Artistic violence

Andrew Lu, 37, tech writer
I first played Mortal Kombat on a Super Nintendo set in 1996. I had never seen anything half as violent and it shaped how I looked at fighting games. A lot of them have violence just for the sake of it. But this had cool characters and things like fatalities, and there were so many secrets and little things that fans would go crazy about. But you can see the change when it moved from 2D to 3D, because it lost its oomph factor. Back in the day, it was better than any other combat game. But graphics have gotten so much better now that it’s like any other game. As for the movies, the first one was great, the second one was terrible, and the third one is a joke. It’s a movie made for people with an IQ of six.