Tobias's departure and the game was rushed to completion. Tobias said about the final version: "You know I really never played it, I saw it at E3 and I maybe played it for like five minutes and never really played it after that. So I'm not really familiar with how it ended up." Ed Boon later recalled: "I didn't work on Special Forces. The game and project were riddled with all kinds of problems. I could write a book on that." Reception The game received "unfavorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Blake Fischer of NextGen said of the game, "Don't let the cheap price fool you. This isn't even worth a trip to the store." Of all the Mortal Kombat games, Special Forces is considered by some to be the worst. Its sales were so low that Midway placed the series on hold in preparation for Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (2002). Ed Boon himself stated: "The game had a pretty bumpy development ride and the game didn't turn out very good at all." In 2011, GamesRadar+ ranked it as the second most absurd Mortal Kombat offshoot (behind only Mortal Kombat: Live Tour). In 2013, the website also ranked it as the 41st worst game ever made. Conversely, some of the reviews have been more positive. Video Games: The Ultimate Guide gave the game 7 out of 10, GameVortex gave it 79%, and The Electric Playground gave it 7 out of 10. See also United States Army Special Forces in popular culture References External links 2000 video games Action video games Cancelled Dreamcast games Cancelled Nintendo 64 games Midway video games Mortal Kombat games PlayStation (console) games PlayStation (console)-only games Video games developed in the United States Video games scored by Dan Forden Video game spin-offs Video game prequels Single-player video games Video games featuring black protagonists