Stage music actually changes as you fight, ebbing and flowing with the tide of battle. The game is also very impressive in terms of its audio.

Effects like the shadow effect on super moves are some of the coolest visual effects we have seen in fighting games yet. The 2.5D graphics run incredibly smoothly, and you can lose yourself in stage graphics when you should be fighting. Visually, Killer Instinct is one of the more impressive games on the Xbox One. High-level play is weighted so heavily on “did you combo break correctly” that it feels like a whole match can be lost on one simple finger twitch. In fact, I’d say that Killer Instinct is most fun when played at a new to intermediate level. When that does happen, health totals swing heavily, which makes the game feel very random. This means that those awesome killer combos that you have spent hours in training mode perfecting really rarely go off unless the opponent makes a stupid mistake. Unless you are playing against a total newbie who loves to mash combo breakers and get himself locked out, combo breakers happen all the time. For example, while the combo/counter break system seems like it would be fun and fair, really it just makes the game feel sloppy. While this isn’t particularly the case in this new Xbox One version, there are still a couple issues that make the game less fun when you are facing a skilled opponent. Past Killer Instincts were known for being more fun in single-player than they were in multiplayer.

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