ROUND 1:And there you have it. We should be able to post a list of the characters from Tekken soon enough, along with some more scans from the cards (posted with permission, of course).
Mortal Kombat
Bo' Rai Cho
Baraka
Sub-Zero
Ashrah
Darrius
Hotaru
Jade
Kabal
Noob Smoke
Sindel
2 Hidden Characters!!!
Street Fighter
Alex
Elena
Gill
Ibuki
Ken
Ryu
Twelve
Sean
Dudley
Hugo
2 Hidden Characters!!!
ROUND 2:
Mortal Kombat
Li Mei
Kira
Mileena
Kenshi
Scorpion
Shujinko (Old)
Dairou
Raiden
Kobra
2 Hidden Characters!!!
Street Fighter
Guile
Cammy
Blanka
M. Bison
Yun and Yang
Akuma
Chun Li
Makoto
Zangief
Vega
Gouken
2 Hidden Characters!!!
Click here to read the rules. Thanks again to the folks at Score Entertainment for supplying us with the information for this update!
As you can tell from one of the pictures, some comic book dealers were selling Mortal Kombat comics - the Malibu series from 1993.
There was also a video game tournament, sponsored by GameStop. "The Ultimate Video Game Challenge" actually used the GameCube port of Mortal Kombat: Deception, sporting Goro and Shao Kahn, and had several other games - such as Halo 2 and Tekken 5. For each game there, six tournaments were held in all - for all three days, they ran two tournaments a day - with the first place winner getting a $50 GameStop card and the 2nd and 3rd place winners each getting $25 GameStop cards. Our congratulations to MK Online forum reader BigTRS for coming in first place most of the time. (I myself actually came in first place the rest of the time.)
We weren't able to attend the tournament for all three days, though - on Wizard World's second day, there was a panel for the Epic Battles Trading Card Game - Midway, CapCom, BlockBuster Video, Udon Comics, and of course, Score Entertainment were all there. Among the announcements made were a list of all the characters (posted here soon!), a list of all the rules of the game, the fact that there will be Tekken and DarkStalkers cards added to the mix of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, and of course the release date - in as little as 2 weeks from now, BlockBuster's everywhere will be stocking these cards. Also interesting to note, it was on BlockBuster's recommendation that Udon was chosen to handle the artwork for the Mortal Kombat cards, as Udon had impressed everyone already with their artwork on the Street Fighter controllers and comic books.
Score Entertainment also held a tournament for Epic Battles, in the special room set aside for trading card games, the winner of which was entitled to a $25 check and a set of three Street Fighter controllers (sadly, the MK controllers were noticably absent here).
We're actually very excited about the next Mortal Kombat fighting game that we're doing. Like before we are introducing, you know, two or three very huge elements to the fighting game that haven't been done before. So, we're really excited about that. I think you can expect to see the biggest roster also of Mortal Kombat characters ever in this next fighter as well.
It is not clear whether or not Mortal Kombat 7 will be introduced yet on current or next-generation hardware. However, Ed Boon has made it clear during our E3 2005 Coverage last May that Midway Games was studying both options. Due to copyright laws we can not provide a link to the audio file on this website, but feel free to pick it up in the latest issue of OPM. Thanks goes out to Total-MK for sending the news lead.
GameSpot has released another in their series of Official Movies for Midway's upcoming Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks. In Official Movie 5, Shaun Himmerick and Ed Boon discuss the cooperative multiplayer (or "ko-op") element of MK: Shaolin Monks. Among the revealtions brought forward is that there are secrets and hidden areas that can only be located in the ko-op mode, by both kombatants working together. They also discuss how players can team up for attacks, whether by tossing each other opponents to take care of or by teaming up for special combined attack combos. Finally, they show a quick shot of Sub-Zero, who they confirm is an unlockable character for adventure mode. They also hint at "other characters", but refuse to name them...
The official movie is available to download for GameSpot Basic members, and can be streamed by non-members. The video is two minutes and twelve seconds; the high-res version is 56.9 MB, and the low-res version is 26 MB. To download or stream the video, click here and scroll down to "Official Movie 5".
Our thanks to forum member Demodocus for the heads-up on this new video!