MK vs DC: Videogame Mash-Up

Holy cow. Mortal Kombat and the DC Universe? Seriously?!

I’m guessing most of you guys have seen the teaser trailer of Batman beating up Sub-Zero, and, while I admit that it looks fun, I’m not sure it will be, but, as long as it has the MK name, we could expect brutal takedowns, hilarious/violent finishing moves and, well, just a huge, gigantic amount of unlockables.

From what I hear — MK 8 (Worlds Collide) will be MK without fatalities. That’s because DC wouldn’t want their heroes to be pulling heads off characters from a video game franchise that was built upon gruesome violence. (a Superman fatality??!) While it’s still possible, it would just take a whole gigantic amount of paperwork to do it.

Even if they do pull it off, what would secure the game from an M rating from the ESRB?

Video games, after all, is a business — the more narrow the audience, (who will be able to get it) equals less money.

So how can Midway / DC just balance this game in order to appeal to old-time MK fans and the DC comic book fans? I’m thinking they’ll go the traditional crossover story route — mind control or “fate of the universe unless you win” type of scenarios in order to allow superheroes to act out of character.

Like you, this just intrigued me enough to geek over.

~ by thebiglife on April 22, 2008.