New Mortal Kombat game for PS3 and X360
 

http://kotaku.com/5560010/the-new-mo...pure-brutality

Woah. They brought back some characters that I definitely did not foresee returning.

Woohooo!! Excellent! The video won't load for some reason, but from the thumbnail it seems that the characters design have lost the excessive musculature from the past games. Which is what I wanted to see: characters with realistic proportions that could stand side to side with the digitized actors from the first games.

Now all we need is better music. Some techno that pumps you up, something that the movies and animated series had but for some reason the games did not. Oh, and the return of the Kreate a Character mode.

Nelson's list:
- 2D gameplay (check)
- Realistic proportions on character models
- Better music
- Character creation

I just want Liu Kang back. And not as a zombie.

I'm finding it weird that everybody's going nuts (in a good way) over Kung Lao's Fatality... as if it wasn't recycled from a game made five years ago.

Don't get me wrong, it's an awesome Fatality... in fact, I think it's my favorite from Shaolin Monks... it's just... not new.

So let me get this straight. New Mortal Kombat, gory as hell, with REAL 2D GAMEPLAY, and no bullsh*t, plus the return of the pit.

Thank you Street Fighter IV.

Can't wait.

THIS is what I wanted. Looks so awesome. I can't wait.

Yeah, it's pretty safe to say that SF4 paved the way for the MK developers to realize that the classic stuff is where it's at.

Or it could be that Ed Boon said, while MKvsDC was still being developed, that directly after MKvsDC was finished this was the game they were making? Am I the only one who heard that?

F*ck giving Street Fighter IV credit for EVERYTHING. Let's move the hell ON.

Ed Boon says a lot of s**t. Seriously, if you ever go back and watch some of his older interviews, approximately 75% of what he says doesn't make it into a game.

You're just sad 'cause you don't like SF.

I'm really not that impressed with the trailer, the graphics aren't that impressive in fact it looks like MKvsDC. Of course I am very happy that this IS MK and not that ****** realistic take the film pitch had.

Now it is true that Boon says a lot of **** but I disagree a lot of the stuff he says doesn't make it but a lot of the stuff does make it. I am sure they looked at SF4 and saw what they could use but besides that i really see no real big influence from SF4.

Boon said plenty of times that Armageddon was the last MK of that kind and we'd get a new MK for the next game. He also said everything would start fresh and it'd have to do nothing with the previous storyline and characters.

I thought the next MK would have been like SF3 that it was all new fighters that had nothing to do with the past games only Ken/Ryu came back and I figured SubZero/Scorpio would remain. Instead we get familiar characters, so I'm guessing this is a reboot, which I'd be fine with a reboot since there is a lot of cleaning up to do in the early MK Mythos, however the trailer clearly shows MK2/3 characters and settings that don't belong in the first game. I guess you can make room for them but Cyrax is also there so early on? I wouldn't call that cleaning up the Mythos but messing them up even further but oh well.

Hopefully it'll be something interesting, I really don't see it being as amazing as the forums are making it out to be though. Its as if they just re-discovered MK and say the 3d games sucked even if they didn't play them. I'd argue the 3D games are superior to the 2D Mortal Kombats. Anyways just glad the game does feel like MK and not a ****** realistic b-horror movie looking reboot.

Looks sick. Man, I have MK fever as of late!

ooh baby, yeah this is what's a like! can't wait!

I dunno. I'd actually really, really like a game like that film pitch. It wouldn't necessarily have to be the mainstream MK as much as a one-off or alternate universe type thing, like Twisted Metal had with Black. After Black they made Head-On, which was set in the normal TM universe.

Not really. If I actually cared enough, I could go back and come up with a laundry list of things he's said that don't make it into a game. I don't have any doubt that he may have tried to get the team to get these things in, but in the end, there is a LOT of stuff scrapped, apparently due to time.

One thing that Boon has said that has been consistent, is that they look at other fighters out there and take what they can that works for those fighters, that would also work for them. With SF4, it and (arguably, BlazBlue) have started a new wave of 2D fighters - the popularity of these games has returned to the forefront. That, and SF4 brought the game back to the basics while still delivering something cool and new - which is exactly what this new game seems to be doing.

Sektor.

BUT HE SAID THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WOULD BE DOING DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF MKvsDC! Jesus. And talking about things he'd like to put into the game, but can't or doesn't end up doing, has nothing to do with something like this. You act like he's f*cking Molyneux.

There were a lot more games that "brought things back to basics" and sold amazingly well before SFIV, a lot of them were even Capcom games. I don't understand why everyone thinks the "huge success" (MKvsDC sold nearly as much) of SFIV is what's causing all of these "back to basics" game design decisions.

Oh Peanut...

Don't ever change.

Have a cookie.

Well remember how MK4 was supposed to be "back to the basics" which is why it only had Fatalities and they got rid of everything else.
Theres another game he also called "back to the basics" as well, I think Deception so this is nothing new. Metal bands also do this all the time.

Anyways I am a bit disappointed at the new game however, I actually expected much worse so at least this does feel MK.

