Mortal Kombat for Wii

By Tom Bramwell Published 2 August, 2006

Boon for the system.

Super Smash Bros. won't be the only way to stand triumphant over your toppled friends waving the Wii remote control around - Midway's admitted that the next Mortal Kombat will appear on the new Nintendo console too.

GameSpot reports that a spokesperson confirmed Mortal Kombat: Armageddon's arrival on Wii in the first quarter of 2007. It will follow PS2 and Xbox versions, which are due out later this year.

There's no word on what the Wii version will be like, but judging by comments that MK co-creator Ed Boon made earlier this year, it still represents a breakthrough for the developer. In an interview with Game Informer unearthed by 1UP, Boon confessed he didn't know how you'd go about making a beat-'em-up for Wii.

"There's not five or six buttons to give you all of these functions, so maybe they will compensate but tilting one way for blocking or another way for attack. But that is so dramatically different. So it will either be one of the biggest hits in the world or a big failure. I certainly hope it does well," he said of the control issue. Then again, he did say this before E3 and the "classic" controller's unveiling.

Midway is also working on a PSP version called Mortal Kombat: Unchained. Check out our previous coverage for more on both.

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Comments (22) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Blerk #1 6 years ago

    Super Smash Bros and MK on the Wii?

    /draws thick black line through 'Wii' on shopping list

  • skillian #2 6 years ago

    ^hehe

    MK on Wii = teh awesome

  • yiannis #3 6 years ago

    "Then again, he did say this before E3 and the "classic" controller's unveiling."

    uhm shouldn't this article be published back then? (maybe it has been but i don't remember) I see this a lot lately in gaming sites; uncovering interviews and such since E3. Aren't these news, (in general not EG), a bit stale, or is there some kind of agreement to not tell until a certain date?

    cheers

  • TheMoonRat #4 6 years ago

    Well, back then Mortal Kombat wasn't confirmed for the wii. Now it is, a previous quote from Ed Boon on the control issue seems reasonable to me

  • Stickman #5 6 years ago

    Innovation.

    Fun.

  • smelly #6 6 years ago

    So essentially this will be the GC port of the PS2 version that would have surfaced had the GC not been hit over the back of the head with a shovel.


    Would make sense, but more as an xbox conversion with souped up gfx.


  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #7 6 years ago

    There's no word on what the Wii version will be like...

    Shit, I'd warrent.

  • Keso #8 6 years ago

    Just so you know, Super Smash Bros doesn't use the wii wand, it uses the retro controller. ;)

  • Sensiblo #9 6 years ago

    Yeah Mortal Kombat that is pretty cool, hey it's almost as cool as SPORE!!!!!!!
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    Oh look, I lied. It's not nearly as good as Spore. However, in other news: Spore.

  • smelly #10 6 years ago

    Why are people getting uppity about a wii conversion of an xbox/ps2 game?

    NEARLY EVERY decent 360 game so far has just been a souped up conversion from the xbox/ps2 version.

    What's the problem?

  • the_jamaster #11 6 years ago

    Great news. Mortal Kombat is one of the better fighting games IMO I will be looking forward to this.

  • Tomo #12 6 years ago

    Blerk, you actually picked up the highlighter. A sort of Freudian slip perhaps?

  • Kami #13 6 years ago

    MK has, this gen, been a bit of a surprise package... not the best of fighter but by no means the worst like it used to be.

    Armageddon seems like Trilogy was, a collection of everyone with a thinly disguised plot, only now with added "Make-your-own-fighter" mode. Which is usually generic and boring but I wouldn't put anything past MK these days.

    It could turn out great on the Wii - or it could end up shite. Time will tell, but to be perfectly honest - I wouldn't rock the boat with the fighters just yet, and use good ol' joypad goodness instead of wii-mote love.

  • Hypocee #14 6 years ago

    Yah - Super Smash Brothers uses the "classic" controller and possibly the GC controller. Professional Game Journalist. :)

    It's easy to imagine a beat-em-up that uses only the accelerometer and a couple of buttons to give intuitive and responsive control...but for me at least, it's hard to nail down any workable specifics. I hope they save that kind of thing for second-wave experimentation.

  • DaveyJ666 #15 6 years ago

    I hope this is gonna be a good instalment of MK, I haven't really enjoyed any of the series since MK II on the good old SNES, ah memories.....

  • Chim_chimma_nee! #16 6 years ago

    em. ee. aitch.

  • smelly #17 6 years ago

    Just like the DS, just because it CAN use the controller doesnt mean it should (or will).

    I see this no different than the xbox ports the 360 is currently getting.

  • Sorb #18 6 years ago

    "he did say this before E3 and the "classic" controller's unveiling"

    What does the "classic" controller look like? Is it the Gamecube controller?

  • ekko #19 6 years ago

    Mortal Kombat is crap. And when they release Mario Kart for the Wii it will now add to confusion of using acronyms.

  • soanso #20 6 years ago

    as far as I can see there's 7 buttons on the Wii controller in nunchuck mode.
    At least there was 7 on the last pic I saw of it. It'd mean the dpad doubling as 4 buttons but ont he N64 the 4 C buttons doubled as a D pad so.....

    Honestly I can't understand why developers should have any trouble thinking up control schemes for Wii games. Do any of them ever think of mapping actions to buttons or do they just copy what someone else did before them.
    Still maybe that expllains things like the trick moves in the old Fifa N64 games. 2 of 'em were possible but the rest you needed 4 fingers.

  • PAUL_CERULA #21 6 years ago

    does anybody else think the wii hype as really died out.

  • smelly #22 6 years ago

    does anybody else think the wii hype as really died out.

    Not as much as the ps3 hype no..

    (spotted many ps3 announcements recently? Me neither).