Bloody fatalities to return in next Mortal Kombat

  • Posted June 20th, 2009 at 00:33 EDT by
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With Midway’s financial problems, people have been wondering what would happen to the Mortal Kombat series. Regardless of what happens to Midway, it seems that MK co-creator Ed Boon is convinced Mortal Kombat will return, and this time with bloodier, better fatalities.

Tentatively titled MK9, there isn’t much info on the series except for what Boon reveals through his twitter feed. Many posts are jokes, like this tweet: “No the fatalities we are capturing...sorry, kapturing are for the next MK9: Attack of the Nuns: Get in the Habbit !!”

Others seem serious: “Motion capturing special moves & fatalities today….they are kind of sick !!”

The last entry in the series, Mortal Kombat vs. D.C. Universe, was rated 'T for Teen' and featured fatalities that were less bloody than the rest of the series. Most fans find the old fatalities much cooler -- erm, kooler.

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  1. BloodReign | NewOlman

    • 12:34am BST - June 20th, 2009

    this is the way mortal kombat should be: violent! lol

  2. dra0gon1 | dra0gon1

    • 12:44am BST - June 20th, 2009

    kool

  3. subwaydesign

    • 12:59am BST - June 20th, 2009

    i've been waiting a good mortal kombat since 3. that was the last of the titans.

    hopefuly 9 will bring some of the goods back...

  4. Syphon_Filter | Syphon_filter2

    • 1:00am BST - June 20th, 2009

    Nice.

  5. xxIvErx

    • 1:16am BST - June 20th, 2009

    They should bring this back along with making it 2D. I think they should make it like the old ones.

  6. Brokentusk81

    • 1:16am BST - June 20th, 2009

    Yeah all of the MKs have sucked since 3. And MK2 was the best. Why do they insist on making it goofy and cartoony? Why not something more akin, in terms of "realism" akin to Tekken, Virtual Fighter, or even UFC. That would be a revolution of the franchise.

  7. Free_Agent

    • 1:19am BST - June 20th, 2009

    @5

    Exactly my thoughts as well. It's been proven that 2d fighters stay succesfull by keeping it 2d! SF4, KOF12, Blazblue, these are all 2d because they have historically been 2d, and it doesn't mean they can't look great either. Tekken can remain the king of 3d fighters, I think MK will have much more success with another 2d game.

  8. acidjoker

    • 1:42am BST - June 20th, 2009

    blooooooooooooooooooooooood = mk

  9. 1solidsnake | solid1snake67

    • 1:57am BST - June 20th, 2009

    i hope we see Repitle,scorpion, and sub zero.  like in MK 2    bring back the baby fatalities  and friendship and regular fatalities.     if the game looks awesome and way better than MK VS DC i will buy it.   i hope there's online rooms lik MK Vs Dc, i want them to introduce new charachters too.    

    motion capturing will be awesome!  i'll be watching what they do to this game!

  10. HARDCOREPS3

    • 2:06am BST - June 20th, 2009

     bored

  11. Ryuuchi10 | Ryuuchi10

    • 2:09am BST - June 20th, 2009

    If it matches up to the level of Mortal Kombat II...

  12. DigitalBeast

    • 2:10am BST - June 20th, 2009

    @10 And stupid? O.o

    I think there was a legend about games curing boredom. Not sure I believe that one... UGH...

  13. Sonan | Sonan

    • 2:34am BST - June 20th, 2009

    I loved MK2, thought MK3 was okay, and loved Deadly Alliance.

    I new fighting system (MK vs. DC wasn't new) could really help the series.

  14. ladyx

    • 2:34am BST - June 20th, 2009

    do you really still trust MK games??

  15. Jules909 | jules909

    • 3:02am BST - June 20th, 2009

    If they can do it like Capcom did with SF4, a modern day SF2 that would be cool.

  16. JMelillo57 | jmelillo57

    • 4:32am BST - June 20th, 2009

    Bring it back to the way it was.

  17. bahamot

    • 5:20am BST - June 20th, 2009

    But will MK9 have Helios head splitting action? :p

  18. NeauxFear | Shadeaux

    • 5:25am BST - June 20th, 2009

    @  5

    That would be cool. Keep it traditional like King of Fighters.

  19. hvnlyswrd08

    • 5:33am BST - June 20th, 2009

    The Blooody Fatalities were the Best! i'll like To See them Back but In my Opinion, the Best of the Mortal Kombat series Were the Early Games with the The Whole 2D Fighting.

  20. SolidDrake86

    • 6:22am BST - June 20th, 2009

     yea . MK vs DC was awesome

  21. FireSol | FireSol(EU)/FireSolus(US)

    • 7:06am BST - June 20th, 2009

     mk9...all mk, after going 3d suck ((((

    bring it back to 2d, and ill get it

  22. Mo-green28 | Mo-green28

    • 9:25am BST - June 20th, 2009

    When will Midway and Capcom finaaly come tolight and realize how much money Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat would make.

  23. taurus82 | taurus82

    • 9:30am BST - June 20th, 2009

    I haven't played a good MK since Shaolin Monks, they should make a new one of those!!

  24. princevegeta1980

    • 10:52am BST - June 20th, 2009

    The bloodier, the better!

  25. psycho_mantis | makaveli_71

    • 1:04pm BST - June 20th, 2009

    Korrect!

  26. psmgamer | Demonhunter84

    • 4:46pm BST - June 20th, 2009

    About time! The last good MK game was MK Deadly Alliance in my opinion hopefully it has alot of characters from the original MK returning maybe a prequel before MK2 and MK3? The fatalities I would care less about as I never has a fan of them since most of them were not good or bloodly enough. Hopefully this MK game has DLC for it.

  27. mortada

    • 10:27pm BST - June 20th, 2009

    come on bring out the mk we know not that DC stuff that ruined the game! and take your time to get back on track

  28. Gemini405 | gemini405

    • 10:57pm BST - June 20th, 2009

    Mortal Kombat is done give it up Ed Boon.

  29. PS3NUT

    • 11:26pm BST - June 20th, 2009

    yea take it back to old skoool!!! ps3 has the power...lets see it get very violent

  30. theunleashed666

    • 2:30am BST - June 22nd, 2009

    omg!!!! yeah!!!!!!!!!!  mortal kombat!!!!!!!!!!

  31. rockyj

    • 12:02am BST - June 23rd, 2009

    yes a new mortal kombat game yes. work i hope ed boon work hard on this game make it fun . i  donot enjoy the last few mortal kombat games  deadly alliance, deceptoin ,armageddon and lol mk vs dc was cheapshot at capcom vs marvel well that my thougth.    

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