beginning this there’s only two
franchises that have the caliber to not
be checking out at this level
not one welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re pitting the two biggest
fighting game series against each other
Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat that’s
right that’s right who’s it gonna be
round one characters fight choosing the
right fighter can be important whether
you have trusted standbys or prefer an
improvisational approach The Mortal
Kombat universe is populated by
supernatural ninjas and cyborgs who all
dress exactly the same save for a color
swap or two but to be fair each does
have their own abilities and backstory
to make them unique you also have more
vanilla human characters like Sonya and
Johnny Kate you again – both an
ever-increasing roster of fun fighters
with special talents with the release of
every new game players are eager to take
new characters for a spin though when it
really comes down to it we’re all just
deciding between Sub Zero and scorpion
Street Fighter on the other hand goes
for a more contemporary feel with the
combatants representing different
nations taking part in an international
fighting tournament sort of like the
Olympics only with less sex the series
is also guilty of palette swap
characters namely in the form of Ryu and
Ken
but unlike Scorpion and sub-zero these
two have exactly the same mu set just
with different stats for each attack
then there’s two other characters with
similar moves the first being the
overpowered badass Akuma and Dan who
intentionally kind of sucks really
Capcom you had named him dan everyone
from highschool hotties to Brazilian
beef and then have benefited from his
awesome instruction seeing his Mortal
Kombat takes place across multiple
realms their franchise is given a little
more flexibility when it comes to
creative character designs ranging from
reptiles recent reptilian design to the
forearmed behemoth Goro sure street
fighter has Blancas but he can’t really
carry the whole team on this one candy
mama will be so proud Mortal Kombat wins
the first round winner
Mortal Kombat round 2 balanced gameplay
round fighting games are only good if
everyone is on a level playing field
if one playable character is untouchable
it can bring down the entire experience
characters are only as good as the
people who play them but every now and
then comes along a case where a
character seems a little less balanced
than the rest one good example of this
is cabal in Mortal Kombat 3 thanks to
his – attack and combos that could cause
75% damage a flawed that series
co-creator Ed Boon admitted had to be
toned down in later games
another is katana in Mortal Kombat 2
whose fan throw and traffic allowed for
some unintentionally cheap juggling
Street Fighter 2 on the other hand had
its ups and downs Championship Edition
which brought in the four boss
characters from the first edition was
notably unbalanced as the boss
characters were never meant to be
controlled by human players this was
later tweaked in the hyper fighting
edition a version that is considered to
be the most balanced of all the retro
Street Fighter games it’s only when one
comes across the dreaded Hadouken or
sonic boom spammer that the odds begin
to cheapen though some characters like
Zangief can counter these with his
spinning lariat it’s very easy to sit
back and coast on one repeated attack
but if you know how to handle your
character you can easily overcome this
sort of cheese
while it’s become easier for both
franchises to balance tweaking in more
recent titles thanks to online patches
this round goes to Street Fighter who
got the balance done right early on
winner Street Fighter
round three story
one-on-one fighting can be fun and
exciting but sometimes you need a little
extra narrative to carry you through the
game when you’ve got no one to play with
as you might expect from a game whose
characters are from the most part from
different supernatural worlds Mortal
Kombat story can be a bit convoluted
let’s see what we got here your world is
new destruction held once for every
generation between the realms of
Outworld and earth each Mortal Kombat
brings the greatest warriors from their
respective realms into a fight to the
death to determine the fate of each
round pouch after the tournament for
this generation is won by Liu Kang of
Earth the evil Shao Kahn about world
ends up being a pretty sore loser and
bends the rules to force a second
tournament on out world
Liu Kang still wins the second
tournament and I keep going but we’d be
here all day
street fighter is a little more grounded
in reality but not by much every game
has a different plot often having to
retcon previous events since the story
for each game is different for each
character in some cases being completely
unrelated to one another well Jimmy
looks like we finally made some friends
overall the combatants face off in a
no-holds-barred tournament to crown the
best fighter in the world there’s also a
criminal organization going by the name
of shadaloo headed by m.bison who plans
to use the tournament to somehow take
over the world
then there’s the power-hungry human
demon Akuma who’s out on a rampage and
then there’s Blanco who just wants to
find his mom yet all these storylines
hold very little connection to one
another what can I say
Japan saga grabbed so high because of
street fighters rather disjointed
storyline most gamers often just ignore
the story whereas the more centralized
and arguably more intriguing story
structure in the recent Mortal Kombat
games give the single-player more
replayability as players have more of an
incentive to try new characters as they
find out what’s going on my head hurts
just thinking about it
winner Mortal Kombat you make it too
easy round four levels backgrounds
in the early games each street fighter
stage was designed to represent each
character on the roster being designed
after their respective countries for
example you have chun-li’s stage on a
busy Chinese Street Balrog on the
streets of Las Vegas and Blanca on the
Amazon River while the more recent
installments no longer assigned one
unique stage to every character they
