
Online interaction: Online play with chat can create unpredictable conversations. Mortal Kombat fans can pick up Armageddon for $39.95, or they may opt for the Premium Edition ($49.95), which includes a playable of the original Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, more than 60 minutes of bonus DVD video content, a collectible metal case (with four unique box fronts in total), and an animation cell cover art autographed by franchise co–creator Ed Boon. A PlayStation Portable Port was released in 2006, renamed Mortal Kombat: Unchained, which included new characters.

A Nintendo GameCube version was published in January 2005. Deception was developed and published by Midway for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in October 2004. Also, while this game's graphics look OK (better on the Xbox than the PlayStation 2), it doesn't compare to fighting games on the Xbox 360 such as Tecmo's Dead or Alive 4. Mortal Kombat: Deception is the sixth installment in the Mortal Kombat series.

Armageddon doesn't evolve the genre much, but just gives the player a lot more of the same stuff, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Midway has expanded a few of its game modes aside from the single-player game (against the game's artificial intelligence) and a two-player mode (on the same television), Armageddon also offers a deeper Konquest game (a story-based adventure) and expanded online play for head-to-head matches over the Internet - with faster response times than found in 2004's Mortal Kombat: Deception.
