Alright thnx for the info, that doens't sound bad. You also mentioned it plays more like UMK3. What elements are similar? and How does the regular fighting feel, is it also more UMK3 ish or more MKD/MKA like.

AAAHHH my greatest fear lol. i hope i play this game for more than a week,

If the gameplay is good, online play will offer heaps of replayability

Ahahahahahaha

Ending with pictures???

You don't say

And you all have faith in Midway....

Recently, I read a news in a Brazilian Site, that confirms that Midway is going reaaaaally bad at business. And after this game, I hope that his closes them forever.
Also the story line is so short that you will never play this thing again. It will go to your shelves acumulating dust. REPLAY VALUE IS ZERO. I ask that question in Fight Night.

Thanks ChrisDVD! We warned you all but you said we were just crazy. I knew the game would be slow and lack repaly value just like Chris said. This dosen't surprise me at all. The endings sounds so stupid, you can tell that this shit was rushed. Thanks again ChrisDVD, now I can't wait for all the fan boys to turn a blind eye to the game's GIANT flaws and focus on the one or two good things about the game "Well ummm...the packagings nice...",lol.

You speak the truth Sadly every one else on this board has been brainwashed, its kinda like an online jonestown,lol.

If all you're going to do is play the game for the story mode, then you are correct. There would be no reason to play the game. I am assuming that many of you do not play this game online for whatever reasons. Online competition is THE ONLY reason that I am buying this game. I have countless fighting games in my collection, ranging from Super Street Fighter to to Virtua Fighter 5. The ones that are not equipt with online play, I have not played in years.

I am not one to play the CPU over and over again. There is no fun in finding loopholes in the AI. I need to face a live opponent for maximum enjoyment. Learning new tricks and setups to fool live opponents is thrilling to me. Being king of the hill or trying to beat the king of the hill is a big plus for online play. Being able to play an opponent anytime of day adds infinte replay value to any game, especially fighting games.

People still play 3rd Strike online and I'm with them. That game is over ten years old, talk about replay! This game, if its good should be no different in terms of replay value for the online component. I recommend hopping online if you have the option of doing so.


Peace

why does everyone hate endings with pictures? i actually always really liked those. my only real complaint about them is that one or two pictures aren't enough.

i don't play games online at all. so the replay value of this game for me is soley how long i can enjoy it from the single player aspect. that said i'm STILL playing SCIV and i just recently stopped playing T5.

yeah.. saddly, the game doesn't look to have any replay value.. a story mode and a arcade mode.. that's it.. As always, midway proves himself to be lazy. The gameplay and the graphics are great but a game is not just about that.. ... So, a game is about fun and content. not just about graphics. MK DA's gameplay was rigid and so was MKD.. but their content was awesome. Also, MK vs DC's fatalities seem to suck from what i've seen

Really? I admit the sheer amount of content in the previous games was mind boggling, but the meat and potatoes of any game is always its core game play. There are only so many times that you can watch fatalities before the begin to suck even harder than they did before. I normally initiate fatalies for the first two weeks of getting a new MK game. After that, it's rare that I pull one off.

FYI, the MK Team is not lazy. They are under what is known as a "deadline" to get the game out to the consumers before the holidays. When you land a job in this type of field, you are subjected to countless deadlines. I'm a web developer and programmer, I need to meet deadlines on a constant basis. Many of my ideas get scrapped due to time constraints. The MK Team endured the the same situation. The team's new focus was on solidifying its core fighting mechanics first. This new fighting engine will be expanded upon in subsequent itterations of MK games.

There is no doubt that with the next release, you will get your "content" along with an upgraded fighting egine for the online players.


Peace

Yay for picture endings! (and we've known they would be there for about 1-2 months)
Using the picture endings you can explain much more, much better than in some clunky Tekken like ending. Fantastic

I personally prefer text and picture endings too.

The FMV endings in MK4 and in other games in the genre like Tekken and Soul Calibur give you so little story. They're just a brief moment taking place immediately after the battles. It's lame.

Endings with text, on the other hand, are like epilogues to the bios, they give you an entire section of the character's life, where they've been and where they're headed next.

yeah i agree and as for chriss dvd's review he's visted the site like twiceso ill take his reviwes with a grain of salt i stil lthink it will have very high replay vaule ill just wait and see for my self

Don't discredit him just because of the number of visits he has; mastermalone and I have almost the same amount of visits, and I know that he'd be able to tell you about the gameplay of any video game better than I could.
ChrisDVD is giving us his opinion on the game, which he's proven he owns, and that's really all he can do. Everybody will have a differing opinion about MKvsDC once they actually play it, just as they should.

Let me get this straight..

