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WHAT’S your favourite Mortal Kombat fatality?

Darran Jones

It’s not technically a Fatality, but Stryker’s Animality from Mortal Kombat III is amazing. He turns into a tyrannosaurus and bites his opponent in half.

Expertise:

Juggling a gorgeous wife, two beautiful girls and an award-winning magazine Currently playing:

Guardian Heroes

Favourite game of all time: Strider

Woz Brown

Raiden’s head-popping Emperor impression. Expertise:

Tracking down

Windows 98 drivers Currently playing:

Unreal Tournament ‘99 Favourite game of all time: The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time

paul Drury

I like Kung Lao’s ‘split them right down the middle’ hat trick, though I was more of a ‘Friendship’ finisher fan myself #peace.

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Videogame quizzes Currently playing: Spacewar!

Favourite game of all time: Sheep In Space

Drew sleep

I quite like the one from MKX where Johnny Cage rips a hole in his opponent and yells ‘HERE’S JOHNNY’ through the gap in an homage to Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Expertise:

Minimal water damage Currently playing: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Favourite game of all time: Final Fantasy VIII

Graeme mason

I remember seeing Johnny Cage’s head punch decaptitation and thinking, ‘Wow did that really just happen?’ You never forget your first fatality! Expertise:

Adjusting the tape azimuth with a screwdriver

Currently playing:

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Favourite game of all time: Resident Evil 4

paul Walker-emig

I’m a fan of the sillier Fatalities, so I’ll plump for Kabal’s Soul Scream from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 where his big stupid head puffs up and he literally screams the soul out of his opponent’s body.

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Pretentious indie games Currently playing:

Baba Is You

Favourite game of all time: Metal Gear Solid

nick Thorpe

Sub-zero’s Mortal Kombat

2011 one, where he freezes his opponent, rips out the skull and spinal cord and then uses those to shatter the rest of the body. Great spin on a classic. Expertise:

Owning five Master Systems (I sold two)

Currently playing:

Robocop Versus The Terminator Favourite game of all time: Sonic The Hedgehog

andrew Fisher

Kung Lao slicing someone in half with his hat.

Expertise:

Over 35 years of gaming, from Commodore 64 to Wii U Currently playing:

Dicey Dungeons

Favourite game of all time: Wizball

rory milne

I’m not keen on gore, so I’ll go for Sub-zero’s MKII ‘Ice Shatter’ deathblow. For some reason, frozen blood and guts just don’t seem as disturbing.

Expertise:

The game that I’m writing about at the time of writing

Currently playing:

Robocop 2

Favourite game of all time: Tempest