Fighting engine 3
Puzzle kombat 8
Chess kombat 5
konquest 2
overall 5
Reasons poor excuse for a fighting engine no depth no beta testing broken characters easy infinites broken combos. Konquest mode is nothing but following a green light and option side quests that ignore the mk storyline not to mention you really can't do anything. Puzzle kombat is fun and saves it from being too horrible.

Arcade 9
Puzzle kombat 9
Chess kombat 9
konquest 6
Characters: 8
Arenas: 10
I gave Arcade mode an 9 because theres not a lot of variety there and u only have to fight a little warriors until u get to the boss
Puzzle Kombat got only got an 9 cuz i didnt like the music
Chess: I dunno, i just gave it an 9
KOnquest: It got a 6 cuz it gets boring and those combos are really annoying to do
Characters; Got an 8 because it had awesome returning ones, but i didnt like a lot of the new ones. I would have rather seen others like Sonya, Kung Lao and Kitana
Arenas were awesome!
TOTAL: 85% B!

Arcade: 6
Why: Man a new low for MK when it comes to arcade. You only fight 8 people. Man what a waste of 24 characters. You don't even fight half of them.
Puzzle kombat : 7
Why: It can be fun, but not as fun as fighting part of Deception is. Also not the reason why I bought a fighting game.
Chess kombat 8
Why: Part fighting part thinking game again I don't believe games like this have a place in any MK game
konquest 5
Why:
Compared to MK: DA Konquest Deception's Konquest doesn't feel right . I wanted a more factual like MK: DA rather than non cannon ( most of MK: deception's Konquest is cannon) also. To me a GTA like game lik Deception Konquest doesn't fit well in the MK world.
Characters: 7
Why: Well Kira and Ashrah are the only new characters that I liked. The rest of them are borning in both design and story. I think the MK team could have done better. The new characters storyline other than Kira and Ashrah seem to basic and plain, and or their again have no style at all to there character.
Arenas: 7
Why: Not enough orginality. Too many returning levels from MK past. As well as lame looking ones as well such as Liu Kang's tomb, Caves,Dragon Mountain and the living forest have a dull look to them compared to Deception better levels such as Hell founddry, falling cliffs, slaughter house and Bettle Lair. Again I think it could have had better levels than the ones I thought where on the dull side.
Fighting 6
Why I loved MK: DA fighting it was fast...very fast when it came to hand to hand. Deception is very slow in terms of fighting. due in most part of the recovery attacks. Also the return of special moves have slowed down the fighting considerablity due to the slow movement. The run button is needed badly to close the gap between special move abusers. Overall just so slow for my tastes, but can be fun to work with diff fighting styles,to me not as fun as MK: DA.
Overall score 7.0
Overall score 7.0

4/10
Deception tried way too hard to please everyone by doing everything but unfortunately nothing it does is done particularly well. The fighting engine is still as shitty and buggy as ever. Konquest is a joke. Chess Kombat and Puzzle Kombat are shameless rip-offs of other games, and the Krypt is once again full of useless stuff.
If you don't care for useless fluff and sub-par non-fighting distractions combined with a bland and pitifully shallow fighting engine you'll find little here.
Here's hoping, that by some miracle, MK7 doesn't suck like the previous two.

4/10
Engine: 1/10
Graphics: 2/10
Everything else: 1/10

OK, rating on fun and everything, I'd say 8/10
Based on facts and the fighting engine 2/10
It just pisses me off. Not even gonna talk about it

Mk relies on two things. 1) Fun gameplay. 2) Story and atmosphere.
Gameplay is stuffed, not fun... 3/10
Story was whipped together overnight, and the characters and blood still have that cartoony taste to them. 3/10
3/10~

Yeah, I'd have to agree with this person here.
I'd score the different modes a bit differently, but overally, the game's not worthy of much more than a 5/10.
And I'd rate the overally attitude/fair play of the online Kommunity even lower.

Hmm, arcade has few characters to fight, and it is too easy! But again, this can be debated. At least you can get to the endings fast. 4/5
Puzzle kombat: never was a big fan of tetris. As a little separate game in the MK universe it is good. But don't focus on them too much 3/5
Chess kombat: almost BETTER THAN ARCHON! This is a realy big word if you knew Archon! Good uses of separate character types and a good reason for thinking! At least MKD is not just a simple kill-em-all fighting game anymore like MK1-4 was. 4/5
Konquest: a good idea executed badly. The storyline is a little messed up and leaves tons of cliffhangers. Do it again, but make it tie into the actual main story and be more sophisticated instead of doing sidequests 2.5/5
Engine: broken and slow, but still one of most unique fighting engines out there. Needs to be replaced if it becomes obsolete for MK7, or improve it quite a little. Depends on how fast MK7 is going to be engineered. 3/5
Characters: most newcomers are the best ever seen. Becouse they give the traditional oriental feeling back that was in MK1-2 and DA. No more new ninjas thank god, and more eastern fighters. Gameplay wise Hotaru, Dairou are as great as the classic Scorpion adn Sub-Zero. Kira and Ashrah are balanced compared to others and jade is despite her slow-ness devastating. Only Darrius and Liu Kang were bad ideas.
Storyline: considering the complexity of the MK saga 4/5. Explain those cliffhangers already and no more ressurections! the idea of Seudo and Chaosrealm was great, keep it up guys!

