Mortal Kombat 10: 10 Awesome Game Modes That Must Return

5. Motor Kombat

The Mortal Kombat experience may have gone a little off-track with MK: Deception's Puzzle Kombat, but MK: Armageddon managed to top it. Motor Kombat was an even more unexpected departure from the core game, popping a selection of our favorite kombatants into their little customized racing karts for a gory take on the Mario Kart concept. As with Puzzle Kombat, this is the sort of thing that is completely unessential but goes with the "everything but the kitchen sink" mentality we've come to love about Mortal Kombat. If you're going to ask why we need a Motor Kombat mode, then you're playing the wrong beat-em-up. MK has always been a flamboyant blend of darkness and light - visceral brutality interlaced with garish in-your-face slapstick. Watching these murderous thugs bouncing around in big-wheel cartoon racers, cheesy grins pasted on their bobble-head faces, it was entertaining enough almost to warrant a game on its own. As a sideline mode, Motor Kombat is a lovely way to take a break from the violence. As with Puzzle Kombat, it's unlikely that this one will be making an appearance in Mortal Kombat 10, but it would go some way to giving us the full package we're hoping for.