Anya 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 The new issue of Game Informer has the first pics and info on the next MK game due out in October. It uses the MKDA/MKD engine and will be the final game on current gen systems. There are over 60 playable characters. Every character in the series is back. Shinnok, Stryker, Kai, Rain, Jarek, all of the characters you never thought would return are back and have new looks. The only exception is Motaro, who they are having trouble putting into 3D. Create-a-character and custom fatality modes. A new Konquest mode similar to MK Shaolin Monks. Boon hypes that the theme of the game is finality. Story wise this is it. The final battle in the MK tournament as we know it. The next game will be on next gen systems and will apparently be a whole new beginning. I have little hope that the gameplay will be good. The engine is a lost cause. But the idea of this being the big finale of the story is exciting. The big question is how everyone can be back. The most popular theory is that The One Being is trying to merge the realms and is nearly succeding, making it so that Neatherealm is open and in chaos and the dead have risen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 MK 66.6 : The Kuest for Even More Ka$h! Hopefully this will be a more polished effort than the origial MK Trilogy. However, at this point a slight improvement is boundlessly optimistic. If Konquest is improved (more actual goals than collecting, tutorials, and the occasional real fight) it should be a good rental/budget purchase tho. Since Shaolin Monks was the best MK game in nearly 10 years, I'm hopeful. I wonder what thrown-together minigame it may have on the side to try to sell the package. Maybe a dating sim this time. Considering the Kollector's Editions are still sitting on some store shells, I wonder what marketing gimmick they might go with this time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anya 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 The game won't be polished. It's Mortal Kombat. Ed Boon couldn't balance 12 characters. God imagine how broken and crappy it's going to be with a roster of 60 characters. And just imagine the recycling. There will probably be like 20 fighting styles spread out amongst the characters. There is NO WAY they will all actually play differently. They couldn't even put in Goro and Kahn into MKD for GC without recycling animation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 Considering that between DA and D is was the same fighting styles with different specials, yeah--lots of repeats to be sure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 Stryker is back? SIGN ME UP! Seriously though, it sounds like a neat concept. I'm sure the game will suck but I'll end up being excited about it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Young 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 All the characters being in is cool, but the Deception engine was atrocious. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ted the Poster 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 The hell does "Custom Fatality Mode" mean? Why would they have trouble putting Motaro into 3D? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
El Psycho Diablo 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 Everyone's back? It's palette swappin' time! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 It's like Mortal Kombat Trilogy in 3D. Has anybody ever played MK:D online? Most of the people I have ever played were cheap and took advantage of those death traps. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Young 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 Yeah, I played it on Live and it sucked. 1 player sucked even worse... But when I first got it and played with my cousin, we loved it. Then again, we felt the same way about SVC Chaos, and I ended up trading that in for $16 within 2 weeks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 Plus, just like any fighting/wrestling game on gamespy servers, the online play in PS2 is buggy as hell. I can't say how good/bad X-Box Live was with it. Matt: SVC Chaos? Good Lord, I'll play just about any 2D fighter for a while, but that was painful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Young 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 Plus, just like any fighting/wrestling game on gamespy servers, the online play in PS2 is buggy as hell. I can't say how good/bad X-Box Live was with it. Matt: SVC Chaos? Good Lord, I'll play just about any 2D fighter for a while, but that was painful. It was the Toys R Us annual buy 2 get 1 sale in 2004. I was just about to get an Xbox, so I stocked up on games. However, I did not go til the last day of the sale, and many of the games I wanted were gone. SVC Chaos was playable in the store, so I tried it. It was really fun, and I thought the personalized dialogue for each matchup was cool, so I bought it. I soon regretted that decision, as I mentioned above. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2006 "SVC Chaos was playable in the store" A marked improvement over the other versions! Okay, guilty as charged on the personalized dialogue. That, Red Arremer, and the roster in general are the only reasons I actually played it as long as I did. