Warner Bros have announced a new Mortal Kombat game - continuing the current extremely annoying trend of these remakes/reboots/new editions to just use the same name as the original, it is called Mortal Kombat:

The newest chapter of the iconic fight franchise marks a triumphant return to the series mature presentation and a reinvention of its classic 2D fighting mechanic. Driven by an all new graphics engine, the fan favourite Fatality is back and presented in more gory detail than ever before. In addition, Mortal Kombat introduces a number of new game-play features including tag team and the deepest story mode of any fighting game. Players can choose from an extensive lineup of the game's iconic warriors and challenge their friends in traditional 1 vs. 1 matches, or take on several new game modes.

The trailer shows off a little bit of cinematics as well as a stack of in-game action, including a bunch of typically awesome and gruesome fatalities.

You can check out the trailer below or download it right now. For those that have to have their trailers in HD, there's a gigantor 580mb HD version available for download as well. I'm sure more information will be available at E3 so stay tuned! promoted/edited forum item

OH awesome, first the short film, now a new game!

last edited by thermite at 10:15:37 11/Jun/10

Edit: Feel a little sheepish...

^lol. he even says its for the game, not the movie in the thread title.
so i guess you better start laughing at yourself.
i cant wait for this game........


last edited by lewd at 10:03:25 11/Jun/10

lol double fail.

Hey glynd I think someone already posted a thread about the new Mortal Kombat movie.

Edit: everyone else's edits make my joke not seem like a joke and makes me look super lame :(

No, this is a new game annoncement trailer. glynd if you don't mind I'm going to edit the crap out of your post once we have the trailer up for mirroring

No, this is a new game annoncement trailer. glynd if you don't mind I'm going to edit the crap out of your post once we have the trailer up for mirroring

go for gold.

How crap is their website. Registered a domain just to redirect to farcebook

sick, team battle looks good.

the only reason this will lose is from having a limited number of characters. needs to be like armageddon with 50+ characters to chose from.

Is the sound on the trailer completely out of sync with the picture for anyone else?

Edit: f*** yeah, that looks awesome, and it has Sektor!

Is the sound on the trailer completely out of sync with the picture for anyone else?

argh, yes. Sorry, I checked it quickly and it looked OK, obviously I didn't watch long enough. Fixing now!

edit: fixed

All togther now:

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRTAAAAAAAAAAAAL COOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

/cues techno music.

haha I still remember the theme song from the first MK movie... so so bad. Awesome game though.

haha I still remember the theme song from the first MK movie... so so bad.

lies

haha I still remember the theme song from the first MK movie... so so bad.

lies

You've asked for it:



oooooooooooooojeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhh

holy f*** that is awesome

updated with the HD trailer: http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/52988 580mb of huge

Sound still seems out of sync for me.

That looks pretty awesome for MK standards.

I just don't dig their animations for some reason, yeah they're fluid and s*** but the style weirds me out.

Just watched it again, that Johnny Cage fataility where it does the CSI zoom in and shows the internal organs getting pulverised and bones breaking is so damn sweet. And the Kung Lao one where hes dragging Sub-Zero towards his spinning hat is classic MK awesomeness. I just hope they're actually going for an adult rating with this one, and as such don't hold back on the gore. MK should not be pitched at a PG level.

agree. the last one was f***in horrible, and only had like 8 characters....

MA rating with 50+ characters pls WB

Wow, that looked awesome. That was pretty much Mortal Kombat 2 and 3 made 3D. So many recognisable arenas and characters. f*** yeah, I'm pumped for this.

all these games need to develop their character lists imo, the last few tekkens, mk's, street fighters etc have all just upgraded the graphics a bit, added no new modes or anything interesting and have maybe added 1-2 new characters in.

That was cool.

I am fine with just the classic characters actually, I actually lost interest in the MK games with more characters, a lot which were just variants of the existing characters or robot version, etc...

so it's 3d but 2d like street fighter 4 right?

Looks like it, yep

all these games need to develop their character lists imo, the last few tekkens, mk's, street fighters etc have all just upgraded the graphics a bit, added no new modes or anything interesting and have maybe added 1-2 new characters in.

I had no gripes with what they did with Street Fighter 4. In fact, all of the newer MK games have been pretty different to the originals, so this is looking like it actually will be a change. Looks like it's going back to its roots, which it strayed too far from, imo. Looks like they're taking it in the right direction.

Finally, as stated it looks like a prettier mk2/3 - excellent taking it back to it's roots!

I am fine with just the classic characters actually, I actually lost interest in the MK games with more characters, a lot which were just variants of the existing characters or robot version, etc

yep same, i'm pretty happy just playing with lui kang and raiden

god this thread makes me want to play mortal kombat now

last edited by paveway at 11:57:59 12/Jun/10

i just went out and bought a ps3 in anticipation of this game and also gran turismo 5

yeah can't wait for this, MK1,2,3 on snes/megadrive was the effing s***.