Personally I want more adventure games, Shaolin Munks was pretty fun.


Meh, they would have done it as a full reboot and if it was a success then old MK was as good as dead and if it bombed (which I think it would have) then we would have gotten the old MK back.

I don't know if Twisted Metal is a good analogy since Black did make it more realistic but the mood was still part of the original even if more cartoony. In the movie pitch it took away an important part of it, no different than making Goku a HS student.

With that said in that case Black is clearly the better take on the franchise and why the hell has Sony not made a sequel? long over due and I don't have hopes for it being at E3.

I even googled it to see if I got it right and realized I switched them only to end up typing it wrong.

Black 2 was canceled and Jaffe keeps teasing a PS3 entry but nothing concrete is ever seen. EatSleepPlay is reportedly working on something right now that is NOT TM though.

Happens to the best of us.

So...what part of what he said is wrong, exactly?

I never said he was right or wrong. I just keep forgetting how hardcore some folks are about video games 'round these parts, and I'm not up to the challenge to discuss/debate/argue/et cetera most times. So I'm just dropping it.

I'm just glad its 2D. I'm HOPING this thing has some kind of presence at E3, but I doubt it. Either way, its just good to have the real Mortal Kombat back.

This is looking great so far! I love the MK series, but the more recent games with their awkward combos and switching between fighting styles just haven't felt the same as the glory days of MK2 (or even 3). I'm liking the more 2D approach and am looking forward to finding out more about this game.

Oh, and Twisted Metal Black definitely deserves a sequel. I still hold out hope, even if it's unlikely at this point.

I'm wondering what we'll see in terms of new characters. There have been a lot of new ones in the more recent games that have been absolute rubbish.

Speaking of which, it seems Kira and Li Mei are chained up in Shao Kahn's arena, where Sonya and Kano were back in MKII.

What do you mean?

actual new characters? for some reason I think we'll have very few like maybe only 4 which is disappointing but they'll fill the roster with classic characters like SF4 did.

new characters from the already released 3D games? Again like SF4 I think we'll only see 2 or 3 of the very iconic/popular ones like Quan Chi and Frost.

Which kinda sucks, I like seeing new characters and I hated how SF4 ignored almost everyone who wasn't SF2 and left out awesome Alpha/SF3 characters. They did fix it a bit with SSF4 but meh it still needed more SF4 and actual new characters.

The 3D games characters have definitely grown on me, at least most, theres still a few I hate like BoRaiCho but then again the original games also had some pretty lame ones like Nightwolf.


Another thing I first hated about the 3D games I actually give them a lot of credit for now. I hated how they made all the ninja/color palette characters different without their iconic costumes but then I realized it made no sense for them all to wear the same outfit since they were not related anyways. Sure it was cool having multicolored ninjas but they were not related so no reason to have them wear the same costumes and look the same.

yeah i'm wondering about new characters as well. since Armageddon was like suppossed to end the old characters' stories.

Yeah, I meant what sort of brand new, never before-seen characters. I didn't like most of the ones introduced in 4 and up (although there were some diamonds in the rough), so I'm wondering if they introduce anybody, y'know, worthwhile.

So far it looks like some of their newer characters from the 3D games might be relegated to the background. Time will tell.

SF4's initial wank to the entire SF2 roster in the arcade kind of irked me, yeah, but with the home version and eventually SSF4, it became better. SSF4 is better for the brand new characters, too, because even though it only introduced two, they're immensely popular. Heck, I've even appropriated Juri as one of my two mains.

Three's cast was pretty lame as well, but I totally dug Kabal and the cyber-Lin Kuei guys.

Right. It does make perfect sense, after all, now that there aren't as many limitations. And also consider the fact that, technically, Scorpion is the only ninja of the bunch (Sub-Zero I/II and Smoke are Lin Kuei, and SZI took a lot of offense at being called a ninja).

I hope there's like 2 new characters and they're both just palette swaps. Please, God. Fulfill this dream!

I can't wait for this game to come out... I'm gonna get it for my PS3, and I will gladly challenge anyone on this forum who knows how to play Mortal Kombat games... Long live MK!:tgrin:

Played it at Warner today. Its Mortal Kombat 2 in 3D. This is amazing.

so now we know the exclusive character for the PS3 version. wonder what it'll be for the 360?

The answer to that question is: Who Cares.

I hope the answer is nobody.

To be fair, Kratos seems like a really good fit for MK.

Kratos is too good for MK.

Hell, his basic combo IS a Fatality.

Apparently theres talks of retailer exclusive fatalities. I don't even know how that'd work.

As long as it's better than that Kreate-A-Fatality crap they thought of before.

It's just pre-packaged DLC, I'm sure, just like the costumes they come with.

yup for sure

I've been waiting for this reboot since last year, it should bring the series back on it's feet.

i have playstation plus and i've been playing the Demo for this , it's pretty awesome. The character designs are pretty different from previous games , and they added some awesome gameplay features and special moves.

it's definantly gonna be a great game.