After a presentation video a few days ago, Liu Kang is once again the featured star of this new trailer of Mortal Kombat. The game will be released in April on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
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Also Louie should look like this
http://blog.sparkymat.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/...
(Unlike the first Liu Kang vs Kano / Reptile / Shang Tsung story trailer).
Unlike games such as SF4, MvC3, Tekken 6...etc. you name it, japanese fighting games, they have perfected the ohysical hit detection, but yet these guys are a mixed bag and it looks ugly when it happens.
Though I am still very interested in this game, will probably buy it.
PS. I hate the 90s Bruce Lee rejects, it was cool back then, now its just meh IMO.
And Liu Kang's "whooo" sounds i badly done unlike the other guy in SF4.
Ah well.
Unlike games such as SF4, MvC3, Tekken 6...etc. you name it, japanese fighting games, they have perfected the ohysical hit detection, but yet these guys are a mixed bag and it looks ugly when it happens.
Though I am still very interested in this game, will probably buy it.
PS. I hate the 90s Bruce Lee rejects, it was cool back then, now its just meh IMO.
And Liu Kang's "whooo" sounds i badly done unlike the other guy in SF4.
Ah well.
There's a reason you never see MK at big tournaments :P
Also yeah, i think tag team battles were done before DoA as well.
There's some tourney buzz around this one based on test versions, and it seems like the consensus that this has a shot at surplanting UMK3 as the go-to MK for high level play.
The fact that people are there, at the tournaments, playing MK3 doesn't mean it's part of the tournament though. I bet somebody probably took a break and played Monkey Island at some point, doesn't make it a tournamnet worthy game :P
There's absolutely a degree of funkyness to MK though, there's always been. I doubt the air combos were even deliberate in MK1, missing proper launchers until 2. 3 is utter combo madness, and canned combos/run button are still what keeps people firmly in either the MK2 or 3 camp. Funkyness is sorta alright as long as the engine doesn't explode, though, and I think it's a combination of its brand of funky and its silly americanised asian mysticism that gives it longevity as a franchise beyond gore and fatalities. I think in that regard, playing to nostalgia and fanservice with the later console games was a good move, but it got entangled in its own systems and probably a bit too complex for its own good with its stance transisitions and weapons and breakers, etc. It wasn't deep, it was just convoluted and impossible for newbies to enjoy, ridding it of all party appeal.
It's obviously lightyears behind a VF or SF due to the relentless arcade playtesting those games go through in japan and the complete non-genre it is for the majority of the western video game developer community who probably wouldn't know how to make an arcade fighting game if their life literally depended on it.
MK is kind of a western fighting game and while most would consider it to be a weak fighter, I believe it's actually a really great series. Just like JRPG and WRPG. You can't say Fallout 3 sucks because its not like FF7.
MK_Red, for what it is it's a decent enough series, it's when you start talking about it in competitive terms i think it starts falling apart due to balancing issues and even emergent gameplay that the japanese games have kind of ironed out even by the time MK2 came out. The games after MK3 were also complete disasters in that area, i men it took me and a friend like 2 hours to figure out infinite air juggles with a bunch of characters in MK Deception. If anything i think the high point of the series in the last 10 years or so was Shaolin Monks, which was actually quite fun with a buddy.
But hey, i'm not saying this game will suck. If anything i'm hoping that it's for once a decent western fighting game. I'm not expecting it to be comparable to Tekken or VF, but i'm hoping it moves in the right direction.
I must admit to getting a little bit of a kick out of the returning characters (Kabal! Sindel!) and some of the character design in Deception though, purely from a fanservice perspective. Shredder/Santa Sub-Zero! :D
I never actually played Armageddon however because they never released the Xbox version in europe for some reason. Or didn't.. make one? I can't really remember. I'd also moved and no longer had my nephew to play those games with, my conduit for mindless co-op/mp affairs like The Outfit and Dynasty Warriors... and the split screen multi in Red Faction for the ps2 for some inexplicable reason.