Konquest is boring, what weed were you people smoking for the last months?
I bought Deception three days ago and Konquest is so sweet I can't stop playing it. You know, I believe the reason why most of you hate konquest mode is because you can't beat the warriors to gain their abilities.
Deception kombat mode is another big story. best gameplay ever, So many animations and moves.
puzzle:4.8/5(because it's hard to beat)
kombat:5/5
krypt:5/5 (classic)
mk online:5/5 (I thought it was this page)lol
chess:5/5

Graphics: 7/10 Cartoonish style worked well
Gameplay: 2/10 Various gameplay problems, probably put together in 5 mins
Konquest: 5/10 Novelty values don't make up for the fact that it was average compared to extra modes played before on beat-em up games.
Puzzle + Chess: Too pointless to give a rating
Characters: 8/10 Returning characters are a lot better than crappy new ones.
Replay Value:-
Arcade: 3/10 lack of amount of CPU characters to play against.
Online mode: 7/10 Only due to the fact that no other ps2 3D beat-em up is online yet.
Online mode when everyone started cheating to keep loseless records: 4/10 really annoying

7/10

Actually I managed to unlock everything in konquest in 2 days. I had no problems beating any of the characters to get the items and I even beat the scorpion people complain so much about easily.
The 3 day review is a prime example why online and magazine reviews are not very good. Several of the other people giving honest opinions have had the game over a month and I admit the first 3 days I had it I thought the game was great at day 5 I started to play around in practice to come up with juggles and it's been downhill ever since.

WELL
judging by the popular vote, I was right.
Just so you know folks...I tried to tell him.
sigh...
sometimes you just have to give up and move on.
I have.

Arcade....9 -
Good Characters, Easy Gameplay and Good Storylines.
Konquest....10 -
The best part of the game. Like mission based games anyway so this was superb for me.
Puzzle Kombat....5 -
Good at first but gets boring after time.
Chess Kombat....6 -
Took a while to get used to playing it and knowing the rules....a good way of making money for the krypt.
Overall....9/10
Much better than Deadly Alliance, with the return of great characters such as Mileena, Jade, Kabal and Noob Saibot. Very Nice indeed

I am not big on numbers. So I will sum up MK D in one word.....
FUN

Arcade 10
Konquest 8
Puzzle 5
Chess 3
Arenas 10
Charater Design 9

yeah, werent you going to work for midway and give ideas or something like that. if you dont mind me asking, what exactly happened. if he refused your ideas for making mortal kombat a deeper, better fighting game then i too will give up on this series.

It's a shame, really.
MKD fighting engine sucks so I can't give it more than a 5/10. And that's being generous.

Arcade: 8
Puzzle kombat: 3
Chess kombat: 9
konquest: 5
Characters: 8
Arenas: 10
Arcade was okay, but seemed to be lacking some things. Plus there were too many glitches I thoight.
Puzzle Kombat was kinda boring in my opinion, I can see the protentional for this, but as it was done, I only gave it a 3
Chess kombat was really fun to play, and I really enjoyed it. It was interesting with the added effects of spells and the power squares.
The Konquest mode was 100% better than it was in MK:DA, but still lacking on some things. You couldn't really interact as much as I would have liked with the environment around you.
There was a nice assortment of characters, but they could have added a few more. What I would have loved to see would have been : Repitle, Sektor & Rain.
The Arenas was most enjoyable. I liked the interactivity with them. However, it wold have been better if it wasn't so easy to knock your oponient into the stage trap... it ended the match too fast and prevented you from doing a fatality.

What popular vote?

what he said.... oddly i have only played arcade twice.. beat the game w/ mileena and sindel..
konquest is bad.. i got in, got my charcaters and got out!!
but oddly online. i still play for atleast 2 hours a day since october.. if only the game play was good.. if only there were no glitch combos. if only each character were even w/ their own powers and weaknesses over others.. maybe mk7.. lets pray..
2 big things.. having sindel is a big plus.. missing kitana is a HUGE MINUS..
over all i giveit a 7/10.. mainly because of online play..

I think that those who give MKD more than 7/10 are really big fans of MK, but those who are bigger fans of other games "see it realistically". I don't think MKD is such a fantastic game, the crap grafics of Konquest, the numerous glitches and the crew photos ruin it(in koffins, just a few whole crew photos would be ok), other wise it would have been an avarage game, it doesn't totally suck, since it's is really addictive and fun but I think that once I unlock every koffin and ending I won't play it anymore. I'm comparing it to Tekken, since I still play Tekken 4 even though I've fully completed it.
Depends on my mood: 6/10 or (when I'm pissed off with it-->)4/10

Rate MKD?
In one word: Disapointing!!!
so long
Sam