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New Mortal Kombat Movie and Game (Plus Other News)
Aside from Street Fighter, very few fighting games have reached the same legendary status as Mortal Kombat. It is largely credited as starting the whole war against video game violence and gore. Well, it seems to be rising from the dead, despite the downfall of Midway. That’s right. Mortal Kombat is back. FINISH HIM!
There are two parts to this story. First, it seems that a new Mortal Kombat movie is in the works and it seems to have Jax working for the FBI and he’s hunting down such bad guys like Sub-Zero. They seem to be changing some of the mythology, however, as Baraka is depicted as a rogue plastic surgeon who took the knife on himself (rather than some beast from Outworld).
You can read more about the movie on Slashfilm and check out the leaked trailer video here:
But wait. There’s more. They’re developing a new video game too and, from what we can tell, it’s simply going to be called Mortal Kombat. Based on the new trailer, the gameplay will return to the 2D roots of Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 3, rather than the more recent 3D incarnations of Mortal Kombat.
The new Mortal Kombat will seemingly be akin to Street Fighter IV in that you get 2D core gameplay with 3D rendered graphics. The fatality by Kung Lao at the end of the video looks particularly impressive, as does the depiction of Shao Khan.
In other news:
- There’s a trailer for Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown.
- Xbox 360 owners can get a new premium theme featuring Super Street Fighter IV gals in swimsuits.
- More Marvel vs. Capcom 3 screenshots are coming out, including these hi-res pics. More details have been released as well.
To cap off today’s roundup, here is a new Marvel vs. Capcom 3 trailer featuring Dante (Devil May Cry) and Marvel’s Deadpool. So sweet.
Fighting Games News Update - 02/16/09
Despite being the center of controversy (and success) during the 90s with games like NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat, Midway has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Word of this downfall had been swirling for a while now, but it’s still sad to see the once proud company go down. Are we to assume that Ed Boon and crew won’t be making another Mortal Kombat ever again?
If you had a lot of fun playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Nintendo Wii, then you just may need to pay some extra attention to TMNT: Smash Up. It’s a fighting game developed by the same people who made Smash Bros. except it features guys like Leonardo and Raphael. I wonder if the Casey, the Rat King, and Bebop make the cut too?
In anticipation of Street Fighter IV coming out this week on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, 1Up has put together a series of videos that document the evolution of some of the fighting game franchise’s best-known characters. Look at how much they’ve changed in the last 20 years! Check out the videos of Ryu, Sagat, Ken, M. Bison (Vega in Japan), and Chun-Li.
Speaking of Street Fighter IV, Capcom sold 86,000 copies on the first day in Japan. Expect similar popularity around these parts. There’s also a very cheap way to unlock all the characters as soon as you buy the game this week. In the meantime, you can put yourself in the game and drool over the Mad Catz FightStick.
Check out the crazy version of Guile rendered above. This was created using the Unreal engine. You can go to the forum thread to see a few more renders of other Street Fighter characters too.
Oh, and still the cheapest place to pre-order Street Fighter IV (for Canadians) is on Amazon. The PlayStation 3
Jumping to the Tekken end of things, we’ve got the latest trailer for Tekken 6 and, well, it looks very, very hot.
Six Minutes of Mortal Kombat Fatalities
It was shocking when we first heard about the convergence of Mortal Kombat and the DC Universe and it was even more shocking when we heard that there would no longer be any fatalities in that so-called Mortal Kombat game. I was just itching at the possibility of tearing out the heart of Batman or decapitating Superman in the most glorious of fashions.
Ed Boon took several steps backwards and then jumped forward to tell us that there would be modified fatalities in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Sorry. Without the removal of limbs, the explosion of craniums, or the consumption of body parts, it’s just not a fatality.
To bid adieu to the legendary fatality, please enjoy the video above that compiles every fatality in the Mortal Kombat franchise. Explosions, electrocutions, and other brutalities await you.
Source: New Launches
