Rated R for animated violence
Ah, Mortal Kombat... the game that put excessive video game violence into the mainstream. The first Mortal Kombat wasn't really that great, but it definitely rode on the phenomenal success of Street Fighter 2. What made it stood out, of course, were the fatalities. Yes, I still remember my first decapitation as Sub-Zero.
Perhaps as a way to ward off the Jack Thompson's of the world, Mortal Kombat 2 included Friendships and Babalities along with it's more elaborate Fatalities. That was fine and dandy as it gave the game a little more variety (it probably squeezed more money out of the gamers too, as they experimented more and more with the finishing moves). But I think they took it a little too far in Mortal Kombat 3 with its Animalities. Compared to the Fatalities they weren't really memorable. And sometimes, just sometimes, you'd have bugs like this:
This is a time when the phrase "WTF" is appropriate.
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