Reception
In 2011, GamesRadar named Smoke as the first on the list of "gaming's most malicious machines" along with Cyrax and Sektor, commenting "no one does killer cyborgs quite like MK." Game Rant ranked Smoke at #3 on their "10 Most Awesome Mortal Kombat Characters" list, citing his teleport uppercut and harpoon special moves. Game Rant also listed his "Smoked Out" Fatality from MK 2011 as an honorable mention on their "Top 10 Fatalities Of Mortal Kombat 9 (2011)" list, praising it's uniqueness, as well listing Cyber Smoke as their most wanted DLC character for MK 2011. Paste also ranked his "Smoked Out" Fatality as the seventh best from that game. ScrewAttack listed Smoke as the 5th best character on their "Top 10 Mortal Kombat Kharacters" list, commenting "With Scorpion's harpoon and Reptile's invisibility, this is one ninja you do not want to screw with". 411mania ranked Cyber Smoke as the best Mortal Kombat character, commenting "Cyber-Smoke is the character I miss the most in the current MK". In UGO Networks' 2012 list of the "Top 50 Mortal Kombat Characters", Smoke placed at 13th.
Topless Robot listed Smoke as the eighth goofiest Mortal Kombat character, citing the smoke flowing around his body and his Fatality from MK3 where he blows the whole planet. That same Fatality appears to be one of the most popular finishing moves, as it was listed as the best Fatality ever by IGN in 2010 and the most confusing Fatality by Game Informer in 2010, as well as listed as the best Fatality ever and the 2nd most gruesome finishing move by UGO Networks in 2007 and 2011; in addition, GameSpy ranked that Fatality as ninth on their 2009 list of 10 biggest video game explosions.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)