Boon starts from scratch: next Mortal Kombat will be
- April 23, 2007 13:05 PM PST
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Midway's Ed Boon reveals his next Mortal Kombat project, and it looks like an Unreal-powered revolution of sorts is on the way.
By Eugene Huang
No more Babalities? Are you serious?!?
Yes, apparently.
It looks like Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon is through joking around. In a recent interview with CVG, Boon stated that the next fighting game to come from the Mortal Kombat franchise will be "serious".
"[A] lot more realistic looking," Boon revealed. "[W]e're not joking around in this one, it's not going to be like jokes."
This news comes after the confirmation from Midway that the company's next-gen games (including the next Mortal Kombat title) would be powered by Epic's Unreal Engine 3.0. As a result, Boon confirms that this as-of-yet untitled fighting game would be "a lot grittier, dirtier" than previous entries in the Mortal Kombat series.
But that won't be the only major change. In addition to claiming that his team is looking to adapt the Mortal Kombat series to next-gen console technology (such as the implementation of motion-sensing functions), Boon has also stated that his development team has wiped the slate clean. Certain features in past games may be in danger of being eliminated.
"We're not putting any restrictions like we HAVE to keep weapons or we HAVE to keep fighting styles and stuff like that," he admitted. "[W]e're going to [...] try to introduce as many new characters as possible, new features, new stuff like that and take advantage of the amazing presentation, graphics that all of a sudden you can do, things that are a lot more real."
As for a release date, however, Boon revealed that his game probably won't come out until the end of 2008, so hang tight until then.
