Mortal Kombat coming to the DS
by Jason Wishnov 
{ Jan 31st 2007 at 6:35PM }
We would call this the series that just won't die ... but, as Nintendo fanboys, we're actually surrounded by those far older. Yes, yet another installment of MK is coming to the DS, courtesy of Midway; rather predictably, we know almost nothing about it. The only comment given: "it [won't be] a direct port of a previous title, it [won't] be a brand-new game either."This leaves the only remaining option: indirect port. It involves a wormhole and superstring theory. Our best guess? A port of an SNES or Playstation version of Mortal Kombat, complete with OMGawesome stylus control and a couple new characters thrown in for good measure. Meh.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Vinni @ Jan 31st 2007 7:58PM
I'd rather have a Street Fighter, or even a new Ninja Turtles game.
ManekiNeko @ Jan 31st 2007 8:16PM
Oh no, it's a touch-sensitive port of Mortal Kombat Mythologies!
JR
Kefka @ Jan 31st 2007 8:35PM
Was mythologies the craptastic side scrolling sub zero adventure? (totally a better name)
I can't say im excited about this... MK has only just started to get decent again, and those games are on consoles with way more power than the DS
dukemeiser @ Jan 31st 2007 8:44PM
If you could play it online against others it would make it much more enjoyable.
Oro @ Jan 31st 2007 9:51PM
No, it's going to be Mortal Kombat: Special Forces with touch screen controls :p
Please, Please, make it as close to a direct port of Mortal Kombat II as possible. Everything after MKII has been downhill.
Uno @ Jan 31st 2007 11:14PM
MKIII was alright-ish
but I'd rather see Street Fighter or King Of Fighters with wifi
B-Mo @ Jan 31st 2007 11:45PM
I say that it's going to be a compilation of 1-3, with wifi. BAM!
Matthew @ Feb 1st 2007 12:09AM
A perfect port of the original arcade game complete with Wi-Fi versus mode would be awesome. I wouldn't want to play anything else though since every other MK game sucked.
SSBR @ Feb 1st 2007 1:56AM
Ahh arcade port it sounds. While MK1 was alright, MK2 is what made MK, MK. MK2 was the only one that could hold up to SF2.
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KiFF @ Feb 1st 2007 4:09AM
I would prefer them to build a game straight up. The DS is lacking in beat em ups, at least those released outside Japan.
BTW, how the hell are you guys managing to insert live links in your link.
Xian! @ Feb 1st 2007 8:25AM
#7, B-Mo:
You are cruel. Seriously, I would pay upwards of $90 for such a compilation.
Why do they have to say "not a port?" Don't they realize that we WANT a port? What, they tried one half-assed, atrocious port on the GBA and decided we didn't want any ports at all? Bah!
DiRT @ Feb 1st 2007 8:33AM
Xian! - Um... I think you somehow missed Deadly Alliance and Tournament Edition on the GBA. Both were great IMHO and much better than other 3D fighter attempts like Tekken.
Also, it won't be a port because the system can't quite handle everything in the "bigger" versions.
Florian Warg @ Feb 1st 2007 8:48AM
has anybody ever heard anything about a STREETFIGHTER installment already? being able to daddle super street fighter 2 turbo revival advance on the ds was the reason that i bought nintendos poratable back then...
Xian! @ Feb 1st 2007 11:20AM
DiRT: No, no, no. Actually I have both of those games for GBA. They're pretty good, but what I want is CLASSIC Mortal Kombat. 2D, side-scrolling, acid pit uppercutting, pixel for pixel spine-extracting action!
Last place I saw classic Kombat was on SNES (have been out of the loop since then, so if it showed up anywhere else, I'm unaware, but it seems everything after was 3D). I don't understand why Midway won't port the classics to GBA or DS. I was about 15 when MK first came out, addicted from the get-go, so the nostalgia factor is through the roof here.
20XX @ Feb 1st 2007 12:47PM
"Classic Kombat" (which we'll say is MK 2 or 3) has been on the SNES, Genesis, 32X, Game Boy, Game Gear (I think), Playstation, Saturn, N64 (sorta), PS2, GC, Xbox, PC, PSP, Xbox Live Arcade, and soon to be the Playstation Network.