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Mortal Kombat Team Looking to Bail on Midway?
by Nick Breckon, Apr 03, 2009 3:53pm PDTThe internal Midway team responsible for development on the Mortal Kombat series is looking to leave the company, according to a Kotaku report citing anonymous sources.
The report says the team, which most recently developed Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, is currently in talks with various publishers in an effort to relocate.
Sources indicated that the search for a new home began after Midway failed to pay out bonuses for meeting Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe sales targets. Midway representatives claim that the unsecured creditors committee is holding up the payments.
Midway announced earlier this month a plan to sell the Mortal Kombat franchise. At the time, Midway had proposed an incentive plan to give bonuses to remaining employees, while admitting it would be unable to reimburse ex-employees for unused paid time off.
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MK vs DC.... what next? MK vs Nintendo?
Die already midway.
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This game's charm was the bloodbath, the brutality, and the speed of the fighting. They need to go back and look at MK2/3 and take some notes from Street Fighter IV.
They seem to do something to the franchise in each game that makes it lame, ridiculous long combos, impossible fatalities, multiple fighting styles, reliance on the fighting with no practical use for the special moves, the RUN button, fatalities where the person is not killed... or killed off camera, 3D :)
Hopefully it will get picked up by someone who can breathe some new life into it with good, fun ideas.
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I mean, how do you spin that one?
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