Indeed, each character in the first part of Killer Instinct has its advantages and disadvantages. The selection of characters for Killer Instinct was truly original, and all of them organically got accustomed to the game - this is one of those few fighting games where you absolutely like ALL characters! And these are not empty words. In general, smart, other words can not be found. Also pleasing are the pretentious cries of the commentator like 'Ultra Combooo!' or 'Co-co-combo Breaker!' - Soul singing right, honestly. Initial melodies in general are just a fairy tale: after the first acquaintance with the game you will want to hear them again and again, for their sake every time you want to revise the intro and delay the choice of the character. Sounds and music in the best traditions of Midway, with only one small nuance - the game realizes a lot of real songs, and for all the seeming stylistic disunity (from rap, pop music to disco and metal), they surprisingly organically fit into the atmosphere of the game and do not interfere, even on the contrary - they charge an additional drive during the match. Even after almost 14 years, Killer Instinct looks more than competitive against the background of other 2D fighting games, leaving behind most of the games that ever appeared on arcade machines and consoles - I think that's quite enough. If you want to imagine what it is, imagine a fight between Jax and Motaro in MK 3 in a semi-3D and with more sophisticated brutal beats, connected in long combos and conducted with the speed inherent only in 2D fighting games (for example, the same MK), and you get an approximate picture of what you can see and feel in this game. For all the beauty of the animation and the apparent volume of characters, KI retained all the 2D specifics. 2D fighting games have overtaken and continue to overtake the dynamism of their 3D brethren, and performed on the Killer Instinct silicone technology is no exception. Graphics and soundĪt a time when developers were still trying to translate games into 3D space, and 2D ones did not even think about dying, Killer Instinct was the most beautiful, and, at the same time, the most technologically advanced fighting game. Rare - the manufacturer of the best games of the genre 'adventure' for Nintendo, for one only magnificent Donkey Kong Country for SNES they can put a monument.

For those who for some reason do not know who they are, I will answer. Rare and Nintendo in the presentations also do not need. It is worth noting that during the development of KI, the creative potential of Midway was clearly at the peak of the perfection of creative thought, the most striking example being the excellent MK II, which developers could not outdo. It would not be very fair to consider Killer Instinct another killer of MK, for Midway itself participated in the creation of this game - the creators of the legendary Mortal Kombat series. managed to do something that many failed and that they themselves, unfortunately, most likely, will not be able to repeat. In an attempt to expand the game's possibilities, the developers managed to surprisingly organically reunite in the game elements that seemingly are not very compatible, but Rare and Co. The 'Assassin's Instinct' fully justified its name, but more on that later. Star composition of developers and publishers - Rare, Midway and Nintendo - has justified the most exacting expectations of fans of fighting games, showing the world a game that influenced the further development of the industry of 2D fighting games (now undeservedly forgotten by developers). Now we are talking about the most perfect, about the arcade version of the game, but much of what is said here applies to the version for SNES.

At that time, the game made a real sensation, quickly gained immense popularity among fans of fighting games around the world, resulting in the game also ported to SNES and GB. Initially, it was ported to a gaming machine based on Ultra 64. The first part of this amazing fighting game was released in the 94th year.

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