We have scrubs saying how bad mk vs dc is going to be becuase.
1: weak fatalities
2: less blood
3: not much to unlock

i also hear reports that this game plays like UMK3.

Folks a new era may be upon us.

Mortal Kombat may FINALLY!!!! be a great fighting game..

Gone are the days mk is mocked as a 2nd rate fighter with nothing but blood.


You can complain all you want about the lack of staff photos and concept art to unlock..

but i for one find replay in a game with a good fighting mechanic you can keep the unlockables..

Well for me, I have no desire whatsoever to play this or any game
online. So for me the replay value of this game from Chris's view
doesn't sound like it will be enjoyable after the first few plays. That
has definitely been one of my main concerns. The game was pretty
much made for people who like to fight others online, but they seem
to have also forgotten that not everyone does, so for those individuals
I doubt they'll (myself included) will play it much, every so often maybe.

PURE20, you might not want to get off on the wrong foot calling people scrubs around here. No one here is complaining about staff pictures or concept art! But for people who do not play online, it'd be nice to have at least a little content to unlock and be used in game.

Seriously, I think that the MK will be a one-hit fighting game, with a lot of crazy and "gore" fatalitys, "awesome" FMW endings, and tons of unrelated mini-games.

And make another saga, with deep gameplay & storyline, with finishers as a reward for the fight and not inverse, and focused in the gameplay replay value. Probably sells less than "Mortal Kombat" (at least, in the start), but we will have more proud, and the rest of fighting community too.

Good Gameplay & Good Online >>>>>> Mini-games. We only need a MKDA Konquest type mode, and mini-games like Test Your... or Bonus Rounds like SF2. Other things are welcome, but never over gameplay replay value...

right agreed i agree with you 100% all i am saying is with a new member it is hard to trust judge or understand there opinion with older members like you crow ect ect we know where you stand on old mk games and what you think and base what you say on newer games acording to that with him being new what dont know where he stand how big of an mk fan he is what he likes hate or thinks about the other mk games for all we know he could hate mk games it cause he likes dc see if you said what he did i would take it into considaration but with this guy where we all know nothing about or like i said how big of an mk fan he is its just kinda hard to take his reviwe serious and to the heart

your concern is the same as mine. that ultimately decides if i'm going to pay 60 bucks for a new product. if i'm only going to play it for five days than it's not worth it.

although online gaming is kind of appealing to me. it's not something i would actually do although i would like to play someone like mastermalone.

LOL, malone why do u try to explain anyhting to the little fanboys. We all know there deal by now, give up trying to explain to someone that they are BUYING a fighting game, yet complainabout no replay when they arent FIGHTING.

Thats the difference between them and us, they missed the arcde scence, and dont understand fighting games are ment to fighting other people head to head, and not all the bullshit fluuf midway has to waste time on, to make these scrubs buy the game, and take away from the important stuff like gameplay mechanics.

see u online soon.

I am giving you my opinion on the game itself. If you want a review, the wait for IGN.

As for the way it controls, its more like MK3 than it is MK:DA. You can step in 3D but you have to hold down L2 and then press Up or Down. Otherwise up and down Jump or Duck.

To be clear, the Arcade Mode ending are ONE (1) picture. NOT multiple pictures.

In Arcade Mode, no matter what character you select, you have the option of fighting ALL MK, ALL DC or MIXED.

After an ending is seen, they become unlocked in the "Endings" Menu.

There ARE bios in this game, which come pre-unlocked.

As I said before, there is hardly any replay value for the single player. I'm not a huge online fan. Although playing with friends would be fun. But single player has the Combo Challenge and that's about it, after Story Mode is complete.

As for other Fatalities, I have not seen anymore of them yet.

The sub bosses (Shao Kahn and Darkseid) appear to NOT have finishers but when you beat them (exception being Dark Kahn), the announcer says "FINISH HIM" and then stand there dazed. I'm GUESSING it means you can kill them. I don't know for sure because I don't know the button inputs for the Fatalities/Heroic Brutalities.

I don't have means of posting video, sorry. I don't have a video camera. I might be able to hook my VCR up and then capture the tape....

DC Opening:



MK Opening:



Darkseid's Ending:



Catwoman's Ending:

Watch your mouth and learn how to respect others, redsaleen02.

Mentioned/Seen Characters in Story mode:



I think there may be one more character in DC Mode, but I can't remember. I haven't finished MK Mode yet, so maybe there is more.

BACK DOWN FORWARD DOWN FORWARD square / Y

Sub Zero Fatality i told earlier


Try it Chris

so i just called eb and they said it comes out the 18th...wow...

LoL. I didn't get it from EB.

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