Nevertheless, the game received largely positive reviews at the time. As of 2014, the review aggregator website GameRankings is giving it the averaged scores of 80.23% for the Super NES, 76.67% for the Genesis, and 70.33% for the Sony PlayStation. "Electronic Gaming Monthly" ("EGM") gave the PlayStation version their "Game of the Month" award. "EGM" and IGN both criticized the heavy lag during Shang Tsung's morphing while assessing the conversion overall as a near-perfect replication of the graphics, content, and controls of the arcade original. However, IGN gave it a negative assessment based on the shortcomings of "Mortal Kombat 3" itself, recommending "Street Fighter" 2D fighting games over it unless one is a "die-hard "MK" fan". According to a later IGN retrospective, "Despite the evolutions in gameplay, "Mortal Kombat 3" was simply not met with same kind of enthusiasm as its predecessor. While the new 'cyber-ninja' characters were popular, the loss of so many favorites from the roster left many players feeling left out. A new "Mortal Kombat" was impossible to ignore, but the response wasn't quite what Midway had hoped for."