Midway Plans Ultimate Mortal Kombat for Nintendo DS

Status
Not open for further replies.
J

Jeff Greeson

Administrator
Staff member
<a href="http://www.trmk.org/images/news/umk3_ds.jpg"><img src="http://www.trmk.org/images/news/umk3_ds.jpg" width="160" height="167" align="right" class="newslink" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a>According to <b>IGN</b>, no console is safe for the <b>Mortal Kombat</b> franchise as <b>Midway</b> <a href="http://uk.ds.ign.com/articles/799/799888p1.html">let out the secret</a> that it plans on publishing a version of <b>Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3</b> for the <b>Nintendo DS</b>. From the developers of <a href="http://www.trmk.org/games/umk3/">Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3</a> for <b>Xbox Live Arcade</b>, the <b>Nintendo DS</b> version will feature <b>WiFi</b> for <b>Internet and Local Play</b> and also feature <a href="http://www.trmk.org/games/mkd/">Mortal Kombat: Deception's</a> mini-game, <b>Puzzle Kombat</b>. <b>Ed Boon</b> spoke with <b>IGN</b> in <a href="http://ds.ign.com/articles/799/799910p1.html">an interview</a> with the series co-creator.
<b>IGN: Why the arcade game and not the MK: Armageddon design?</b>

<b>Ed Boon:</b> We've been fortunate enough to have some great success bringing back the "old-school" MK games to some of the newer consoles. We've had great online playing versions of MK2 and MK3 on the Xbox 360 and the PS3. The DS has never had an MK game before so we thought it was a perfect fit. Since UMK3 has already come out for the home, we wanted to also offer something that the previous versions didn't have so we are including Puzzle Kombat. I'm not entirely sure we would be able to fit all of MK Armageddon on a DS cartridge.
Click to expand...
In addition, the <b>MK Team</b> is highly involved in the creative input for <b>Ultimate Mortal Kombat</b> for the <b>Nintendo DS</b>. They are still working on ideas on how to fully utilize the handheld's dual screens and perhaps incorporate the touch-sensitive input. Until then, we all wait with extreme anticipation until the title's release in <b>November 2007</b>. Stay tuned as there will more than likely be more information coming out of the <b>E3 Media & Business</b> summit in almost two weeks.
 
Last edited:
everything they've tried to bring old school to the platforms has totally sucked.. Midway treasures series is a perfect example.. none of those games have the arcade feel. Only port I've ever played that really felt like the arcade was the MK Duo.. which had MK1 and MK2 for the PC.. that game was flawless.
 
Malitor Greymaulkin said:
everything they've tried to bring old school to the platforms has totally sucked.. Midway treasures series is a perfect example.. none of those games have the arcade feel. Only port I've ever played that really felt like the arcade was the MK Duo.. which had MK1 and MK2 for the PC.. that game was flawless.
Click to expand...

Have you tried the MKII on the PSN?
 
I'd have preferred a 'complete' MK Trilogy (ie both C and K) but this is good enough for me. Puzzle Kombat is awesome too so It should be right up my alley. They should include Khameleon in there though, just for tradition
 
I got rid of my DS a few months ago. I the Xbox Live Arcade version a lot, so I think I'm covered...though a used DS might be coming back to my room!
 
I think Midway better understands now the quality control that the fans would like to see in these ports after the early MAT ports.
 
HEY ALL TRYING TO GET QUALITY PLAYERS FOR DS UMK MATCHES AND POSSIBLE FUTURE TOURNAMENTS! PLEASE POST FRIEND CODES HERE IF YOU'RE FEELING STRONG!

d'fly 446771738921
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top