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                           Mortal Kombat 3 FAQ v1.0 (George)
                           John George    Editor/Compiler
                           E-mail to floyd@ripco.com

This file is Copyright (c) 1994, John George.
All rights reserved.

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Welcome back to the MK 3 FAQ (George)
MANY more moves and MUCH better descriptions will be coming in the next few
days, I just wanted to get this out to you guys as quickly as possible.

There should be alot more by Thursday morning.....

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% NEW STUFF OVERVIEW %  Things that are brand new to this update!
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Better character descriptions
Stage descriptions
More moves
Some more game play info
Rumors section added

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% GAME PLAY %  How does the game play in general.
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The game plays alot like MKII but there is now one more button!!  They've
added a RUN button.  So far I don't know of any special moves that directly
involve the RUN button.  Each player has the normal MK energy bar, it's now
blue and turns red as you take damage.  Under the energy bar you also have a
little green bar showing how much RUN energy you have left, however this
quickly regenerates as soon as you stop running.

Also, after you each have chosen your characters, while the game is on the VS
screen, there are six little boxes at the bottom.  Each player controls 3
boxes.  By pressing LP,Block,or LK you cycle thru pictures in each box. Not
sure what this all means yet but here are a few of the pictures that you can
get: MK, lighting bolt, peace symbol, picture of Raiden, skull.  I'll have
more on these in the next FAQ.

The game now displays info when you get a combo.  It displays the info
like Primal Rage.

  4 Hit Combo
  35 % Damage

I've seen a 7/42% and a 5/49% combo already. Air juggles seem a little
easier to do in MK3.

Standard MK style notation will be used in this FAQ.  

F   = Forward
B   = Back
U   = Up
D   = Down
HCF = Half Circle Forward    (B,D,F)
HCB = Half Circle Back       (F,D,B)
QCF = Quarter Circle Forward (D,F)
QCB = Quarter Circle Back    (D,B)  
Blk = Block
RUN = Run

?   = I've seen the move but don't yet know how to do it.

All characters still have the standard uppercut, punchs, kicks, jump
kicks, etc.

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% CHARACTERS %  Their descriptions, moves, fatalities etc.
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There are now 14 (so far) playable characters in MK3.  The player select
screen is laid out in a 5 across / 3 down format, making for 15 possible
squares.  But the character in the center square does not appear to be
playable so far.

Random character selection is the same as MK II, Up and Start.

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* Shindel *
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Description: Shindel is Shao Kahn's Queen.  She is played by Lia Montelongo.
             She is scantily clad in purple.  She has long, flowing white
             hair with a black stripe down the back.  Shao Kahn's Queen was
             killed in the Earth Realm long ago. She was reincarnated when
             Kahn took over the Earth Realm.

Known Moves: Yell (holds victim)               F,F,F,HP
             Float                             B,B,B,HK
             Diagonal Down Fireball            HCF,LK

Fatalities:

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* Sheeva *
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Description: Looks like Goro's daughter.  She has four arms and wears a
             red outfit. Really nasty looking face.

Known Moves: Teleport Stomp                    D,U
             Throw Fireball                    QCF,HP

Fatalities:

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* Cyrax *
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Description: Gold colored Robo-Ninja played by Sal DiVita.
             He wears full body armor and has a predator-like helmet.

Known Moves: Exploding Teleport                F,F,Blk
             Throw Green Net                   B,B,B,LK

Fatalities:  (According to Ed Boon..) Cyrax has a great fatality. He stands
             in front of you and all this machinery comes out of his chest
             and just crushes you.

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* Kabal *
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Description: Wears a mask and a gold colored outfit. Fights with what look
             kinda like big crowbars. Played by Richard Divizio.

Known Moves: Purple Fireball                   B,B,HP
             Tornado Spin                      B,F,LK

Fatalities:

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* Liu Kang *
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Description: Now has long hair. Wears red pants. Played by ?

Known Moves: High Fireball                     F,F,HP
             Low Fireball                      F,F,LP
             Flying Kick                       F,F,HK
             Gobble Kick                       Hold LK 3 seconds

Fatalities:

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* Shang Tsung *
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Description: Longer black hair and eye makeup, goatee, but no beanie
             Played by a new actor named John Turk.

Known Moves: Thrown Skulls                     B,B,B,LP
             Fire Eruption                     F,F,B,LK

Morphs:      ? I've seen Sub Zero

Fatalities:

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* Jax *
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Description: Jax now wears purple pants and has metallic (bionic) arms.
             Played by the same actor from MK2, John Parrish.

Known Moves: Double Fireball                   F,F,B,B,HP
             Gotcha Grab Punch                 ?
             Gotcha Grab Throw                 ?
             Ground Slam                       ?

