| Mortal Kombat Advance | |
|---|---|
 Mortal Kombat Advance box art | |
| Developer(s) | Virtucraft |
| Publisher(s) | Midway Games |
| Series | Mortal Kombat |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Mortal Kombat Advance is a fighting video game developed by Virtucraft and published by Midway Games for the Game Boy Advance in North America in December 2001. It is part of the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games. It is a handheld version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, although it was designed with the intention of evoking the best aspects of the first three games in the series and Mortal Kombat Trilogy.
Mortal Kombat Advance allows players to take control of one of multiple playable characters, who fights against a computer-controlled or player-controlled opponent one-on-one. The game allows players to use various combo moves, as well as fatalities at the end of the fight. Due to the Game Boy Advance having fewer buttons than the arcade cabinets the games originally appeared on, the designers had to modify how Mortal Kombat Advance controlled.
Upon release, Mortal Kombat Advance was negatively received, holding a 33/100 score on Metacritic, which the site characterizes as "generally unfavorable reviews". It was largely criticized for poor controls, the limitations of the Game Boy Advance, and poorly made artificial intelligence for computer-controlled opponents. The game also received extremely low scores in Electronic Gaming Monthly. It has been regarded as the worst game of 2002 by GameSpot and one of the worst games of all time by GamesRadar+.
- ^ "Mortal Kombat Advance sur Gameboy Advance". Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Webedia. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
- ^ "Midway Brings Mortal Kombat® to Next-Generation Handheld System". Midway Games. December 12, 2001. Archived from the original on May 23, 2005. Retrieved April 24, 2023.