of the background from the UMK3 "Choose Your Destiny" screen, The Pit 3 bridge, and the mountains and bridge from The Pit II in MKII. This stage is added to the permanent level cycle when Mileena, Classic Sub-Zero, and Ermac are unlocked.
- Noob's Dorfen: An obvious knock-off of The Balcony stage, can now be played using a Kombat Kode unlike having to fight Noob to see it like in MK3.
Other mentionable changes
- New 2-on-2 kombat mode (similar to an Endurance match but with humans on both sides).
- New 8 player tournament kombat.
- "Chain combos", commonly called "dial-a-combos", can now be started by using a jump punch or a hop kick.
- Stryker now has a "rapid fire gun" special move added to his arsenal. His grenades have been given a delay which greatly tones down his ability to bombard foes.
- Kano now has a diagonal cannonball among his special moves.
- Liu Kang and Sonya have new knock-up dial-a-combos.
- A "toned down" Kabal, who lost a few cheap combos.
- A "toned down" Sub-Zero, who can no longer create an ice clone next to the opponent to freeze him on the spot. If he tries, the statue will not form.
- Sonya's MK3 Friendship, which had her waving her arms back-and-forth in a silly manner, is removed. Now she simply does her victory pose and a row of flowers grow out of the ground.
- Improved CPU opponent AI.
- Shao Kahn's Lost Treasures are added to when you beat the game.
- The "Select Your Fighter" screen no longer states which Kombat Zone is going to be used during the match.
- The original red portal background used for the "Choose Your Destiny" screen is now replaced with a blue portal.
- The character endings are only accompanied by text and your character's versus screen picture.
- The same applies to the character bios during the attract mode. However, the only bios featured are for Kitana, Jade, Scorpion, and Reptile; the ninja characters who weren't featured in the original MK3 and don't have to be unlocked via Ultimate Kombat Kode in this game. The full body artwork from MK3 of each character is completely removed and only features these four ninjas in their verses screen pictures plus text on a background of the battleplan/portal. This "cheap solution" for the characters to save space on artwork is also used in Mortal Kombat Trilogy, although there are bios for most of the characters in that game.
- The storyline pictures and accompanying text have been removed (beginning with "These are the words of Raiden" and explaining the plan to conquer Earth and the Tournament warriors' struggle).
- An extra "Master" difficulty is added to the "Choose Your Destiny" screen.
- "Endurance Matches" return since last being featured in the first Mortal Kombat. Some matches have you face as many as three opponents in a given round.
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