Mortal Kombat 4 Gold is quite possibly one of the most underrated installments to have emerged from the MK franchise. Mortal Kombat 4 Gold came out 25 years ago and was considered to be a modified version of the original MK4 game that appeared in arcade centers worldwide back in 1997. Mortal Kombat 4 Gold was a game that was released exclusively for Dreamcast and included bonus characters that were not featured in the PS1 or N64 versions. Mortal Kombat 4 Gold featured additional characters who were not featured in the arcade version of the game including Kitana, Mileena, Cyrax, Kung Lao along with Sektor. Mortal Kombat 4 Gold had a few extra stages that were not in the original version of the game with the in game mechanics remaining mostly the same. As violent and gory Mortal Kombat 4 Gold some of the endings within the game ended up being unintentionally comical with the voice acting vacillating between good and bad.

Mortal Kombat 4 was a 3D fighting game that got overshadowed for the most part due to the popularity of titles like Tekken 3, Soul Calibur along with Marvel vs Capcom. There are many people who would argue that the Mortal Kombat: Annihilation movie from ’97 was so bad that it hurt the popularity of the MK franchise. By the time the Mortal Kombat 4 Gold game came out the series was not nearly as popular compared to ’92-’95 when the first three games were released. Even though, its been 25 years since Mortal Kombat 4 Gold was released its still a very fun game to play and its quite possibly one of Midway’s better entries in relation to the MK series.