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Midway Announces New Mortal Kombat, Romero-Helmed Gauntlet

Posted by simoniker on from the clawing-back-from-the-edge dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for its first look at Midway's new PS2/Xbox title, Mortal Kombat: Deception, as "the recently announced sixth installment" in this long-running franchise officially debuts with a teaser trailer, heavily analyzed at Mortal Kombat Online. Elsewhere, Midway, who is trying to rebound from poor financial results, has announced a new addition to the Gauntlet series, and it's noted that "John Romero, the famous (and infamous) creator of Doom and Daikatana, will be developing the title", confirming earlier rumors to that effect.

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  1. Another Gauntlet? by MMaestro · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Considering what made Gauntlet fun was the insanely basic hack-and-slash system, its gonna be hard to argue that this new Gauntlet will be anything more than another medicore attempt at cashing in on a name that just won't die. The last two Gauntlet games (Legends and Dark Legacy) were nothing more graphics improvements with an extra button, what will they put into the next Gauntlet? Real AI? A level building program? A jump button? (In Gauntlet Legends, some of the "cliffs" were so thin you'd think your character would be able to step over them)

  2. That GamePro link forgets to note GDL for GameCube by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The best version of Gauntlet Dark Legacy was released for GameCube in a limited release. It sold out within months and was never re-released.

    GamePro should know better.

  3. Midway Can Die For All I Care by onewing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Have they made anything made anything thats is anything more than "playable" in the last 5 years? I mean they they cant even get classic arcade ports right.

    1. Re:Midway Can Die For All I Care by prockcore · · Score: 2, Interesting

      What's wrong with their classic arcade ports?

      I just picked up Midway's Arcade Treasures for the gamecube.. it seems pretty sweet to me so far.. including the 4 player gauntlet.

  4. Midway needs a new franchise by miyako · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I remember when Mortal Kombat first came out, I was 8 or 9 I think. I remember my friends and I ogling it at the arcades, and all of us going up to get it the day it came out on the consoles.
    I remember the playground arguments over which version was better, the genisis version for the inclusion of the bloodcode, or the SNES version with it's cleaner graphics.
    I remember staying home from school for a day to play Mortal Kombat II when it came out. I remember rea thinking "This is the best game ever!"
    I remember mortal kombat 3, and I remember mortal kombat trilogy.
    Sadly... I remember mortal kombat 4, and sadly I sort of remember that subzero game, what was it called?
    Mortal Kombat was really good for its time, it had nice graphics, and a simple but not too simple fighting system. The fatalities were chock full of gore, and the hidden features were always nifty.
    When mortal kombat 2 came out it was perfection, but when 3 came out, it was already on a very slippery slope.
    I remember thinking how MK3 was just a crappy ripoff of Killer Instinct, and Marvel Vs Capcom had much better machanics.
    And then that wretched entertainment abortion known as Mortal Kombat 4 came out.
    It was with this release that I and many of my friends lost all hope for midway and the MK series.
    The latest MK game wasn't bad, I played it a couple of times on my cousins XBOX, but everytime I see it, or anything mortal kombat, I remeber that awful taste left in my mouth from MK4, and I just move on.
    Midway has killed it's best franchises, not only killed them but then urinated on their corpses. If midway can make a good game still (and I'm sure they can), they will have to do it with another franchise, because no matter how good the next mortal kombat or gauntlet is, gamers will only remember the awful craptasticness of the previous installments and move on.

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  5. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Rumor has it that under Zucker (new CEO recruited away from Playboy Magazine), projects don't get late without managers starting to vanish. Now that accountability rests with the suits instead of the underlings (Neill was too much of a softie), you can expect change. :)

    Zucker said MWY will be profitable by Q4'04 and stay that way, no matter what the cost.