Orgasmic Mash-ups.

The counter over at noob.com is finally down to 00:00:00 and I was extremely dissapointed to find that no new info was released. The site is ran by Mortal Kombat producer Ed Boon so speculation was that a new MK game would be announced.

However, my dissapointment was short lived, no sooner had the timer ran out that GiantBomb.com released some rumour and speculation, that Microsoft would most definitley not comment on.

But there’s already a healthy amount of speculation out there about the next MK, with most of the juiciest rumors pegging the game as Mortal Kombat vs. DC Comics. Apparently GamesRadar ran (and quickly removed) some sort of header image on its site called “MKDC blog–article_image” and it has a silhouette in it that looks very Superman-like.

Now Jeff Gerstmann's super sleuthing has got me very excited, if not a tad wary. the mere concept of two amazing things coming together to be one is absolutely mindblowing, however upon deeper thought and put within context of a game it all falls to pieces.

First of all, where does the camera sit. Now I am one of the belief that if superheroes are going to fight it should be in a War of the Monsters fashion, a mass, all-out, city-encompassing affair; after all these people are superheroes. This however would be totally impossible with Mortal Kombat characters. How could Liu Kang travel at the rate of Superman, a man who can bicycle-kick against a man "who can leap building in a single bound".

Now I think common sense would dictate for Mortal Kombat to go either the Street Fighter "3D but not really" look or the Virtua Fighter "total 3D" look. This of course presents another problem, how do you explain that a man who can fly, or a man who can can shapeshift is staying confined to one arena.

Another problem is roster selection, I would hope that all of the Mortal Kombat classics characters would remain; as for DC would they go as far as choosing Vertigo characters such as Hellblazer, they have to choose both marketable characters and stay away from some DC's *ahem* less than stellar personas.

So, I suppose my initial excitement may be wearing off, but I still think it's cool that sometime in the next two years Batman will be fighting Raiden; unless Boon pulls a UMK3 on us.

PS: DC ths is how it's done.

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Altogether now; PROTON CANNON