Progressing through the main campaign levels up your fighter’s general stats and you can improve or augment certain abilities by paying with in-game currency (Koins and Souls) or adding in items you unlock during certain battles. Multiple item cards of the same type can be fused to create a more powerful version of that one item too.

Aside from taking you through the basic controls with the franchise’s most iconic warriors, you’ll only infrequently encounter named players, particularly in boss battles, which disappointingly dole out the only opportunity for Fatalities – a hallmark of the Mortal Kombat series.

Combat itself looks good, with fluid 3D graphics, nicely detailed character models and smooth animations for fighting moves and poses. Despite pulling off some impressive attacks on-screen, the controls for each character’s move set is distilled down to tapping and occasionally swiping for offensive plays, two fingers held on-screen to defend and a button that results in a quick time event to unleash a special attack.

Your team of three fighters can be switched out mid-battle giving you new moves to play with and your injured warriors time to recover before being called back into battle. As long as you’re the last man/woman standing, you win each fight and health is fully replenished between each round.

It’s a fun concept and getting to play with such iconic characters on your phone is a great offering in its own right, but overall Mortal Kombat X doesn’t offer enough of an experience to ensure you’ll want to defend Earthrealm on a daily basis. Not to mention in its current iteration you’ll encounter a few audio bugs as well as game types that are not yet active.

We’d like to see more Fatalities, more often, more easily accessible named players and more frequent item drops. The Test Your Luck and Test Your Might minigames are fun too, but all in all they have been adding a lot since release!

Overall this is a great game and for us Android users the game seems to be a popular one since it seems to run great on many devices. 

Worth the download..