The fatalities in this game are so great. I don;t want to get ahead of myself, because it's not even out yet, but from what I've seen so far it may well have the best "executed" (harhar) fatality system of the entire series. There's a lot of inventive, painful, slow, and/or just outright brutal finishing moves, and the camera angles are spectacular. As some people have noted, the focus is far more on the
victim than it has been in the past, particularly the post-fatality camera shot. This has been a problem in most (all?) of the 3D Mortal Kombat games so far: in many of the fatalities, the final cinematic shot of the match, the one you can hold on screen the longest, has been of the victor. Sometimes the victim is included - Sub-Zero's Spine and later Torso Rip, Baraka's Blade Lift, Zombie Lui's Body Possession, and so forth - but most of the time the victim's body is off-screen and forgotten.
I'm still not warming to the character models. Mileena's in particular is a disappointment, although I've never been much of a fan of Mileena or of all the porn-attention her costumes have earned her, so it's a mixed blessing. HOWEVER, Kitana's MK2 costume is all I need. It's in the game, it looks fantastic, I'm happy. Also, Kitana's alt looks nice in action! Similar to the MK9 Primary, only slightly less slutty. I feel bad for fans of the other girls, I really do, but maybe you guys (and gals!) can come join the Kitana Krew? We have cookies.
Not sure what my favorite finishing move is yet. I'm getting this on PC, and when the game comes out, I'll have to make videos and do some in-depth reviews for each of the fatalities. So far, I think the ones I'm
most fascinated with are Scorpion's face slice (slicing someone's face off seems to be a popular animation in this game) Mileena's torso feast (again, not usually a fan of Mileena or yuri ryona, but I love love LOVE torso rip finishers, and the way her victim tries to crawl away is reminiscent of Hsu Hsao's MK:DA and Sub Zero's MK:Dec finishers, both personal favorites of mine from their respective games), and Quan Chi's deepthroat sword split (OBVIOUS oral sex subtext, complete with gagging noises). I'm also really digging Kitana's finishing moves, which is a nice change of pace, since historically the only fatalities of hers that are any good tend to be the Kiss of Death ones.
Kenshi's Fatality on Kitana (excellent slow-mo)
https://youtu.be/fdSjhX8o6E0