your awesome taj but sorry i have to disagree, i did read the reports but for me the videos speak louder than words, trust me this is injustce reskinned. im autistic and have a good eye for this stuff.
NRS have 2 fighting engines. the one they built for MK9 and the one they built for injustice. both engines have a very different feel and you dont need to play the game to notice you can tell by watching how the characters move and the whole pace of the game and how they hit each other. The reason they built a separate mechanic for injustice is so that they could incorporate the whole environment thing and it was this that changed things dramatically. the scale of the characters had to become smaller in relation to the rest of the screen to allow the player to be able to see more of the background which takes away from the action and then they had to float more to allow the timing to interact and jump off these environments. and all these light movements lead to less satisfying hits and combos and completley change the overall gameplay.
MK10 is the same thing as injustice its indistinguishably the same engine used for injustice and not the MK9 engine at all nor is it a cross between the 2 its straight up the injustice engine and its not just because of the enviroment thing the character models and how they move all taken from injustice. the only difference is they have re-skinned the injustice character models to look like MK characters and changed the backgrounds eg ferra torr is bane and D'vorah is raven etc
when NRS went into MK10 they had a choice to make do we A: go with the MK9 engine and work up from there or B: do we go with the injustice engine and take it from there. they chose B because they wanted to cram new features in that mk9 did not have.
so its a shame that for MK10 NRS decided to reskin the injustice engine rather than stick with the MK9 engine that worked so well.
Most MK fans prefer the MK9 fighting engine over the injustice one so NRS should of kept MK as MK and just added the new fighting styles, characters and updated graphics not change over to the whole other engine.
injustice plays like shit. none of the movements and hits feel satisfying both to play or to watch and looking at the gameplay footage of MK10 its got all the same problems
its frustrating coz the first trailer in the snow forest with subz and scorpion looked like MK9 engine but with better graphics the pacing was great and you could feel the power behind every hit . but then the actual game footage came along it was very clear that its just like injustice where everythings feels feather weight and none of the hits have any impact and they move around so fast you cant tell whats going on its just a mess, and the buzy backgrounds are distracting its not fun to watch.
sad times