New Mortal Kombat Seen at E3

E3 2010 introduced us to the ninth installment in a story franchise that started in 1992 as an arcade game.  This installment is a flashback to the events of Mortal Kombat 1 through 3.  It was developed by NetherRealm Studios who was formerly Midway Games.  It will use the mainly characters and maps from those games.  This game has 2d backgrounds with 3d characters.  This meshes well and the game looks beautiful. 

When Glen and I got into the showing of Mortal Kombat, Ed Boon told us that this Mortal Kombat will be back to the blood, punishing fatalities, and combos.  He also said that this will be the most fast paced Mortal Kombat yet.  Unlike combos of the past this game's combos are more about creating your own by linking special moves and normal punch-kick combos together.

Brand new to this game is a mechanic call the Super Meter.  The Super Meter can be used to add extra power to your special attacks, a combo breaker, or charge it up to level 3 and unleash a annihilating attack called the "X-Ray Mode".  When executing the X-Ray Mode attack it zooms in on the character's bones, spine, and organ.  It shows the bones breaking, the spinal cord twisting, or the organ squishing against the body.  This looked nasty and automatically makes people yell and scream. 

In addition to the Super Meter mechanic,  Mortal Kombat has also added a tag team system of fighting.  By using the tag team system you can chain your combos between the two characters.  The tag team adds a different level of difficulty to the game.

Another cool thing was the blood system in the game.  It has a progressive wound in the game.  The more times a character gets hit in the same area the darker the blood and the more cut up they get.  It stays like that until you win the fight not just the round. 

It has a lot of characters and one DLC character so far.  The list of characters we saw and that weren't grey'd out were johnny cage, kung lao, mileena, nightwolf, reptile, sektor, scorpion, sub-zero.  Boon is aiming for around 26 characters in this game. 

The release date is supposed to be sometime in 2011.  It will be on the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Written By Mike Monsees             


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