Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Comments by Kristan Reed

Looks so bad.
Why oh why.

Marvel Vs Capcom cannot be beaten by MK Vs DC!

I must be getting old, why would Batman be fighting Sub Zero again?

Because subzero is cooler.

weak

Hope they recycle the cold puns from batman and robin for this

YOUR NOT GOING TO SEND ME TO THA COOLA

Nothing is going to beat Marvel Vs. Capcom 2. That game was incredible. Apart from the music, which is the worst I have ever heard in a game in my entire life.

I dont like the idea. As a MK fan im still going to buy it though. Hope the gameplay will be better than the last MK games.

Marvel Vs Capcom
Smash Bros Vs Sonic Vs Metal Gear
Soul Calibur Vs Star Wars

Mortal Kombat Vs DC...Yes...very original...

Next-up:
Tekken Vs Crash Bandicoot

I haven't been a fan of the MK games for a while, I liked some of the earlier 2D games, but this is going to drive the hardcore away like crazy...

Krap

What a terrible idea.

KPointless more like.

I couldn't even bring myself to read that preview properly, flicking through I saw things like 'No blood' and 'no finishing moves'

Is this just so I can fight as Batman? no thanks! as someone else said.....

......Krap!!!

Edit: Now if finishing moves and blood were in, imagine being Johnny Cage and punching Batmans head off!!! Now that would of been beyond awesome!

i wish it was good but it will be dreadful.

"Apart from the music, which is the worst I have ever heard in a game in my entire life. "
You can experience custom soundtracks in a tree-six-tee near you, now only 159.99.

Apparently Boon and co. have been keen on doing an MK crossover ever since MK4 was released in arcades over ten years ago, but for one reason or another met with resistance.

One reason or another? You mean, nobody wanted their franchise to be contaminated by grasping the other end of a turd?

EDIT: speelink

Without blood and fatalities the whole Mortal Kombat aspect has been completely neutered. There's no point at all! Just do a DC game instead, it'd be better.

EastEnders vs. Coronation Street

Pat Butcher's spinning bird kick - cert 18. :-(

Gonna take you for a ride.

360ers vs PS3ers: featuring nosiy obnoxious teenagers against Lacoste shirt wearers rednecks!

If so many of you think the idea is rubbish because there won't be any ott blood-y fatalities then i think that says alot about what qualities and draw the MK games actually had. Maybe this'll be an oppurtunity for them to make a decent fighting game rather than one that relies on "ooh look we r a adult game with lots of blud and gore".

last decent MK was MK3 :/

Can we have this game in a political theme instead?
Ken vs Boris
George Dubya vs Putin
Darling vs Osborne
Obama vs Clinton
WITH SPINE RIPPING!

game looks so odd graphically.

Fuck you midway!

Your down one MK fan right here, and many others elsewhere.

Just so little kids can play as superman and fight against people they've never heard of?

Sounds like shit to me, now if you could still do fatalities I'd play it, but not if it's some pussy version of MK.

MK was never pussy, why start now?

Next Week: Grand Theft Auto 4 without stealing cars.

wouldn't superman just hammer everyone anyway?

No beating Superman to death with his own cock = no sale.

Even though I'm one of those suckers who buys all the MK crap, I'll wait for the next proper one thanks.

Hell I'll buy it just so I can smash Batman's smug face in...

"If so many of you think the idea is rubbish because there won't be any ott blood-y fatalities then i think that says alot about what qualities and draw the MK games actually had. Maybe this'll be an oppurtunity for them to make a decent fighting game rather than one that relies on "ooh look we r a adult game with lots of blud and gore"."

But they are the qualities you look for in an MK game. If I wanted to play a deep fighter I'd pop Virtua Fighter in or something. MK's biggest draw is the blood and insane ultra-violence. Why bother making an MK without that? As I said earlier, if they just made it a DC game it'd make more sense and probably be a lot better.

The idea seems like a bit of a car-crash to me, but it'll be interesting to see how it all comes together.

i think it would have been that extra draw, to be able to do a fatality on Batman or Superman do a fatality! Just something different!

Why does DC care if we brutalise their characters? Such a shame :( hehe

"...won't stand still...", "...reinvent..." = drift with the ever growing mainstream c*ap = access more casual gamers = money = the end

What the hell is happening to all those kool fighting games I used to play as a kid. :(

Bring back Panzer kick boxing from the amiga!!! Random i know, but what a game!!

If DC didn't want blood and gore "tainting" their characters' good names, why the hell did they partner up with Mortal Kombat, whose only redeeming feature is in fact blood and gore?

