Mortal Kombat has always been a controversial title. Even from it's earliest games it had vast amounts of violence and gore that only improved visually as graphics improved. Ever since the first game, Fox News has been on it's trail. With the 9th Mortal Kombat being released, It's only natural that people would find the intense visuals to be controversial this time around, considering each game of theirs have been as well.
This game as well as its previous installments, features fatalities, which are brutal ways of completely demolishing your opponent. Ways include breaking bones, ripping off limbs, stabbing, crushing and any thing painful you can probably think of. The visuals when these fatalities occur are funny, embarrassing for the opponent and for the most part very gory. The 9th Game features x-ray attacks, in which when the attack lands, you are shown the damage in x-ray vision so you see what bones break and what organs are damaged. It's obvious to see how this game would be controversial. The gore is intense enough to give even the most grown men nightmares. The sheer violence of this game is astounding. Parents are complaining that this game desensitizes kids to violence, and that it does.
After seeing some of the things I've seen from watching the trailers for this game, no amount of gore really shocks me as much. But still, if you don't want your kids playing this game, then regulate what your kid plays as best you can. This game is indeed very disturbing and I don't think kids should be exposed to this. But even if they were exposed to this, besides a few nightmares, I don't think that this game could have any adverse effect on the child's brain besides thinking artificial violence is cool. And since artificial violence is cool, I don't really see aproblem.
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