Available exclusively on the PlayStation 2, three of the four Mortal Kombat: Armageddon Premium Packs will feature metallic packaging covers that highlight some of the franchise's most popular character duos, including: Sindel and Shao Kahn, Johnny Cage and Goro, and Kano and Sonya. The fourth Premium Pack set will feature the general Mortal Kombat: Armageddon retail box art on metallic packaging. The Premium Pack sets have a suggested retail price of $49.95 and will also include the following:

* An arcade-perfect, playable of the original Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
* Over 60 minutes of bonus DVD video content featuring a "History of Fatalities" movie, along with new videos for more than 50 of the Mortal Kombat characters
* An embossed metal package created exclusively for the limited edition Premium Pack sets; there will be four unique box fronts in total
* Animation cell cover art autographed by franchise co-creator, Ed Boon

Mortal Kombat: Armageddon --- the latest chapter in the award-winning video game fighting franchise. With the most complete roster ever, including every character from the Mortal Kombat fighting universe, revolutionary Create-A-Fighter and Create-A-Fatality modes, plus a new Konquest mode, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon promises to be the most complete, intensely lethal, fighting experience ever!

No word on the Xbox limited editions, as of yet. Read the entire press release.

Sounds Great, But since I'm not one of the biggest fan of MK anymore, I'll probably get the regular version. I owned the premium pack of Deception and I watched the extras maybe once or two and they weren't that worthed. Not saying that these aren't but not for me.

Originally Posted by : MaxDam
Sounds Great, But since I'm not one of the biggest fan of MK anymore, I'll probably get the regular version.

Likewise, but I think I'll shell out the extra $10 to get an emulated UMK3.. hopefully it's done in-house so it won't have the same issues as MKII and 3 on MAT2. I wonder why they're skipping on Xbox this time. Surely UMK3 isn't the only reason; I guess sales of the LE last time weren't so hot.

Originally Posted by : Umon Daisuke
Likewise, but I think I'll shell out the extra $10 to get an emulated UMK3.. hopefully it's done in-house so it won't have the same issues as MKII and 3 on MAT2. I wonder why they're skipping on Xbox this time. Surely UMK3 isn't the only reason; I guess sales of the LE last time weren't so hot.

I'm 99.9% sure that Digital Eclipse is doing the UMK3 emulation, the same company who has done all of the Midway arcade emulations.

Awsome, I am hoping to actually get this CE of the last MK game to grace this generation of consoles.

Originally Posted by : Jeff Greeson
I'm 99.9% sure that Digital Eclipse is doing the UMK3 emulation, the same company who has done all of the Midway arcade emulations.

Ugh, so we can only hope this isn't another pseudo arcade-perfect version. It's really disheartening on the whole though, especially when you look at other emulations out there. Tekken 1-3 arcade versions were emulated perfectly on the PS2 (the music was streaming from the disc though), and they were technically, much more advanced. Add the recent SF Alpha compilation.

id much rather play mk1 to umk3 on mame, mk3/mkt/mk4 on the psx emu or the real console and mkgold on the dc. midway cant emulate for shit.

Originally Posted by : ZenJiriki
id much rather play mk1 to umk3 on mame, mk3/mkt/mk4 on the psx emu or the real console and mkgold on the dc. midway cant emulate for shit.

Once again you hit the nail on the head, dude. I'd rather play MK2 and 3 on my MAT no#2. Even UMK3 released with MKA in the collectors pack will be more fun than MKA

UMK3!! I was hoping that they would include that instead of MK3. I was worried that it would be MK3 since they basically had it ready to go since it was used in the Midway Arcade package awhile back. That seals the deal for me then, over priced premium pack here I come!

Maybe the no xbox version has something to do with the fact that they are releasing UMK3 on xbox live arcade before the years end, I dont know what reason that would be though.