Mortal Kombat 8, starting from scratch. Blame Epic/Gears

Sorry if this is on the late-ish side, but perhaps it was because people have been focusing on Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, this might have slipped under the radar… until CVG brought it up recently. And we’re still wondering WHY this slipped under the radar until now.

Don’t over-react: starting from scratch isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “Everything is getting trashed. We’re reinventing everything from the ground up. We really think that’s needed,” Ed Boon tells GameInformer back during MGD ’07, about the Midway Games MK team’s concept for the next-gen Mortal Kombat 8. “We’re not going to have three fighting styles, we’re not going to have the same punches and kicks and the same kind of control scheme.”

Never mind what it doesn’t have: guess what it will have, according to CVG: Epic Games‘ Unreal Engine 3. Yes, Ed did a Squeenix. And there’s one game to blame – er, to credit for MK8‘s new look. “Our goal, graphically, with this game is to be as gritty… To me, when I saw Gears of War, I was like, ‘Holy s***! That’s the look that we’ve been talking about… Visually, that’s what we want to do.'”

If that chainsaw ever makes a cameo as a Fatality… Well, you now know who or what to turn to when the blood starts to fly in MK8. Boon gives a “Novemberish time of 2008” estimate for the next-gen Kombat to kick in. (As there are no known specifics yet about which console/s it will appear in, we’ve gone and dropped it in all three next-gen consoles, to be sure. Please put all debates on hold until we get firmer reports about 8‘s destination.)

Mark Rein must be tickled pink into a Babality.

Sorry if this is on the late-ish side, but perhaps it was because people have been focusing on Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, this might have slipped under the radar… until CVG brought it up recently. And we’re still wondering WHY this slipped under the radar until now.

Don’t over-react: starting from scratch isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “Everything is getting trashed. We’re reinventing everything from the ground up. We really think that’s needed,” Ed Boon tells GameInformer back during MGD ’07, about the Midway Games MK team’s concept for the next-gen Mortal Kombat 8. “We’re not going to have three fighting styles, we’re not going to have the same punches and kicks and the same kind of control scheme.”

Never mind what it doesn’t have: guess what it will have, according to CVG: Epic Games‘ Unreal Engine 3. Yes, Ed did a Squeenix. And there’s one game to blame – er, to credit for MK8‘s new look. “Our goal, graphically, with this game is to be as gritty… To me, when I saw Gears of War, I was like, ‘Holy s***! That’s the look that we’ve been talking about… Visually, that’s what we want to do.'”

If that chainsaw ever makes a cameo as a Fatality… Well, you now know who or what to turn to when the blood starts to fly in MK8. Boon gives a “Novemberish time of 2008” estimate for the next-gen Kombat to kick in. (As there are no known specifics yet about which console/s it will appear in, we’ve gone and dropped it in all three next-gen consoles, to be sure. Please put all debates on hold until we get firmer reports about 8‘s destination.)

Mark Rein must be tickled pink into a Babality.