Comic book characters are not the future of the “Mortal Kombat”franchise, series co-creator Ed Boon mentioned this last summer at Comic Con in San Diego. Eventually, “Mortal Kombat” would return to its M-rated, violent roots.
He then went on to say;
“When we do the next M-rated game, it’ll have that much of a newness and a freshness of a first next-gen ‘Mortal Kombat,’” said Boon. “I think that element of newness is totally necessary with games, especially franchise games that have had five, six, seven versions. Without it, you see your sales slowly go away because people have felt like they’ve already played the game.”
“It’s not like ‘Mortal Kombat’ is teen [rated] forever!” he continued. “Like I said, I think when we do that [mature game], it’ll be a bigger deal than had we done it now just because, there would [only] be an interest of ‘Oh, what does ‘Mortal Kombat’ look like on next-gen? But now we have, ‘And it’s got Batman, it’s got Superman, and it’s a T-rated game and it plays totally different.’ [Then] we can say, ‘Now, back to the intensity, the gore, the over the top violence’ and we’ll probably even re-do the fighting [engine] again. I think, in the long run, it’s going to work out.”
We at DCvMk say; bring on the gore, now lets just hope that Midway survices long enough for this to be realised.
Midway announced today that Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe has shipped “approximately” 1.8 million units for Xbox 360 and PS3. Midway is taking the shipped figure as a positive sign for the franchise. Ed Boon, creative director for Mortal Kombat, stated the group is already working on the “next version of Mortal Kombat,” with details forthcoming.
Can Mortal Kombat save midway from deaths clutches…
Here is you chance to pummel the creators of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe senseless? Franchise co-creator Ed Boon and members of the development team will be on the PlayStation Network tonight, taking on all comers.
Tonight from 10PM Eastern to midnight, Ed Boon and a crack team of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe developers and testers will be hosting a special MK room in game, where players will be able to challenge and be challenged by the people that created the game. Producer Hector Sanchez will be on hand as well, and sends his greetings.
The Mortal Kombat development team is proud to announce a first time opportunity for members of our Kommunity to come online and face us in Mortal Kombat! We’ve never done anything like this before, and we’re looking forward to facing some of the top Kombatants on PSN. Maybe we’ll learn a thing or two!
Or maybe they will falalitysize you so hard they’ll get the voice over artist Hernan Sanchez to make jokes at your expense.
