Video: The MK vs DC Universe story

Posted Oct 29th 2008 4:00PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News

Writing this post, we were fully ready to laugh heartily at the "story" of Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. We were ready to lambast the cheesiness of it. And yet, strangely, we find ourselves reveling in it. The idea that the universes of Mortal Kombat and DC are merging together seems appropriate enough, especially given the comic book context. The explanation that Superman can be hurt by magic and, thus, Scorpion, seems plausible enough. In fact, forget the cheese, forget the cliches, the shear amount of fanboy minutia being flung about is all that really matters. Check out the trailer above and tell us what you make of it.

Tags: midway, mk-vs-dc, mortal-kombat, mortal-kombat-vs-dc-universe

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

10-29-2008 @ 4:31PM

jp2m5 said...

That looked great! I guess Joker teams up with the "good guys", then.

That's an interesting slant.

10-29-2008 @ 4:34PM

Barron said...

This actually looks...really good. But I hate that they wanted the teen rating. I saw a video of Joker's fatality prior to the Teen rating; and it was nothing short of amazing.

10-29-2008 @ 5:08PM

dunnypop said...

agreed.
I heard that Fatality is there, but the actual shooting happens off screen. WTF!

10-29-2008 @ 5:23PM

Barron said...

Wow, what a disappointment. When I first saw it I was going to go out and reserve a copy immediately. I'm glad I didn't now =/

10-29-2008 @ 4:35PM

ObiBen said...

Wow. When I first heard about this game I was ready to write it off as a crap. The more I hear about the game now the more I want to play it.

10-29-2008 @ 4:37PM

OptimumEDGE said...

Oh gawd, I can feel it! The time space continuum is falling apart, soon we'll all be servants under the mighty lair of Joker!

Err, I meant Scorpion. Yeah Scorpion, he's the badass.

10-29-2008 @ 4:40PM

FlipKid808 said...

i swear i saw Kratos in there somewhere! no no no! farealz i saw him!!

10-30-2008 @ 4:13PM

bludshot said...

no i saw him too, or maybe that's just a dc/mk equivalent....

10-29-2008 @ 4:46PM

ziggen said...

LAME !!! Come on - can't they think of something better.

10-29-2008 @ 4:54PM

SadisticHam said...

Looks like this will be the first fighter i buy for the 360, i like it. :$

10-29-2008 @ 5:16PM

[email protected] said...

There is additional video of the single player game available now, it looks even better than the trailer above. This one goes into detail of the Sub-Zero vs Batman and Raiden vs Superman fights.

http://www.trmk.org/news/12149/midway_reveals_first_weekly_ultimate_mashup_trailer.html

10-29-2008 @ 5:50PM

TORO said...

Man this game looks awesome, I was excited from the first gameplay preview. Too bad I'm spending my money on emergence day 2.

10-29-2008 @ 6:07PM

francisco said...

the game might suck! but damn this trailer is epic kinda making me want to get it lol

10-29-2008 @ 6:28PM

Justin said...

I think the story makes sense and even kinda complements the Mortal Kombat mythos, with realms trying to merge together, BUT now that it has gone from a Mature game to Teen...I may make this a rent and not a buy. I am very disappointed in Midway the "creators" of the ESRB and now they conform to sell a few more copies?!! Maybe they should look at the sales figures for the year and take note of Halo 3, GTA IV and COD 4...all "M" rated games.

10-29-2008 @ 7:00PM

OptimumEDGE said...

They shoulda just included some sort of parental control filter kinda like what GOW2 will have.

Meh. Whatever. Game should still be pretty damn awesome.

10-29-2008 @ 7:41PM

Edwin said...

I like the story, it will be cool if they made an animation movie of the story in blu-ray

10-29-2008 @ 8:58PM

B-rad said...

the bloody hell? That looks like Deadpool standing next to the Joker at the very end.

10-30-2008 @ 1:05AM

Eric Carter said...

Mortal Kombat characters and DC Comics characters

Baraka
Batman
Jax
Captain Marvel
Kano
Catwoman
Kitana
Darkseid
Liu Kang
Deathstroke
Raiden
The Flash
Scorpion
Green Lantern
Shang Tsung
The Joker
Shao Kahn
Lex Luthor
Sonya Blade
Superman
Sub-Zero
Wonder Woman

http://redringxbox360.com

10-30-2008 @ 3:49AM

Feedback said...

This looks absurdly awesome.

10-30-2008 @ 12:23PM

H34R7 7HR0B said...

dare i say...... INSANELY AWESOME!!!

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