Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Hints

Become the champion in any single player tournament.

This achievement requires you to play through a single player tournament against the CPU. There are three difficulty levels, which differ in terms of the total number of enemies that youll have to beat. Clearly, the Novice difficulty level will be the fastest because it has the fewest levels. Youll first have to face five random opponents, then comes the Survival Round, which requires you to beat two opponents back-to-back in every round. The last two levels of the tournament will always be Motaro and Shao Kahn. For the first six matches, simply use whichever character youre most comfortable with. The better you are at special moves and pulling off combos, the faster youll deal damage. Blocking can also help you survive long enough to pull off another set of moves. Keep in mind that the computer will adjust to your playing style and begin to counter a move if you use it over and over again, so change up your attacks rather than spamming a single move repeatedly.

Motaro can be incredibly frustrating because projectile weapons - fire bolts, ice, spears, nets, etc. - dont affect him. Youll have to actually beat him hand-to-hand. If he gets close to you, he can use a tail swipe that breaks through your blocking. Additionally, he has a fireball projectile and a grab attack that can both take off huge amounts of health. There are a number of different tricks that people have suggested to take him down. One strategy, suggested by Ninegauger, is to use Sheeva and simply jump and use the X, X, X combo over and over again. This seems to interrupt his attacks and knock him back for a second. aPerfektFIaw also suggests jumping and using high kick (Y) while mixing in combos when hes stunned. J2 Da R recommends staying ducked down and uppercutting (X) him as soon as he gets close to you. The timing is critical because staying down too long will let him tail swipe you and uppercutting too quickly will miss him and just set you up to get hit with his grab attack. Finally, if youre skilled, you could also just run in after one of his attacks and lay down a quick combo.

Once youve beaten Motaro, you finally meet Shao Kahn. He has a variety of powerful attacks a shoulder charge that knocks you back, a sledgehammer blow when he gets in close, a green energy projectile, a simple kick, and a rising uppercut. There are two common strategies that multiple people have suggested. The first is to simply wait for his rising uppercut. If youre ducked down, hell rise over you, allowing you to uppercut him instead. This is risky because it depends entirely on the frequency of this particular attack. If he doesnt use it very often, then youre out of luck. Heeby suggested the approach that I used and it works brilliantly. Just use Smoke or Scorpion and hit Shao Kahn with the trident or the spear (Back, Back, A) then hit him with an uppercut. Use the trident or spear again before he can get up and repeat. I was able to get one flawless victory and he only hit me once on the second one. This is an especially nice strategy because the spear will interrupt his shoulder charge, so the only attack that you need to worry about initially is the projectile. The achievement unlocks as soon as he blows up.

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Complete a Fatality during an Xbox Live Versus game.

Once youve beaten your opponent, there will be a short period of time where they just stand there swaying before they fall over and die. You have these few seconds to complete the combination of moves necessary to perform a fatality maneuver. Each character has their own unique set of fatalities and youll know youve performed it properly when you see the animation of your foes grisly demise.

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Complete a Flawless victory against the CPU (1 round).

A Flawless victory simply means that you take no damage over the course of the round. Keep in mind that you do take a small amount of damage when you block, so your strategy should be to avoid getting hit at all. While you can do this with whatever character youre most comfortable with, I recommend Smoke, Scorpion, or Sub-Zero. All three of these characters have moves that will allow you to immobilize your opponent repeatedly, letting you deal them damage without any risk of being hit.

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Complete a Babality against the CPU.

A Babality is similar to the Fatality in the sense that its a unique finishing move for each character. It is a little bit more difficult because you cant use the block function during the match in which you wish to use the Babality. You also have to accomplish this particular achievement against a computer opponent, not an online foe.

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Complete a Friendship during an Xbox Live Versus game.

Friendship is another finishing move, you cant use block during the round if you want to pull one off. This achievement requires you to perform one on an online opponent.

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Complete a 5 hit combo against the CPU.

This is similar to Double Time, but longer. I found this easiest to accomplish with Scorpion:

Back, Back, A, Y, Y, B, B.

The first three moves activate the spear, so you have to pause for moment to let the enemy get pulled in close to you before you rapidly press the last four buttons to complete the combo.

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Beat the hidden character, Noob Saibot while playing the CPU.

Noob Saibot is accessible after youve won a Mortal Kombat tournament. Youll have the opportunity to choose your reward at the end of the final match. Choosing the fourth option from the left - it looks like a backwards "3" - will open the match with Noob Saibot. Be aware that, should you lose, you will not have the opportunity to continue the match and try again. Instead, youll have to beat another entire tournament to get to him again. Fortunately, a loophole and a glitch dramatically simplify this achievement.

The loophole, discovered by mach II, is that you dont have to beat the single-player tournament every time that you want to fight Noob Saibot. If you have a second controller, you can simply set up an eight-player tournament with the two controllers and proceed through the tournament fighting against yourself. After a few minutes, youll win the tournament and be able to select the fight with Noob Saibot as your reward.

If you try to beat Noob Saibot using conventional strategies and techniques, you may find him to be quite frustrating. Hes difficult to see and has a series of very powerful moves and counters. Unfortunately for him, DisturbedDan discovered the following glitch. If you simply press 'A' as fast as you can, Noob will get stuck in an animation glitch, allowing you to kill him in a few seconds and preventing you from taking any damage. Many people have reported being able to get back-to-back Flawless victories using this technique.

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