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Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Review

Review

Oct 30, 2025

When Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection was announced, I was excited. It had been over a decade since the last time these games saw the light of day with the release of Mortal Kombat HD Kollection which I reviewed back in 2011, but those were problematic releases plagued with online latency, input delay, and poor sound emulation. This new collection was going to be done by Digital Eclipse who had just come off the fantastic Atari 50 and The Making of Karateka, both collections which I enjoyed and felt set a high bar as definitive collections for those respective set of games. This new collection includes the staples which have been previously released– Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the Arcade. But goes beyond previous collections by going deeper into the library and also includes hours of new documentary footage. There is a solid foundation here with the essential games that you would expect, and emulated at a much higher quality than previous releases. However, barebone launch features and missed opportunities hold it back compared to modern collections like Capcom Fighting Collection 2.