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Surfer Girl Reviews Star Wars BLOG = MK8 to have generic Unreal Engine Backrounds
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posted04/15/2008 09:05 PM (UTC)by
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jpetrunak
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I dont know how many of you are familiar with the "Surfer Girl Reviews Star Wars Blog " .... but anyway its a well known and respected blog from an enigmatic game industry insider who blogs about everything from games to politics to music.

Anywho, she (he? / they?) are known for breaking alot of news WAAAYYYY before other sources because of their anonymity, so no one can go after them for breaking embargo's. The blog has been talked about on Bonus Round with Geoff Kieghly ect .....

ANYWAY ..... I came across this today ....

http://softrockhallelujah.blogspot.com/

basically its photo , with text transposed over it saying ....

" Unlike this image, the enviroments of the new Mortal Kombat are of the generic Unreal Engine 3 KIN "

"Generic Shooter - Shooter + Fighting = the new MK"

"More generic fun can be found at Midway Gamers Day in Las Vegas on 4/17 in Las Vegas"


So apparently the new MK will indeed have the "Gears of War" art style which has been speculated for a long time.

This could also mean that if the game is indeed a crossover game, it would be with the characters of Unreal Tornement / Gears of War ( Which some of you may remember in a previous thread a few months back, I did speculate that if MK were to crossover with another series it would be Unreal, and not DC ).

It would certainly make sense, considering alot of the clues from noob.com have pointed to the moon, and planetary themes. Lets also not forget that in previous Unreal Tournament 2 ( and I believe 2004 ) , MK characters were unlockable.

We only have a few more days to find out, but atleast this coming from a more reliable source than some random 12 year making up fake insider friends that go to gaming events a week before they are actually going to occur, and using old rumors to call his own *cough*cyberdog*cough.

4 more days folks.

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 •04/13/2008 06:34 PM (UTC) •
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Well, just hopefully it's not true that it's gonna be a crossover games of some sort. If it is, the MK series is totally going to be like....dead to a lot of fans.
It was not mentioned in the early stages (2006), that MK8 would be a crossover game period.

I don't believe anything that is mentioned. I'm just gonna go with my own instinct and believe the MK8 is going to be a true fighting game with it's own kombatants. What's MK without fatalities?
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 •04/13/2008 06:47 PM (UTC) •
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^ On the contrary, the Unreal Tournement games are extremely bloody and violent, so if true, I wouldn't worry about them leaving out blood or fatalities.

And as the picture says :

Generic Shooter MINUS SHOOTING, PLUS FIGHTING = MK8.

They werent saying its going to be a shooter, its definitely a fighting, it will just most likely feature characters and environments from the Unreal Tournament games ( if my theory is right of coarse ).

And even if im wrong about the actual characters or story crossing over, "generic UT environments" is basically saying that the new MK8 will have the same look and art style of Gears of War / Unreal Tournament ( Gears and UT could easily take place in the same universe as they look identical ).

So im basically expecting alot of futuristic, biomechanical cities, old religious temples and ruins, and heavily armored , hulking muscular characters on super steroids, with some alien and robot themes thrown in ( which is essentially Gears / UT ).

Boon did say in an interview that when he saw Gears of Wars, he admitted that , "THAT is the look im going for".
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 •04/13/2008 06:58 PM (UTC) •
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Boon did say in an interview that when he saw Gears of Wars, he admitted that , "THAT is the look im going for".

Yes, I did read this too. I think it is a good idea because it is dark and envy.

As for the rest of ur post, I totally understand what you are implying. Sorry for the misunderstanding!
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 •04/13/2008 07:20 PM (UTC) •
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jpetrunak Wrote:
^ On the contrary, the Unreal Tournement games are extremely bloody and violent, so if true, I wouldn't worry about them leaving out blood or fatalities.

And as the picture says :

Generic Shooter MINUS SHOOTING, PLUS FIGHTING = MK8.

They werent saying its going to be a shooter, its definitely a fighting, it will just most likely feature characters and environments from the Unreal Tournament games ( if my theory is right of coarse ).

And even if im wrong about the actual characters or story crossing over, "generic UT environments" is basically saying that the new MK8 will have the same look and art style of Gears of War / Unreal Tournament ( Gears and UT could easily take place in the same universe as they look identical ).

So im basically expecting alot of futuristic, biomechanical cities, old religious temples and ruins, and heavily armored , hulking muscular characters on super steroids, with some alien and robot themes thrown in ( which is essentially Gears / UT ).

Boon did say in an interview that when he saw Gears of Wars, he admitted that , "THAT is the look im going for".


You may be right if only Ed has thought for a short plan.
He cant make a new start with a crossover game unless this is not the game we are waiting .

Also dont you think that making Mk a crossover with Unreal is really impossible wink
How can you join a shooter with a fighting game .It is really hard .

I thank you very much for the info and I respect your thoughts but I dont think this is gonna be a crossover game unless it is confirmed by Ed himselfe smile
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 •04/13/2008 07:28 PM (UTC) •
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If it's a crossover game (which I don't think it will be), I wouldn't expect it to be with UT or Gears. UT is virtually unknown to fighting game fans. Most MK players wouldn't even know who the UT characters were. Also, Gears is Xbox 360 only, while MK8 will be on PS3 and probably Wii. It's unlikely MS would be cool with having Gears characters in a PS3 or Wii game.