If you're hanging out for some old school MK, check the PSN marketplace. Ultimate MK3 is on the Xbox Live marketplace, and I'd imagine its probably on the PSN one as well.

And the Kung Lao one where hes dragging Sub-Zero towards his spinning hat is classic MK awesomeness.

Agreed, plus how awesome does the arena look in that one.

Loving the return to 2D and classic characters, makes this the first MK since 4 I'm looking forward to. The gore is indeed a welcome return, but needs way more blood for that classic MK feel!

Can't believe we have to wait till 2011 for this :(

I didn't really like MK4 that much, from what I remember. That's the one where they first introduced the different fighting styles and all that. While I remember it being kind of cool in MK: Deception, I don't remember it feeling very good back then. MK3/Ultimate was the last MK game I got truly excited for. This one looks like it's shaping up to be the next.

Nah, MK4 didn't have different fighting styles, it was the first 3d one (and the last one to show up in arcades). It was the one where they introduced weapons and it had hilarious bone breaker moves.

But yeah, I went off MK when it started becoming more free-form and multiple fighting styles and stuff, I mean I still played them, but it didn't really feel like MK anymore, and I never really got hooked on any of them. Ironically, the MK game that has felt most like MK to me recently was the DC vs MK game, I really enjoyed that. The PG rating and weak ass fatalities kinda sucked, but it was a fun game and was more like traditional MK.

So I'm curious, I just had a look at the press release and noticed this "Mortal Kombat is being developed by the newly re-named NetherRealm Studios", so if they are newly renamed, what developer did they used to be? Seems like they exist now purely to make Mortal Kombat games though, cos their name and their logo are very MK specific.

http://www.netherrealm.com/assets/nrs_logo.png

they used to be warner bros games chicago and midway chicago.

Looks like midway went bankrupt last year, lots of controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Games
they were one of these companies that would buy smaller gaming studios only to f*** up and shut them down, they bought one in australia and shut it just 4 months later

the MK game that has felt most like MK to me recently was the DC vs MK game, I really enjoyed that. The PG rating and weak ass fatalities kinda sucked, but it was a fun game and was more like traditional MK.

game was fun, but the pg rating f***in ruined it and the fact that they had maybe 8 characters made the game enjoyable for maybe a week.

lol

hahahahahahahaahhahahah that was the most boring fight in the world

wow, that video was f***ing cheesy

Holy s***, the host of that is the guy who played Soap in Lock Stock!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002077/

I used to be really fascinated with how Mortal Kombat was made, I had the magazine these scans are from; http://www.huguesjohnson.com/scans/mk2-behind-scenes/

Interesting tidbit I didn't know is that in 1994 Daniel Pesina, who played Johnny Cage (the guy in that video), and Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Reptile, Smoke, etc... (which are just palette swaps of the same costume) got fired because he did an ad for another (failed) fighting game as Johnny Cage:

http://powet.tv/powetblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bloodstormpesina.jpg

What a douche for doing that, if you didn't already pick up on him being a douche from that video I posted. Anyway that's why MKIII didn't have all his characters in it. I think this has a lot to do with why the MK stories always have Johnny Cage being killed off.


last edited by thermite at 21:50:12 14/Jun/10

IGN have a writeup about the new MK game, its playable at E3 apparently, and its sounds SO f***ING AWESOME. Man, I want this game right now. Some bits of the preview that stood out for me:

Yes, the team have modeled each character's insides for the X-Ray attacks, and the result looks great. Because hey, when Johnny Cage goes to town on an opponent's bathing suit area (an actual move), or Sub Zero reaches into an enemy's chest to freeze then shatter their liver (also an actual move – bless this game), you want their insides to look their best.

and, regarding fatalities

A few that stood out – Mileena ripping the head off Nightwolf then drinking blood from it, Sektor firing off multiple rockets at Kung Lao who explodes into several big chunks, which are then each targeted by rockets leaving little but a fine red mist, and Scorpion slicing Cage at the waist then neck, leaving him still standing, before kicking out his mid-section. So good.

I love the approach they're taking with it, it sounds like they're really committed to delivering an awesome, oldschool MK experience. It sounds like they aren't going to have some of the more silly stuff like friendships and babalities, but this quote still drove home to me the passion and vision they have for making it awesome:

"Certainly this Mortal Kombat game we're taking a little bit more seriously, so we're probably not going to have a friendship move and whatnot," says Ed, "but if we were to do something like that we're definitely not going to document it. That's what I think was part of the fun of the old games. 'You turned the guy into a baby!' What? Or, 'you pulled out a rainbow'! What the? It's such an odd thing. We really want these events – if they happen – to be almost rumors. That's a big part of what Mortal Kombat was. The question mark about - what else is in this game?"

Sounds like they'll make it so that the code to the secret finishing moves is random, and maybe the finishing moves are random too, to the point where some will be very rare to happen.