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Ed Boon reveals Mortal Kombat: Fire & Ice, a canceled co-op game

by Griffin McElroy on Jul 12th 2010 4:30PM

While speaking to Game Informer about older Mortal Kombat projects, series creator Ed Boon unveiled one installment of the which never saw the light of day: A co-op action adventure game subtitled Fire & Ice. "When they finished [Shaolin Monks]," Boon explained, "the guys at Paradox were gonna do another one called Fire & Ice. It was gonna be a co-operative Scorpion and Sub-Zero game."

We're not sure how the game's writers would have navigated the series' canon to make this union possible (don't those two, like, hate each other?), but we're disappointed nonetheless. To think -- if someone had asked us what our favorite co-op Mortal Kombat game was, and then asked what our favorite 1980s German ski film was, we could have just given them a single, satisfying answer.

Source: Game Informer

Tags: cancelled, ed-boon, fire-and-ice, mortal-kombat, mortal-kombat-fire-and-ice, netherrealm-studios

Reader Comments (33)

wait if i remember correctly doesn't sub zero hate scorpion more than the gaming hates bobby kotick because you know he killed his brother

@Special Agent Bob

Wait, I think I got it. Throughout his whole life, Sub-Zero was living with a clone of his brother, to which Scorpion killed, because it turns out Scorpion is Sub-Zero's real brother. Kind of like The Prestige.

@Special Agent Bob

Where's Secret Agent Steve!?

@Special Agent Bob
In MK 1 they hate each other. After the end though and in the start of MK2 Scorpion protects Sub-Zero. So they could've easily gone with the official storyline for MK.
Just like how Kung Lao and Goro settled their diffrences and became friends.

@The Aquacharger

Kung Lao and Goro are friends?

What kind of mad, twisted, dark and void world you live on?

This is MADNESS!

@Special Agent Bob

Nah, they just play up their rivalry for the extra publicity it brings. Truth is they're good, close friends that frequently get together and jam out 80's style!

http://tinypic.com/r/29zv30z/3

@Ashkental
End of MK4 Gold edition they end their fued, shake hands, and agree to work with each other.

@Ashkental

FRIENDSHIP!

Missed an enormous opportunity here.

They probably could've made it so that they were forced to work together to take out a bigger threat. Kinda like a Vegeta, Goku partnership during the Frieza Saga

@Prboi

It takes a lot for someone to get me to say this... but god DAMN you are a nerd. Okatu for sure.

@Punkrawk Bbob

Nah, I just got done watching the entire Dragonball Z Series online. It's just fresh in my head lol

@Punkrawk Bbob

Nah, I just got done watching the entire Dragonball Z series & it's still fresh in my head lol

@Punkrawk Bbob

Otaku*. Plus I don't see how him using that as a reference immediately makes him an otaku, unless you were being sarcastic.

@Punkrawk Bbob

Because Dragonball Z is the most obscure thing one could ever find on the internet to reference this situation.

Odds are, more people on this site have seen it than those who haven't

@Punkrawk Bbob .......when one of the most popular animes in america, watched by an obscene amount of children in it's day is referenced, how does that imply either extreme nerdiness or even being an anime nerd period?

@The Nth Doctor

It was just a reference. Jeeze, I didn't mean to spark some argument

@Xiegfried

one - sorry for typo. Heaven forbid my fat fingers strew up a stroke or two. Getting used to a laptop that I borrowed.

two - I'm imagining trying to explain this to someone in public. Anyone overhearing you saying Goku and Vegeta teaming up for a battle against Frieza would assume you're a freakish manchild and will probably reference you being like the guy from 40-Year Old Virgin.

Just sayin'. Sorry for having a sense of humor on Joystiq ^_^

@Punkrawk Bbob
Man, if you call that guy an otaku, then what do you call someone who points out that G Gundam makes multiple references to the Chinese wuxia novel Xiao Ao Jiang Hu, like the Touhou Fuhai being the Dong Fang Bu Bai? I sure wouldn't want to be that guy.

@killdash9

I'd call him cultured, he's read foreign novels. ;)

@Punkrawk Bbob
Well, no, that guy actually only watched a Xiao Ao Jiang Hu Chinese TV series adaptation from a few years ago. I mean, if he existed, of course.

Shaolin Monks was one of the better MK games to come out in the last decade. It makes me a sad panda to know this could have been ;-(

http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/776/776865/blades-of-glory-20070329042749996.jpg

You do a story about Fire and Ice and don't use a picture from the movie Blades of Glory? I'm appalled.

This is similar to someone telling you that you almost had a million dollars but it was torn to shreds. Maybe not a million, more like twenty-five dollars.

Ninja Gaiden combat style with Mortal Kombat characters and fatalities. You just lost 70$ from me.

It wouldn't be THAT hard to trump up a reason for them to work together, especially in a context as cornball as the Mortal Kombat universe.

Disappointed they dropped the project. Monks was the best MK game since... oh, just about EVER.