The only thing this blog really tells us is that MK8 is using the Unreal Engine, which we've all known about for quite some time.

Generic-looking or not, this is the first fighting game to use the Unreal Engine so I'm pretty excited to see what it looks like.
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 •04/13/2008 08:10 PM (UTC) •
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DrDogg Wrote:
If it's a crossover game (which I don't think it will be), I wouldn't expect it to be with UT or Gears. UT is virtually unknown to fighting game fans. Most MK players wouldn't even know who the UT characters were. Also, Gears is Xbox 360 only, while MK8 will be on PS3 and probably Wii. It's unlikely MS would be cool with having Gears characters in a PS3 or Wii game.

The only thing this blog really tells us is that MK8 is using the Unreal Engine, which we've all known about for quite some time.

Generic-looking or not, this is the first fighting game to use the Unreal Engine so I'm pretty excited to see what it looks like.


i dont agree witht hat at all.

ut unknown to fighting game fans? pppffft.

i can name most of the unreal cast, from any of their games.





you know, the cross over may not be an "mk" game.

it could simply mean theres gona be mk guys in the next gears of war game. as raiden was in the last ut game. they were probably inspired by mk projects like pi's mk mod for unreal 2004.

hard to say. just have to wait and see.
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 •04/13/2008 08:26 PM (UTC) •
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Forget about this post. [I made an error]
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Onaga
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 •04/14/2008 12:01 AM (UTC) •
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To jpetrunak's last post: So are you thinking that it will feature characters from that franchise because of the name that the graphics engine has....yes it is called the Unreal 3 engine but that does not mean in any way what so ever that they will link the stories or characters (and the idea that MK8 being a cross over is just absurd to begin with)
but again Ed did say he was inspired by Gears
MEANING how gritty and dark it was.
It does not mean that the environments will also be leaked into MK. The MK universe is not set in any furturistic time, ( I can see certain levels such as the Chaos Realm of the Neatherealm having an interesting twist to them)
it is set in this day and age not a time of Alien contacts and links to other Galaxies.
Let me break it down for you,
graphicly it will look as all the other games have that have used that engine,
Turok, Stangle Hold, and I have yet to see any characters make guest appearances or be linked with the franchises.
Atmosphere: Ed said he was inspired by the games dark grittyness, and that is what he said he wanted to transfer into MK8, noy create a game that is a carbon copy of Gears of War. They just wanted to tranfer the dark
atmosphere of this game to MK8.
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 •04/14/2008 02:36 AM (UTC) •
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Most crossover games would suck, but a UT/Gears crossover would ROCK. I hope there's at least a guest character. Marcus Fenix from Gears doing a chainsaw fatality would be killer. Remember that Raiden was in UC2? This'll be returning the favor.
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•04/14/2008 06:55 AM (UTC) •
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Generic Shooter + Original Background = Bioshock.

Generic Shooter + Strong Co-Op = Army of Two

Generic Shooter + MMO = APB

Generic Shooter + Tactical + Movie License = Alien: Colonial Marines.

Generic Shooter + Occidental Sci-Fi + RPG = Mass Effect.

Generic Shooter - Shooter + Japanese RPG = Lost Odyssey & Last Renmant

Generic Shooter - Shooter + Strategy = Halo Wars

Generic Shooter - Shooter + Racing = Fatal Inertia.

Generic Shooter - Shooter + Wrestling = TNA Impact

Generic Shooter - Shooter + Fighting Game = Mortal Kombat 8

Etc...
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 •04/14/2008 12:47 PM (UTC) •
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NO TO CROSSOVER BULLSHIT
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 •04/14/2008 01:20 PM (UTC) •
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i could totally believe this..couple more days and we'll know.
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 •04/14/2008 03:30 PM (UTC) •
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Perhaps they are doing a soulcaliber type thing were for the X360 gears players will be unlockable and for the PS3 UT characters will be unlockable. Not saying this is true but it would make sense. UT (as of right now) is PS3 exclusive; Gears is X360 exclusive.
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 •04/14/2008 10:48 PM (UTC) •
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I wouldn't be surprised if Gears of War, Marcus, Cole, Baired, & Santiago, were all exclusive to MK8.

highwaytothelost Wrote:
Perhaps they are doing a soulcaliber type thing were for the X360 gears players will be unlockable and for the PS3 UT characters will be unlockable. Not saying this is true but it would make sense. UT (as of right now) is PS3 exclusive; Gears is X360 exclusive.

UT III is coming out for 360, soon.
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 •04/15/2008 04:52 PM (UTC) •
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Yes i know but it was a timed exclusive for PS3. I'm not saying this will happen but it would make sense for those characters to go to those platforms.
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Asesino
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 •04/15/2008 08:22 PM (UTC) •
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Is the surfer girl hot?Otherwise Im not believing it.
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 •04/15/2008 08:56 PM (UTC) •
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Asesino Wrote:
Is the surfer girl hot?Otherwise Im not believing it.


lol



the u3 engine is really perfect for people like the mk team. it makes things a lot easier to do in the realm of a fighter. you can crankout backgrounds, explosions, etc will ease. i can make a pretty huge ut map in no time.

not to mentions all the emitters and things like that, to create smoke, lightning, fire, etc.

it makes everything easier. which is probably why the game is moving at a pretty quick pace.
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 •04/15/2008 09:05 PM (UTC) •
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I don't really see how UT3 can be called PS3 exclusive when it is on the PC also.
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