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Use Your Illusion 0 Report post Posted January 15, 2006 Ugh, the same engine. It was a fun and welcome change in MK:DA, it was wearing thin in Deception and it is going to be tedious as all hell in Armageddon if it is going to be stretched over that many fighters. I'm interested storyline wise, to see how Boon ties everything (the best he can do is try, I guess, to make sense of the convoluted mess that is MK) together in one, big finale. I really don't think this will be any good gameplay wise, though. I'd like him to prove me wrong. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted January 15, 2006 Wasn't Armageddon also the name of the much rumoured but as of yet unproduced and non-existent MK3 movie? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anya 0 Report post Posted January 15, 2006 There's been a bunch of fake names for that. I've also heard Domination and Devastation. That movie is the Duke Nukem Forever of the MK franchise. It's constantly rumored to begin filming "in a few months" and nothing every comes of it. I don't think they even have a script. All the "news" on it is like years old. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BUTT 0 Report post Posted January 15, 2006 I think it would be cool if they did an MK prequel that featured the original Kung Lao, Shang Tsung and a bunch of new characters. Not Goro, though, because he'd have to be more powerful than everyone else. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted January 15, 2006 I just read the feature in the new GI. It's making a big deal about the improved, faster air combat. So that probably means even more infinites. Rain has a new look and actually seems designed to look rather regal. He has a purple vest, natch. However, he has a cape, a big gold collar, and he has a cool dagger. An "original" character will be the main one you use in the konquest mode. He doesn't have a real name yet, but his costume looks like Han Zo Mon from WCW/nWo Revenge without a mask. Puzzle/Chess combat is gone, but there's a new mode replacing it. "...something new. Something strange. Something that will support up to eight players simultaneously online," GI states. Anya: You might be interested in this... http://openmortal.sourceforge.net/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Use Your Illusion 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2006 Boon really needs Tobias' help when looking to make 'original' characters, because he is out of his league. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Use Your Illusion 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2006 Or Namco's help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2006 A couple omens that disturb me: Armageddon is such a cliche and uninspired name. Often the products reflect the effort put into the name. See: Resident Evil Apocalypse, MK Annihilation. Also, no MK product that can be abbreviated as "MKA" is ever any good. See: Mortal Kombat Annihilation, Mortal Kombat Advance Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anya 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2006 Yeah I thought of that. Honestly I am more excited for the arcade version of Soulcalibur III than MKA. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Psycho_Freak Report post Posted January 18, 2006 MKA looks like it could be a great game but i was dissapointed with Decemption Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Use Your Illusion 0 Report post Posted September 21, 2006 Time to resurrect this one, Midway have released the official opening video for Mortal Kombat Armageddon. The entry at MK:Online can be found here http://www.mortalkombatonline.com/content/...ge.cds?id=89958 The video, available at IGN, is here http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/794/794354/vids_1.html Might I say, it's a pretty awesome intro, although MK always seems to have a really cool introductory video. Strykers pot-shot at Mileena is fucking hilarious. As was Jax's "What else you got?" *BANG* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anya 0 Report post Posted September 21, 2006 Hah that was good. Their big battle cutscenes usually are, like the SM intro. Ending it with Liu Kang vs. Shang Tsung was cool. If the endings where anywhere near like that the story would be worthwhile. Don't blame me this time for getting all hyped over this game when it ends up being weak. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Use Your Illusion 0 Report post Posted September 21, 2006 Lei Mei lasted all of two seconds. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SamoaRowe 0 Report post Posted September 21, 2006 If Stryker is back, this game will be mine. He's the all time most underrated MK character. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Black Lushus 0 Report post Posted September 21, 2006 Have they ever done a Mortal Kombat RPG? sorry if it's a dumb question guys, I'm an old timer and anything beyond MK Trilogy is a mystery to me... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anya 0 Report post Posted September 21, 2006 Nope. They've done a few spin offs though. Mythologies is a crappy 2D sidescroller about Sub-Zero. Special Forces is a 3D beat em up with Jax that is horrible. Shaolin Monks is a two player 3D beat em up that is a "retelling" of MK II and is decent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted September 29, 2006 On a related note--here's a bunch of fatalities from Way of the Warrior (3DO): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeWk2BaVESk&NR Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
