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Mortal Kombat 8, starting from scratch. Blame Epic/Gears |
Listed in: PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 Tags: Ed Boon, Epic Games, Midway Games, Unreal Engine
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Sorry if this is on the late-ish side, but perhaps it was because people have been focusing on Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, this might have slipped under the radar... until CVG brought it up recently. And we're still wondering WHY this slipped under the radar until now.Don't over-react: starting from scratch isn't necessarily a bad thing. "Everything is getting trashed. We're reinventing everything from the ground up. We really think that's needed," Ed Boon tells GameInformer back during MGD '07, about the Midway Games MK team's concept for the next-gen Mortal Kombat 8. "We're not going to have three fighting styles, we're not going to have the same punches and kicks and the same kind of control scheme."
Never mind what it doesn't have: guess what it will have, according to CVG: Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3. Yes, Ed did a Squeenix. And there's one game to blame - er, to credit for MK8's new look. "Our goal, graphically, with this game is to be as gritty... To me, when I saw Gears of War, I was like, 'Holy s***! That's the look that we've been talking about... Visually, that's what we want to do.'"
If that chainsaw ever makes a cameo as a Fatality... Well, you now know who or what to turn to when the blood starts to fly in MK8. Boon gives a "Novemberish time of 2008" estimate for the next-gen Kombat to kick in. (As there are no known specifics yet about which console/s it will appear in, we've gone and dropped it in all three next-gen consoles, to be sure. Please put all debates on hold until we get firmer reports about 8's destination.)
Mark Rein must be tickled pink into a Babality.
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i think what boon is saying would be a good thing for the franchise.
all the 3d MK games have all looked kinda cartoonish to me.
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I WANT to see something new, but I don't want to see a halfassed game like Armageddon (seriously, the Kreate-A-Fatality is a piece of crap they threw in so they wouldn't have to code as much, and don't get me started on Motoro). Something about the UT3 engine screams 'SHORTCUT!!' to me (bad thing).
Oh, and I've seen this 'new direction' with Puzzle Kombat, and the Go-Kart minigames... Someone needs to B*+ch slap Boon until he remembers what it was that made Mortal Kombat an immortal game.
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I was sick of the franchise by the third game. The second movie didn't help, either.
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