Warner Bros. announced a new Mortal Kombat game this morning, and Seven of Nine is nowhere to be found. The game, called simply Mortal Kombat, appears to be a return to the classic Mortal Kombat 2/3 style of gameplay -- extremely quick, 2D fighting -- which has been given a fresh coat of 3D paint and a very noticeable 60 frames-per-second framerate. It also features a man being sliced open at the groin with a spinning hat.
It adds a new tag team mode for up to four players, allowing teams to play through a "co-op arcade mode" or compete online against other pairs of e-murderers.
The game is being developed by Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon and NetherRealm Studios (the former WB Games Chicago) and is slated for launch on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2011.
It's still stupid for any game to allow projectiles to be that deadly to begin with. That was why I liked 3D fighters. People had to be careful with their projectiles. Or do BB system of projectiles. They're pretty balanced to me.
Projectiles in SF(IV) do chip damage at best. Anyone being terrorized by them needs to watch a few Youtube videos and browse the Shoryuken forums a few minutes before complaining further.
Even if this ends up being terrible, and a movie never gets made, the simple fact of the matter is, WB has made gamers go from complete indifference to a huge amount of excitement in the space of 3 days.
Now, make sure the movie gets made, and the game rocks as much as MK1 did.
It will be impossible to make a MK vs SF game fans of both like. The styles of games are to different. It's like trying to take a massively gory comic and pair it up with an anime that has nothing of the sort. We can dream though.
It always kills me when they do the "explain everything about a character to another character (probably the new kid in school or the rookie) while the character you're talking about is off in the distance doing something very representative of that character".
I'll forgive it in that trailer though since it's not actually part of a movie it's just to drum up interest for the idea.
So that trailer wasn’t for another cheesy looking movie? Good.
I have about as much faith in the MK franchise as I do in the Sonic franchise at this point. Actually, there are more recent Sonic titles that I own. My last MK game was on the Genesis. It just seems that every time I want to buy a new MK game, I hear something about it that would make the purchase pointless, like a lack of fatalities and gore. Those things are cornerstones to the franchise.
My god, a new game trailer comes out and people automatically make assumptions about what the promo trailer was about. It's been confirmed and written that the Rebirth trailer was only a promo trailer so the director could shop it around.
I'm so conflicted now. This game looks exactly how I want a new MK game to be (2D fighter, online play and return of the gore), but I also hope that the MK movie pitch becomes a reality with it's dark and gritty take on the franchise. Can these 2 co-exist? Will WB allow the movie to be made? Will I ever change my recently soiled underwear ?
The newest chapter of the iconic fight franchise marks a triumphant return to the series' mature presentation and a reinvention of its classic 2D fighting mechanic. Driven by an all new graphics engine, the fan favorite Fatality is back and presented in more gory detail than ever before. In addition, Mortal Kombat introduces a number of new game-play features including tag team and the deepest story mode of any fighting game. Players can choose from an extensive lineup of the game's iconic warriors and challenge their friends in traditional 1 vs. 1 matches, or take on several new game modes.
