From what we saw, the delay in ShangTsung's morphs, which have been bedeviling home players, is gone. While not "arcade-perfect", UMK III is pretty darn close. Do you want to play Noob Saibot, the human Smoke, Ermac, Mileena, or the classic Sub-Zero? Does the idea of checking out some new moves for your favorite characters get your temperature rising? Well, how do you think we feel? All of the characters and secrets from the arcade version of UMK III have been packed into the disc, so you can calm down now. The kind folks from Williams Entertainment recently showed the staff of VideoGames the work-in-progress version of UMK III, and even at this early stage it looks much better than the flawed Saturn version of Mortal Kombat II. As the game is set on Earth the stages have a more realistic look to them which is ok, I guess, but again it is one thing that makes it less special than Mortal Kombat 2. I loved the stages that were in MK2 and the ones here are very different. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is an interesting looking game. It does though have much of what mattered and that is the returning characters such as Scorpion and Kitana along with more stages.
The poor old Genesis just was not able to handle all that the arcade offered. Visually, the game has been downgraded quite a bit from the arcade.
The story is actually the same as it was in the standard Mortal Kombat 3, but in all honesty, I see no reason for them to have changed it here. It is a pretty cool story and one that I do like. This means that the game is now set on Earth. This time around Shao Khan can use his dead wife Sindel to open up the portals to Earth Realm so he can take it by force. We’ll even remake all of the music by giving it a modern cinematic sound that incorporates real instruments.Just like in Mortal Kombat 2, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 once again fleshes out the lore of the MK universe. The characters and stages will get a face lift to 4K resolution and 60 frames per second gameplay action through the power of Unreal Engine 5. “Of course every fatality, brutality, friendship and animality will be there too. “We’re planning to painstakingly recreate every detail of every stage and character in glorious 3D,” explains Eyeballistic. Meanwhile, Eyeballistic had gone ahead and done mockups of the remastered games, and shared the screenshots with DSOGaming. They even plan to launch a crowdfunding campaign to get the necessary funding for the project. Which is where the petition comes in: once the petition reaches that 100,000 signatures goal, Eyeballistic will try to appeal to Warner Bros. Eyeballistic has the backing of Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon.Īnd while Boon supports the idea, it’s all up to Warner Bros., who own the IP, and aren’t convinced that the game would sell the 100,000 copies needed to justify marketing costs. Per DSOGaming, the developer has drawn up a petition in an attempt to gain enough signatures to convince Warner Bros. Stories of the on again, off again remaster have been floating around for years, and now indie studio Eyeballistic wants to do something about it.Įyeballistic’s plan is to take the original trilogy of games and remaster their stages and character sprites using Unreal Engine 5. It’s no secret that Mortal Kombat fans have been jerked around in regards to a remaster of the original trilogy of games for some time now.