Fatalities:

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* Sub Zero *
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Description: Much different looking. No mask and now wears more of a blue
             suspender type outfit.  Played by John Turk.
             Ed Boon comments: "There's a reason why he's no longer wearing
             a mask, and it's connected his relationship with one of the
             new characters, the Cyber-Ninja." (Cyrax?)

Known Moves: Ice Shower                        QCF,HP
             Ice Clone                         QCB,LP
             Slide                             ?

Fatalities:

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* Sonya *
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Description: Blonde hair, green outfit quite similar to the old one MK1.
             She wears green, black, and white spandex.
             Played by Kerri Hoskins, the Playboy model who played a
             cheerleader in NBA JAM and starred in Revolution X.

Known Moves: Energy Rings                      QCF,LP
             Leg Throw                         ?
             Square Wave Jump                  ?
             Upward Bicycle Kick               B,B,B,LK

Fatalities:

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* Kano *
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Description: Kano's new costume is a mix of red and black.
             He's got a metal belt and sash.
             Played by Richard Divizio, the same actor who played Kano in
             the original MK.

Known Moves: Flying Roll                       Hold LK 3 seconds
             Knife Throw                       QCB,HP
             Knife Uppercut                    QCF,HP

Fatalities:  Rips their skeleton out thru their mouth. ?

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* Stryker *
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Description: SWAT team sorta guy, wears a black cap worn backwards and a
             red outfit. Fights with a baton and throws grenades.

Known Moves: Baton Throw                       F,F,HK
             Grenade                           HCB,HP

Fatalities:

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* Sektor *
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Description: Red colored robot guy.

Known Moves: Heat Seeker Missle                HCB,HP
             Straight Missle                   F,F,LP
             Teleport

Fatalities:

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* Nightwolf *
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Description: Native American guy.  Played by Sal DiVita.
             He's a very nontraditional Indian.
             He's very modern, his costume is very cool.

Known Moves: Shoot Arrow                       HCB,LP
             Hachet Uppercut                   HCF,HP
             Green Shield                      F,F,F,HK

Fatalities:

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* Kung Lao *
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Description: His costume is quite similar to the old one, but his vest is
             more like wide gold suspenders. Played by Anthony Marquez he's
             the same one who played him in MK2.

Known Moves: Hat Throw                         B,F,LP
             Teleport                          D,U
             Diagonal Down Kick                D,HK in the air

Fatalities:

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% STAGES %
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Better descriptions of the stages will be added in the next few days.

Soul Chamber: This looks similar to the old Portal stage.  It has statues
              of the floating monk dudes from MKII.  There is a large
              statue of an open monster mouth with greenish wispy smoke
              curling up in it.  The smoke looks like there are "ghosts"
              in it.

Boonyard: A graveyard with a bunch of tombstones.
          Four of the stones have some interesting names......

          Boon       Tobias      Beran     Mikicic
          3/22/64    8/24/69     8/29/67   8/6/69
          4/1/95     4/1/95      4/1/95    4/1/95

          April Fools? :)

Tobias Tower: This is a bell tower, you can see out the windows to the
              city.

The Pit 3: A bridge with low spike walls. Floating green lamps in the
           background.

The Subway: You're down on the subway tracks in the depot.  There is a
            sign on the back wall that says:   <--  Boon  Tobias -->
                                                    300N   600E

            The overhead lights are flickering on and off. And another
            neat thing here... you can uppercut and the other guy and he
            gets smashed up into another level and you follow!
               
The Bank: Red Carpet on the floor, you can see out the windows.

Rooftop: Cityscape in the with a large tower in the very back with red
         swirling gases circling the top. Is this Tobias Tower?

Beran Balcony: Green glowing pit off in the background.  Larges statues to
               the far right & left.

Goskie Bridge: Cityscape in the back. Newspapers and other litter blowing
               in the wind.... the windy city?

Mikicich Temple: Fighting in a church?  There is a large stained glass
                 window in the back with the MK Dragon Logo in it.  And
                 the red cloth draped over the altar has a gold MK Dragon
                 Logo on it too.


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% Credits %  Who contributed what.
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John George..................................... floyd@ripco.com
Brian Smolik.................................... floyd@ripco.com
Mike Kokal...................................... mjk@paragonind.com
Angelo Llanes Cruz..(moves)..................... cruz@dcl-nxt15.cso.uiuc.edu
Rory Groves..(character descriptions)........... Rory.Groves@tcl.mmbbs.com
 
Mortal Kombat, MK3, all character names etc are property of Midway.

Thanks go to Boon, Tobias and the rest of the MK team! Thanks for a great
game guys! And mucho thanks for KEEPING the block button!!!!!

As I said, this is the quick, down and dirty FAQ just to get it out right
away, I promise it'll be much improved in the next one.  

If you know any moves or anything else please e-mail them to me and you WILL
get credited.
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