Talk:Mortal Kombat/GA1

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Reviewer: ChrisGualtieri (talk · contribs) 16:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm gonna be reviewing this. I've already glanced over the material yesterday and found you were updating the controversy section, give me a bit of time to do this one. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 16:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Review

Gameplay section seems fine, just a few awkward wordings to deal with.

"Midway would keep their single styled fighting moves with four attack buttons which were a different array of punches and kicks and block until they changed this in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance by differentiating characters normal moves and even giving them multiple fighting styles." - Awkward sentence. It says too much and confuses the reader. I'd split into two sentences.

"Most of the fighting styles featured are based on real martial arts, though a few of them are not." Prose again seems a bit weird, not too major, but for emphasis "While most of the styles used are based on real martial arts, some are entirely fictitious."

Development section needs some inline citations.

"Ed Boon stated for six out of the eight months while they were in production of Mortal Kombat, "nobody could come up with a name nobody didn't hate."" - Direct quote needs inline source.

" Some of the names suggested were "Kumite", "Dragon Attack", "Death Blow", and even at one point, "Fatality". Someone had written down "combat" on the drawing board for the names in Ed Boon's office and someone wrote a K over the C, according to Ed Boon, "just to be kind of weird." - Again, direct quote needs inline cite.

"More so than other fighting games at the time, Mortal Kombat was famous for re-coloring certain sprites to appear as different characters." - Could be polished up a little.

"The Sega Mega Drive/Genesis versions had some unique eggs: in Mortal Kombat, a head shot of the President of Probe Software, Fergus McGovern, flew in front of the moon in the Pit stage, while in Mortal Kombat II, Raiden could perform a "Fergality" on the Armory stage." Cite required for this please.

"One example is "Toasty", which found its way into the game in the form of a small image of sound designer Dan Forden, who would appear in the corner of the screen during gameplay (after performing an uppercut) and yell the word "Toasty". - Easy fix, just pull it from the Gamestop article. Also, the Gamespot page is white text on white background, not your problem, but is odd. Ref 32 just needs to be mirrored over to it.

" In 1994, Malibu Comics launched an official MK comic book series, spawning two six-issue series ("Blood and Thunder" and "Battlewave"), along with several miniseries, and one-shot character issues, until its publication ended in August 1995. Two more comics were also made for Mortal Kombat 4 and the DC Universe crossover game." - Both could use a source.

"The franchise sparked two television series, the 1996 cartoon series Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm and the 1998-1999 live-action series Mortal Kombat: Konquest. Neither series ran for more than one season due to budget constraints." - Again sources would be nice here.

"An animated prequel to the first movie, titled Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins, was released straight to home video in 1995. The stage show Mortal Kombat: Live Tour was also launched at the end of 1995. The tour expanded to 1996, and featured Mortal Kombat characters in a theatrical display on stage." - And here.

Other then that it is very well sourced.

The Controversy section when I first viewed it was a single liner, but that has been expanded somewhat. Could this please be expanded a bit?

Technical notes.

John Vogel points right back to Mortal Kombat. Its not a major concern.

Ref 76. [1] is dead. http://bloody-disgusting.com/ links don't seem to be reliable. A better source would be nice. Ref 135 [2] is dead. So's #14 [3] and #67 [4]. Lastly, ref #6 [5] redirects to the newindianexpress site. Cannot view content.

Everything else seems fine and passable. Putting it on hold to address those issues. Overall, very nice broad and detailed view of the series. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 15:42, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The content from the last reference or the beginning of the paragraph is presumably sourced by the reference in the end. GameSpot is always losing the backgrounds for their old pages before they go 404 completely, it's normal for them. --Niemti (talk) 17:18, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How about now? I did also some more edits, including expanding and rewriting the development. --Niemti (talk) 18:23, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The www.gametrailers.com ones are connection time out... and you sure you cannot get a replacement for the broken Guinness one? The article is definitely getting better, but a broken link to a review is really small and I doubt I can fail over that. Its just that according to the records its been dead for years. Time for a replacement I think. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 01:21, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I just expanded/updated the article a lot again, but I'm basically done (with MKII too). --Niemti (talk) 19:12, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Passed. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 23:52, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]