Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe E3 Trailer
I’ve been sitting(stewing) on this for a few days now. For anyone who hasn’t seen it, Midway released a trailer for Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe at E3 this year:
I’m still not impressed by such a blatant grab for attention, but it look like they might actually pull this off. Not completely mind you, but it’s starting to look like I will be less embarassed about buying this than I originally thought.
Things to note from the trailer:
Stages
- stages have been taken from both sides of the spectrum, I’m not quite sure what this says for the future of stage fatalities, but rooftops are always handy *thumbs up*
- you can fight in hell *thumbs up*
- appear to be somewhat interactive *thumbs up*
Characters
- Superman
- Batman
- Catwoman
- The Flash
- Sonya
- Sub Zero
- Scorpion
- Shang Tsung
Random thoughts
- The busty women have tight, physics defying outfits *thumbs up*
- The fight between Superman and Shang appears to be different to the regular kombat. It’s a lot closer, the blows are targeted and Superman parries *raised eyebrow*
- Air fighting - looks slow, clunky and has never really impressed me *thumbs down*
- Scorpion’s flamer fatality *thumbs OMFG up*
I wonder if Midway had actually learned it’s lesson after the huge backlash from the Mortal Kombat Armageddon fatality system and pulled it back to the traditional ones. I can imagine the Kreate a Fatality system being in place for the DC Heroes(limited to strikes, not rips), who are rumoured to have a ‘beatdown’ finishers instead of fatalities, because true heroes wouldn’t commit such violent acts.
I’m already looking forward to the next trailer and hopefully a bit more info on the gameplay. If it’s anything like this I might even look over the fact that the reason for worlds colliding was “magic”.
