I think it's true for all characters,male and female. Just nobody's paying attention to the guys faces. They all have weird bone structure and shading in the face.Look at Stryker in MKA

Guess they've never seen a real female in their life HUR HUR HUR.

I think most of the females look fantastic. Could you provide a more specific example? Sonya's face looked quite good outside the render (ironically).

I find NIghtwolf and Kung Lao pretty ugly and stupid looking on theyr VS renders.

I really find it dumb how anyone could care about how hot the women in the game are.

I thought Sonya looked HOT for MKvsDCU, I really liked that look

okay you gotta remember, that these are females that fight... and most woman that can fight do not have the looks of a super model!

and if they are fighter there not gunna care about there looks because they will be hit in the face alot!

I was suprised to see Mileena has black nail varnish on... now can you really imagen her sitting there and painting her nails really lol

Yeah I am going to have to say"What are you talking about?!"
I have nothing to complain about they look fine to me.

This....



....and this.

Sonya's face model looks absolutely gorgeous in the game. Its arguably her best look and a known top favorite among the team (who complimented and applauded her look more than once during MKvsDC) and the fans who enjoyed the nice mixture of sexiness, femininity, and toughness that they gave Sonya.

She looks beautiful in her ingame cut-scenes and absolutely perfect in her Ending Render and in the Rendered Loading screens. Seriously, the best Sonya. Ever!

BUT, KitanaHime is right about her/his points. (read below)



Actually, I think KitanaHime has a point. I have to agree about the faces in some rendered pictures. The team really seems to have a problem with faces in renders (even male faces! go look back at the ugly male faces in MKSM and MKA).

As perfect as Sonya looks in the game and in all her other rendered pictures, her first render picture definitely made her look butch and a bit manly.

The same can be said about the manly faces of Kira in MKD (in game too, sadly), Kitana in MKvsDC and MKDA's alternate (that face in your icon, for example), Li Mei in MKDA (she looked good in game though), and anyone remember how horrible Sareena's face is in MKA??? And Wonderwoman's face render was horrible, but she looked perfect in the game!

So, yeah, they all don't look "that bad" in their renders. For the most part they look great and some even perfect "in the game" and the other "extra rendered pictures" (or cut scenes), but KitanaHime definitely has a point that some of them don't look quite right as they should be. I think they did a good job in the big MKA poster though (featuring all characters). The girls look pretty sexy and feminine there.

@ KitanaHime: Like I have been saying above, I agree with your observation and you definitely have a point, however, regarding your comments about Mileena (and my already elaborated post about Sonya), I disagree. Mileena looks great! Very beautiful and sexy...give me a variation of her MKD primary costume/look and I will say: Perfect! I think they made her face really good.

But, we have to wait for her "first" big official render to see what's up. But, so far so good, and IMO, the important thing is that she looks greta in-game and in all those loading pictures that we are going to see all the time. If she looks mainly in her big render, I will be disappointed and upset at the Team for failing to do justice to female faces (seriously, what's up with you guys!?), but not entirely, considering how great she already looks.

In MKvDCU Sonya looked like she got hit by the BUTCH TRAIN.

This.

Can you imagine her taking the time to shave down below? But apparently she does, if her (barely) outfit is anything to go by.

But yeah I agree, I don't think they were capable of producing a feminine, pretty female character facially before. They've always looked quite manly in renders. Although the ones in MKvsDC were an improvement. Sonya is one of the best example of always looking quite manly/ugly in renders lol...

I don't think that Mileena has man face. I've looked through a few videos and I just don't see what you're seeing. I mean, for one thing, she has a mask on that's covering a Tarkatan mouth, but regardless, I don't see man-face at all.

I mean, I know what you're describing. I know what Sonya looked like in MK:DA and the women in MK:D weren't much better. In MKvsDC, Sonya was a little better, but in her render, her jaw line still seemed to be too sharp and her facial shape looked as though she could easily be a guy if you took away the hair and makeup.

I'm hoping for an improvement in MK2011, and so far Mileena seems fine to me. I think that Sonya and Kitana will be the real tests though, as I'm assuming Kitana will have at least one unmasked costume.

No offense but you might have some issues if you are seriously worrying about how hott videogame characters are

Would you rather the women of MK looked fugly?

Why would someone have issues for that?

The new MK looks more realistic than say, I don't know, Renaissance paintings. But if someone said a women in a 17th century painting looked attractive, would you say they had issues?

Paintings in the 17th century were usually of someone real. Videogame characters are not

A half-tarkatan woman looking unattractive? Weird...

Hahaha I cannot believe that something like their faces bothers you,, whats next? Are you going to say your not a fan and it bothers you how all the female characters have huge boobs....

Then imagine someone rendered two characters models. The first one is modeled after a randomly selected woman who happens to be incredibly attractive; the second model is designed from scratch but contains attractive features.

Without knowledge from the creators, there's no way of knowing which one was rendered from an actual person, so I don't see how someone can have issues for finding one attractive and not have issues for feeling the same way about the other. For all we know, EVERY MK female could have had real human source material.

Maybe I just have your claim wrong. Are you saying it's weird to have a biological response to seeing a video game render, or that it's weird to acknowledge this response and indulge it? Cause I semi-agree with the latter.

You're right. MK really needs to get with the times and and realize that their girls aren't just assassins, soldiers, demons, and undead banshees... they're hot, sexy, nubile women with succulent curves, delicate features, and secret passions for shopping, dancing, sunbathing, and dress up.

... or maybe I'm just getting my games mixed up again.

I don't really think showing those is defending the MK team much. I have to agree they really struggle with female physiology in their character designs. They're still just every bit as skimpy in the costume department as their Dead or Alive and Soul Calibur counterparts though. Simply because they aren't as girlish doesn't exactly mean the MK team design the females any more realistically.

If Mileena wore her outfits to a real fight, they'd pretty much fall completely off in less than a minute. I really don't care for that design, but I've probably mentioned that fact here or there.

i agree with you it doesnt help the situation but does show Mortal Kombats individuality in having bad-ass warrior female characters and not ditsy girly girl characters

HA!!

Or they could try to make a real warrior female.