There are hundreds of challenges each with different requirements such as no special moves allowed or only allowing a certain type of attack to harm your opponent

MK now have 2-on-2 matches like Marvel vs. Capcom, Challenge Tower and Fatality Training (so no more excuses for not finishing your opponent).

One can certainly pick up the controller and feel fairly deadly right from the get go, yet the game is continually challenging (providing you match an appropriate difficulty level with your skill).Hitting an opponent in this game is rewarding.

If your opponent does not counter attack, you will move back and can start a new assault

Some are normal enough, like just defeating your opponent, while others range from funny to frustrating

MK now have 2-on-2 matches like Marvel vs. Capcom, Challenge Tower and Fatality Training (so no more excuses for not finishing your opponent)

Fill up the second stage and you can use a "Breaker" to break an opponent's combo

The online mode could use some improvement (such as being able to see an opponent's connection strength and to decline matches if the connection is not good enough) but the competition has been capable

You will be forced to fight some frustratingly hard opponents and sometimes more than one at a time.

For the negative side, there is a glitch in the Training mode where, after learning the basics, you cannot defeat your opponent without dying - even if you kill him before he drains your health all the way

With Shao Kahn winning and defeating every opponent in the process, Raiden is forced to use a method of time travel to warn his past iteration about the dire future that awaits unless he can change it.

Despite the rivers of whiney tears cried in protest to MK vs DCU's T rating and lack of gore, the WB partnership was forged early on.