still offer a wide variety of vibrant
vistas and locales mortal combat stages
on the other hand are a bit less
consistent the first three games were
all set around a themed location based
on the overall story we mentioned
earlier just in different areas these
ranged from an exotic island to another
realm full of death and deadly
apparatuses to our own world devoid of
life but for moral combat 4 onwards the
series started to move into 3d and with
that much less interesting designs
thanks to limited technology at the time
Mortal Kombat deception did change
things up a bit by including dynamic
instant death stage traps but those were
hit or miss depending on who you ask
in terms of the music for each stage
streetfighter easily has the upper hand
thanks to catchy and memorable themes
that relate to each character or stage
very well
whereas Mortal Kombat’s themes have less
of an identity to them since you can mix
up which song goes with which stage and
it really wouldn’t make that much of a
difference
Street Fighter takes this round for the
perfect bonus winner Street Fighter 2
round five special moves in order to
stay fresh and fun fighting games need
to diversify their combat rosters by
adding interesting and unique new moves
for Street Fighter its most iconic
special move comes in the form of Ryu
and cans which is simple to pull off but
does little damage to more complex moves
like zangief’s spinning pile driver
which is more tricky to pull off but
does a great deal of damage
starting from super street fighter 2
turbo was the inclusion of super combos
that could be delivered once the gauge
at the bottom of the screen was filled
flowing off these devastated moves could
turn the tide of a battle portal combat
on the other hand takes a wider approach
to the way it handles special moves sub
zero’s iconic freezing ability and
scorpion spear for example do little
damage but leave their opponents stunned
allowing for easy execution of combos
characters like shang tsung can
transform into any fighter and quickly
change the flow of a battle while
special moves were more cumbersome to
pull off in the original games thanks to
weird combinations MK 9 made said
combinations much more streamlined to
match Street Fighter and included the
brutal X moves bringing them to an even
playing field but of course Mortal
Kombat has one last trick up its sleeve
that we all know as its most iconic
feature the incredibly brutal hit
disturbingly satisfying fatalities the
perfect way to humiliate your opponent
at the climax of a battle
Mortal Kombat wins fatality
well there you have it folks Mortal
Kombat wins this versus in the brutal
and stylish fashion we all know and love
thanks in no small part to learning from
the mistakes of its earliest entries far
better than its opponent what do you
think of our verdict
be sure to debate in the comments and
for more entertaining vs. battles be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com but
wait that’s not all mention this ad when
you apply and receive a psycho t-shirt
and a pair of tree trimming shears
absolutely free
franchises that have the caliber to not
be checking out at this level
not one welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re pitting the two biggest
fighting game series against each other
Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat that’s
right that’s right who’s it gonna be
round one characters fight choosing the
right fighter can be important whether
you have trusted standbys or prefer an
improvisational approach The Mortal
Kombat universe is populated by
supernatural ninjas and cyborgs who all
dress exactly the same save for a color
swap or two but to be fair each does
have their own abilities and backstory
to make them unique you also have more
vanilla human characters like Sonya and
Johnny Kate you again – both an
ever-increasing roster of fun fighters
with special talents with the release of
every new game players are eager to take
new characters for a spin though when it
really comes down to it we’re all just
deciding between Sub Zero and scorpion
Street Fighter on the other hand goes
for a more contemporary feel with the
combatants representing different
nations taking part in an international
fighting tournament sort of like the
Olympics only with less sex the series
is also guilty of palette swap
characters namely in the form of Ryu and
Ken
but unlike Scorpion and sub-zero these
two have exactly the same mu set just
with different stats for each attack
then there’s two other characters with
similar moves the first being the
overpowered badass Akuma and Dan who
intentionally kind of sucks really
Capcom you had named him dan everyone
from highschool hotties to Brazilian
beef and then have benefited from his
awesome instruction seeing his Mortal
Kombat takes place across multiple
realms their franchise is given a little
more flexibility when it comes to
creative character designs ranging from
reptiles recent reptilian design to the
forearmed behemoth Goro sure street
fighter has Blancas but he can’t really
carry the whole team on this one candy
mama will be so proud Mortal Kombat wins
the first round winner
Mortal Kombat round 2 balanced gameplay
round fighting games are only good if
everyone is on a level playing field
if one playable character is untouchable
it can bring down the entire experience
characters are only as good as the
people who play them but every now and
then comes along a case where a
character seems a little less balanced
than the rest one good example of this
is cabal in Mortal Kombat 3 thanks to
his – attack and combos that could cause
75% damage a flawed that series
co-creator Ed Boon admitted had to be
toned down in later games
another is katana in Mortal Kombat 2
whose fan throw and traffic allowed for
some unintentionally cheap juggling
Street Fighter 2 on the other hand had
its ups and downs Championship Edition
which brought in the four boss
characters from the first edition was
notably unbalanced as the boss
characters were never meant to be
controlled by human players this was
later tweaked in the hyper fighting
edition a version that is considered to
be the most balanced of all the retro
