It is very dramatic.įatalities are still hard to pull off. A similar system is in place for sequences where the fighters battle whilst falling from a cliff. The defender has a one in four chance to counter with the same face button, turning the tables on his opponent. Grappling will engage both fighters in close combat, with one of the four face buttons available for various punches or kicks. In the latter case I was able to check out the game's cloth modeling, dicing up Scorpion's suit with Batarangs and tearing off his mask, cuts and wounds being formed on the fly.Ī grapple button has replaced throws. Superman has his laser eyes, and Batman fires off Batarangs. The DC heroes and villains will of course have special abilities that reflect their super powers. Even though Batman didn't kill him, I knew he was being evil, because his Bat-eyes were glowing yellow. As Batman, a Midway rep demonstrated a 'brutality,' which consisted of the Dark Knight pounding Sub-Zero into the pavement, up to his ears in cement. Much has been made about the DC hero characters' lack of fatalities.

Sonya does her thing, kicking and punching and being the only human of the bunch. On the MK side of things, Scorpion looks like Scorpion, and still uses the most awkwardly infamous video game weapon known to man, like the Gordon's Fisherman from hell. That's what I would do if I was the Flash. Watching the Flash repeatedly zip from one side of the screen to the other, juggling an enemy with punches, was sort of funny. Despite the Teen rating, there are still fatalities, and plenty of blood, and some relatively interesting moves. The important thing is that Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe revolves around some kind of cataclysmic event, a major rift in space and time which causes Batman to run into Scorpion at the grocery store, and then they fight, but Batman doesn't kill him because he has to bring him to justice.Īlright, that may not be entirely accurate, but that's not the important thing.

Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe