Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Comments by Matt Edwards

this game just seems about 5 years out of date..
and Deathstroke? Deathstroke!?

I'd buy a Marvel vs DC game...

Creepy Lizard: "Deathstroke? Deathstroke!?"

Hush you. Deathstroke can take out the JLA if he feels like it (He nearly took down 7 of the bastards at the same time during Idenity Crisis), hes not the worlds greatest assasin for nothing y'know.

Anyway, two points on the review. Good on you mentioning Supes Broken Ground Pound Infinite, though you forgot that Green Lantern's kombo breaker launches the opponent into a juggle also, which is fairly cheap (Jax has an infinite as well but nobody cares about Jax). Midway patched out infinites and abusable techniques in Deception and Armageddon on the Xbox when it issued a netcode patch for both. So the cheap stuff wont last very long.

As for the Flash, he has insane move start-up priority (Of course, He is the Flash) and can rock people if the other guy is good, but he has to do a lot of specials to kickstart his chains and he is totally vunerable when a special whiffs or is blocked. Play as Scorpion and use the Hell Fire summon move to really piss Flash players off (OrJokers Boxing glove if you really, really want to piss them off).Real fighters play with Captain Marvel though. The Kingdom Come style bearhug is awesome.

Finally, Interesting you bought up Evo as well. Some of the tourney players at SRK reckon that if Midway gets rid of the two mentioned glitches and nerfs the Flash a little. It could do good as a Brawl style tourney game as the rest of the game is much more balanced than previous MK's and a lot of characters have a good amount of Combo potential. Might be an intersting side game.

If the human race hasn't evolved far enough to have predicted that this was always going to be a lukewarm turd then we are absolutely fucked when it comes to solving global warming.

Mortal Kombat 2 is better than any other game on the planet ever, and that's including Street Fighter 2.

Anyone who disagrees with me is, quite frankly, an imbecile.

UMK3 is still the one, and it's 400 pts on XBLA.

I'm sorted. This is for the bargain bin.

MK VS DCU hasnt been relased in Europe exept for the UK because of some issues between the developer and the publisher.

New release date is 21.12.08

this game is brill. 6/10 is still a good score for a dying genre. i've never had so much fun as breaking catwoman's arms with scorpion, the silly bint.

great endings and artwork, music is top and the characters look ace. considering how bad this could (and probably should) have been, Midway have really delivered the goods on this one for me.

Play shipped my 360 and wireless adaptor (same order number) seperately, so my 360 was all but worthless until the wifi arrived. When it did arrive, it wasnt a wifi adaptor but a PSP charging dock. I sent it back (after calling Play to obtain the RMA needed) having to sort the postage myself, and a month later still had not been refunded. Useless idiots, never using them again no matter how good the deal.

@Robot Rocker
admittedly, i do only have a vague memory of buying a deathstroke miniseries many moons ago and all I can recal is that he was some kind of zombie cyborg or something...?

RE: PLAY

You know, I've never had any problems with play.com but I'm beginning to wonder if people are buying from Play Traders and this is the root of the problem. Are you buying from play.com themselves or using the "Buy It New or Used" option? Because if it's the latter, then you're buying through the site, not from them and using an independent seller...

Actually, mortal kombat 2 was a great beat em up. And MK vs DC is a seriously good game, something I frankly was surprised to find out upon buying it and playing it yesterday. Let me tell you why is that...

First, there is a great deal of balancing that has been done, and it shows. I found no seriously overpowered characters. Yes there are a few exceptions, actually a couple of em. But it is not something we can hold against, since every beat em up I have ever played had at least a few imbalancies.

Second, the story, the endings, are well done and provide a nice comic feel to the whole experience (I havent seen all of them yet, since we mainly spent time with friends playing versus).

As for the third... that is one I would love to know what others think about... mortal kombat vs dc retains one critical quality that defines -according to my tastes at least- how good or bad a beat em up is. I am talking about button mashing. It was something that made mortal kombat 2 one of the absolute best games of its genre. It required skill, and you could not bash out combinations without knowing what you are doing, and still sometimes win. That's also the case with street fighter 2. I am personally a ken-only player in sf2, and almost always sub-zero ine MK2. In both games I always knew that If I faced an opponent who was not up to my skill level, he would lose. No matter how many random key sequences he would unleash.

That is rare in 3D fighters. MK vs DC though manages to keep this feeling of actually achieving a skill level that won't be leveled to the ground by a trigger happy first-time player.

PS : Eurogamer, maybe you should do your homework better before you ask questions like "was it the fatalities, or was there actually a good game in Mortal Kombat?". Just like you know there is a good game in street fighter 2, send some reviewers to play MK II. Apparently they havent done so yet.

PS2 : I never thought I would defend a game called MK vs DC...

PS3 : +1000 for a HD remake of MK Trilogy.