Oh yeah, that's right, because they're the only other franchise in the world with characters of equal or excessive shittiness...

Next Week: Grand Theft Auto 4 without stealing cars.

This

I think that this cross-over can be a good idea. The characters of DC comics are various and some of them are also really dark like those of Mortal Kombat series, and the trailer looks pretty cool !!!!

"you won't see Superman feasting on Scorpion's still-warm organs for fun."

Hah.

Hell I would/will play this. But then I am heading towards early dementia.

Out of the way scallywags!

Unbelievable... from a truly gem of a game to this!

Agreed, the franchise does need a revival, but this is just taking the piss ! The very features which made this game an icon are being ditched for some good-2-shoes freak who wears his underwear inside out... ridiculous

This could work, bring back the fatalities, tighten up the game mechanics and remove DC !! Having said that, i would be cool if Scorpion would grab superman out of the air with the spear... "Get over here!!!!!!!", and toastie his arse.

Halo 3 Vs GTA4.

Drive around the city in a Warthog, killing hookers with plasma bombs...

This actualy sounds good..!

Hands off my idea...

what a bunch of cynics you all are ;)

Anyway, for the sake of continuity, shouldn't it be "Mortal Kombat Vs DK Universe"?

I think a little part of me has died inside.

hold on - isn't Superman more or less immortal? barring playing with kryptonite mittens noone'll win against him!!

Muted Kombat vs WC Universe.

Beyond that, the thing that I really dislike about this, is how Batman doesn't even look like it belongs in that scene its in. (How SHOULD a DC character appear in a Mortal Kombat world, and vice versa, is more the thing I'm focusing on, here.)

The characters should react to the brawling, be affected by, and affect the environment (not just with a sequence where someone, for instance is put through a wall), there ought to be facial expression of some kind - even for the ones in masks. The characters ought to believably, within the realm of comic fiction, inhabit the locations in which they fight.
What's shown looked plastic, especially offset against detailed animated backdrops..

@bdgr: Already covered. It's a long-established part of the Superman tale, that the hero also doesn't get on too well with magic, which MK characters absolutely revel in.

"billion dollar fighting franchise"

I'm sorry, I just couldn't concentrate after reading this. What franchise was he talking about? Street Fighter? Tekken?


Anyway, apart from the fact that whatever mechanic they crowbar in to make the game balanced is going to be lame as hell (what, all the MK characters have kryptonite pendants, or something?!), I honestly can't think of eight really famous DC characters who will probably be appearing. You've got Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, erm... I'm really struggling here...

...Green Arrow, Aquaman, and Martian Manhunter. Or Black Canary if they want another woman. In other words, the JLA.

Taking my geek hat off for a second, I agree this does sound daft - a lot dafter, for some reason, than Marvel vs. Capcom - but that was quite an interesting article, well written and trying to see the argument from both points of view. I'm hoping it'll end up daft but fun.

MK vs DC is EXACTLY as daft as MvC, with the exception that "Capcom of the Nineties" weaved Crack Cocaine levels of code when they had the license, where as Ed Boon maxed out on MK2.


also:


SUPERMAN HAS A WEAKNESS TO KRYPTONITE _AND_ M A G I C.


(Just to spell it out for those who keep bringing it up, despite the millions of others who keep mentioning it, not to mention that that fact is already mentioned in the article.)

Finally "wtf is Batman facing off with Sub Zero" etc.: My retort - wtf was with Ryu facing off with Wolverine. Doesn't matter, it's a game not an epic piece of literature.

can someone explain just what is wrong with doing (fighting game franchise A) vs. (fighting game franchise B)? Surely fans of both will buy it (I certainly remember people wishing they could combine Street Fighter and MK in the SNES/Mega Drive days), it avoids righteous indignation-inducing contraventions of lore as seems to be happening here and does not require compromises in terms of stuff like gore.

An MK game without blood and gore is like a killer instinct game without massive combos.

The reason why MvC worked because it was completely in style of being over the top. Super duper hadokens and crazy hulk smashes and everything. Pretty much like a comic world.
Whereas this is going for the cliched "dark, broody and gritty" feel. Being dark n gritty makes the game serious, which is just hard to fathom. Batman fighting in mi-air, flying through walls against subzero? Don't give us this crap about "the fate of the universe lies in thier hands" and "they fight against an unknown dark force", just bring them together and fight. Nobody cares about the story or setting (PS: Was there even a story to MvC?)

I would like to see a raiden vs superman battle though.

Amen Bodybuilder.

I just want to opposing sets of arguably popular characters to fuck each other up. No story needed.

Plus, you also get the bonus of having Batman face off with Superman.