Special Forces' five levels is NOTHING but fetching you around for shit. It gives you the idea that you're doing a great deal of work in order to get further, when in reality the game is dicking your around and making you feel like you're accomplishing more than you really are. What I refer to as "Fuse Box Syndrome" is the method of game progression that is solely reliant on the acquisition of key cards and power sources to open doors.
Two of the greatest pet peeves of mine in video games are: None of the attacks feel satisfying, and Jax's token artillery of long range weapons bring nothing new to the table. Mortal Kombat Special Forces challenges Fight Force 2 for being a game boring enough to make you doze off in traffic without even driving. Instead, it comes off vanilla as hell, uninspired, and incredibly boring. The control scheme follows the standard Mortal Kombat, Jax has high and low punches and kicks, the block, and a Turbo button, so in a 3D environment, you'd think it would work that much better. The camera stays locked in an almost overhead view, which might be more of a service, as it hides most of the game's lackadaisical scenery. Unlike MK Mythologies, Special Forces didn't try to emulate and repurpose the old Mortal Kombat fighting formula, instead opting for a third person action game. Ed Boon is reported to have not worked on Special Forces in any capacity. Sonya was supposed to be the main character, but in the end, Jax ended up as the lead, with Sonya not appearing in it at all, minimal cut scenes, tedious level design, and tone whiplash. The development of this game eventually led to a fallout and departure of series co-creator John Tobias and several other veteran staff members at Midway, leaving the rest of the plans for Special Forces on the cutting room floor. This pretty much doomed this mission statement, but there was still plans to release a second one, which ended up being a Special Forces game where you'd play as Sonya Blade and Jax in a battle against Kano and the Black Dragon gang. Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero has a charm to it, but ultimately sucked, due to sloppy, poorly implemented controls and an insane difficulty curve. It'll give the spotlight to everyone's favorite MK characters and flesh out aspects of their past and individual stories. Now this is something that, in theory, seemed like a good idea for the series. Looking for ways to maintain fan interest in the rapidly shifting field of fighting games (the series is more renown for its violence than gameplay), Mortal Kombat sought to branch out beyond tournament fighter and enrich the lore in action games. While it reached some Everest-level highs in the early 90's with its comic nook lore that blended mysticism with classic martial arts movies, it hit some embarrassing and awful lows toward the later half of the decade.
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