The critics panned the game, and the original creators of Mortal Kombat had so little involvement with Special Forces that they've washed their hands of the final result. The graphics are ugly, Jax is given obnoxious one-liners, and you're left with a boring action game that feels like a Metal Gear Solid title that had every ounce of fun surgically removed.

The problem is, the other aspects of the game aren't much better. But Special Forces isn't a game you want to play for the story, since there isn't much of one. Which is also kind of bizarre, since Jax has his metal arms here despite not getting them until after Mortal Kombat II. What's worse is that Special Forces is chronologically the first game in the series, meant to take place before even the first Mortal Kombat. Special Forces was supposed to focus on Jax and Sonya trying to capture Kano, but a rushed development led to Sonya being cut and Jax being the star. Mortal Kombat Mythologies was pretty awful years earlier, but we'll get to that in a moment. The series' attempt to veer into action games always had the potential to be terrible, as it already had been before Special Forces even hit shelves. It turns out that the worst Mortal Kombat game isn't even a fighting game at all.

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