Street Fighter games it’s only when one
comes across the dreaded Hadouken or
sonic boom spammer that the odds begin
to cheapen though some characters like
Zangief can counter these with his
spinning lariat it’s very easy to sit
back and coast on one repeated attack
but if you know how to handle your
character you can easily overcome this
sort of cheese
while it’s become easier for both
franchises to balance tweaking in more
recent titles thanks to online patches
this round goes to Street Fighter who
got the balance done right early on
winner Street Fighter
round three story
one-on-one fighting can be fun and
exciting but sometimes you need a little
extra narrative to carry you through the
game when you’ve got no one to play with
as you might expect from a game whose
characters are from the most part from
different supernatural worlds Mortal
Kombat story can be a bit convoluted
let’s see what we got here your world is
new destruction held once for every
generation between the realms of
Outworld and earth each Mortal Kombat
brings the greatest warriors from their
respective realms into a fight to the
death to determine the fate of each
round pouch after the tournament for
this generation is won by Liu Kang of
Earth the evil Shao Kahn about world
ends up being a pretty sore loser and
bends the rules to force a second
tournament on out world
Liu Kang still wins the second
tournament and I keep going but we’d be
here all day
street fighter is a little more grounded
in reality but not by much every game
has a different plot often having to
retcon previous events since the story
for each game is different for each
character in some cases being completely
unrelated to one another well Jimmy
looks like we finally made some friends
overall the combatants face off in a
no-holds-barred tournament to crown the
best fighter in the world there’s also a
criminal organization going by the name
of shadaloo headed by m.bison who plans
to use the tournament to somehow take
over the world
then there’s the power-hungry human
demon Akuma who’s out on a rampage and
then there’s Blanco who just wants to
find his mom yet all these storylines
hold very little connection to one
another what can I say
Japan saga grabbed so high because of
street fighters rather disjointed
storyline most gamers often just ignore
the story whereas the more centralized
and arguably more intriguing story
structure in the recent Mortal Kombat
games give the single-player more
replayability as players have more of an
incentive to try new characters as they
find out what’s going on my head hurts
just thinking about it
winner Mortal Kombat you make it too
easy round four levels backgrounds
in the early games each street fighter
stage was designed to represent each
character on the roster being designed
after their respective countries for
example you have chun-li’s stage on a
busy Chinese Street Balrog on the
streets of Las Vegas and Blanca on the
Amazon River while the more recent
installments no longer assigned one
unique stage to every character they
still offer a wide variety of vibrant
vistas and locales mortal combat stages
on the other hand are a bit less
consistent the first three games were
all set around a themed location based
on the overall story we mentioned
earlier just in different areas these
ranged from an exotic island to another
realm full of death and deadly
apparatuses to our own world devoid of
life but for moral combat 4 onwards the
series started to move into 3d and with
that much less interesting designs
thanks to limited technology at the time
Mortal Kombat deception did change
things up a bit by including dynamic
instant death stage traps but those were
hit or miss depending on who you ask
in terms of the music for each stage
streetfighter easily has the upper hand
thanks to catchy and memorable themes
that relate to each character or stage
very well
whereas Mortal Kombat’s themes have less
of an identity to them since you can mix
up which song goes with which stage and
it really wouldn’t make that much of a
difference
Street Fighter takes this round for the
perfect bonus winner Street Fighter 2
round five special moves in order to
stay fresh and fun fighting games need
to diversify their combat rosters by
adding interesting and unique new moves
for Street Fighter its most iconic
special move comes in the form of Ryu
and cans which is simple to pull off but
does little damage to more complex moves
like zangief’s spinning pile driver
which is more tricky to pull off but
does a great deal of damage
starting from super street fighter 2
turbo was the inclusion of super combos
that could be delivered once the gauge
at the bottom of the screen was filled
flowing off these devastated moves could
turn the tide of a battle portal combat
on the other hand takes a wider approach
to the way it handles special moves sub
zero’s iconic freezing ability and
scorpion spear for example do little
damage but leave their opponents stunned
allowing for easy execution of combos
characters like shang tsung can
transform into any fighter and quickly
change the flow of a battle while
special moves were more cumbersome to
pull off in the original games thanks to
weird combinations MK 9 made said
combinations much more streamlined to
match Street Fighter and included the
brutal X moves bringing them to an even
playing field but of course Mortal
Kombat has one last trick up its sleeve
that we all know as its most iconic
feature the incredibly brutal hit
disturbingly satisfying fatalities the
perfect way to humiliate your opponent
at the climax of a battle
Mortal Kombat wins fatality
well there you have it folks Mortal
Kombat wins this versus in the brutal
and stylish fashion we all know and love
thanks in no small part to learning from
the mistakes of its earliest entries far
better than its opponent what do you
think of our verdict
be sure to debate in the comments and
for more entertaining vs. battles be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com but
wait that’s not all mention this ad when
you apply and receive a psycho t-shirt
and a pair of tree trimming shears
absolutely free
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