Mortal kombat gold

The gameplay is almost completely identical to Mortal Kombat 4 . The main feature of Mortal Kombat Gold is the ability to select weapons for the fighter on the character selection screen. Some weapons also appeared in the next games in the series. All arenas in Mortal Kombat Gold are detailed, and new arenas have been added ^[2] .

The plot of Mortal Kombat Gold repeats, and in some places even rewrites and complements the plot of Mortal Kombat 4 . This game also begins with Ryden's introductory monologue ^[3] .

Characters

Mortal Kombat Gold contains the same list of characters from Mortal Kombat 4 , which includes:

• Sonya Blade
• Jax
• Liu Kang
• Johnny cage
• Sub Zero
• Reiko
• Jarek
• Ryden
• Tanya
• Scorpio
• Kai
• Reptile
• Shinnock
• Fujin
• Kuan chi

New characters

Also added are characters from previous Mortal Kombat games that were not in the original version of Mortal Kombat 4 .

• Cyrax - found in the desert by the Lin Quay clan and sent on a mission to kill Sub-Zero (this biography is not a canon).
• Milina is the evil sister of Kitana, who dreams of seizing power in Eden and becoming her ruler instead of Kitana.
• Kitana , Princess of Eden, goes to the tournament to regain the Edenian throne.
• Kun Lao - a Shaolin monk, a descendant of the Great Kun Lao, is looking for Goro to avenge the death of his ancestor.
• Baraka - one of the Tarkatan warriors, Kuan Chi was sent to the tournament for reprisal against all competitors of the sorcerer.

Secret characters

• Mit
• Noob Saibot
• Goro (sub-boss)
• Sector

The official Mortal Kombat Gold guide contains other character biographies provided to the publisher before the release of the game. As a result, there were contradictions in the storyline, which were later corrected:

• Baraka died at the hands of Kun Lao and was reborn again, his body is fastened with braces, as evidenced by scars. This is not written about in the Mortal Kombat Gold biography in Baraka’s biography, although in the Mortal Kombat: Deception Crypt photo of Baraka and Milina’s renders confirm that everything was as described in the biography of the official guide.
• Kitana is the only surviving resident of the world of Edenia after the invasion of Shinnok, who killed her entire family, including Sindel .
• Milina comes out of hiding during the Shinnock invasion and uses it as a chance to take revenge on Kitana.
• Cyrax was rescued by agents of the Special Forces, Jax and Sonya, and reprogrammed to fight Shinnock. But according to Syrax’s biography in the Mortal Kombat Gold game , he was saved from his captivity in the desert by the Lin Quay clan, who again sent him to kill Sub-Ziro ^[4] , and Sector ^{[5] was} sent to observe the actions of Cyrax. Later, in the Conquest mode of the Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, it was confirmed that the version in which Cyrax was rescued from the desert by the Special Forces ^[6] was still true, thus making the Sector’s plot in Mortal Kombat Gold useless.

On August 12, 1998, Dave Michicic announced in an IRC chat that Eurocom developers will make a special version of Mortal Kombat 4 for the new Sega console ^[7] . On December 8, 1998, Midway officially announced a list of future releases for Dreamcast, and the concept of the upcoming fighting game was kept secret, it was only known that the game would become a hybrid of Mortal Kombat 4 , including also new characters ^[8] . In 1999, it was already known that Midway hired Eurocom to develop the Mortal Kombat series fighting game for Dreamcast, when the president of Sega of America, Bernie Stolar, announced this in his speech at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Jose : “Already, more than 100 companies around the world are developing games for this system. At launch, look for Mortal Kombat 5 and Ready to Rumble from Midway, Castlevania from Konami, PowerStone from Capcom and Soul Calibur from Namco ” ^[9] .

On April 16, 1999, the portable version of Mortal Kombat 4 for Dreamcast was officially named Mortal Kombat Gold , the report also contained information about the features of this game ^[10] . Screenshots with a new character named Belokk were published in the Game Informer magazine, but this character did not make it to the final version, as Eurocom did not manage to complete its development ^{[11] [12]} .

Versions

Two editions of Mortal Kombat Gold were released with an interval of about one month.

• Version 1.0. Golden disk. The first edition is replete with errors, graphic crashes were accompanied by crashes of the game, and progress could not be saved.
• Version 2.0 Red disc with a green sticker “HOT! NEW! ”On the cover of the manual. The second edition, fixed, fixes the main problems of the previous version, and support for Visual Memory has been added, so that the opportunity has remained.

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Mortal Kombat Gold did not receive high marks for the graphics from the gaming press, although the character models were at the level of the arcade version of Mortal Kombat 4 . The weapon system was noted as "empty and uninteresting."

• Joe Cain. Mortal Kombat Gold: Prima's Official Strategy Guide. - Prima Games, 1999 .-- 96 p. - ISBN 0-7615-2329-4 . , ISBN 978-0-7615-2329-1 .

• The official game page (English) on the Eurocom website
• Mortal Kombat Gold (English) on the official Mortal Kombat 4 website in the Internet Archive
• Mortal Kombat Gold on the Mortal Kombat Empire website
• Mortal Kombat Gold on The Mortal Kombat Wiki