Boon wanted 360-exclusive Mortal Kombat character

by Steve Watts, Apr 20, 2011 8:45am PDT

Related Topics – Mortal Kombat, xbox 360, PlayStation 3

By now you've had some time to punch, kick, and rip out spines in Mortal Kombat. If you're playing on Xbox 360, though, your roster is one man short compared to the PlayStation 3 version, which includes Kratos. After the God of War tie-in, fans kept waiting for a 360-exclusive reveal that never came.

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Eurogamer reports that game director Ed Boon did want the system to have its own character as well, but it didn't work out. "Unfortunately, the circumstances didn't allow us to make a 360 exclusive," said Boon. "I'm not allowed to talk too much about it, but I can tell you we certainly wanted to do an exclusive for 360, but that's all I can say. It was not a decision we made where we said, oh, let's not do one for the 360."

Boon didn't disclose who may have been the final choice, but did drop a few names that were considered. "Anybody who's really knowledgeable about the Xbox video games, the big titles, names like Master Chief from Halo, Marcus Fenix from Gears of War, and any other Xbox exclusive title, is going to come up in a conversation in talking about it," he said. "So clearly we've discussed it."

Now Master Chief probably isn't the type for Mortal Kombat's particularly brutal violence, and Marcus Fenix using a Lancer from hip to sternum just seems too obvious. So by process of elimination, that leaves only one possibility. That's right: Banjo and Kazooie.

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  Steve, you meant to say 'Blinx' : LoioshDwaggie
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    I wish they made Blinx 3 on the 360 :( : valcan_s
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      I didn't even realize there was a 2. I played the original. : Haxim
      
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      Yeah the orig is awesome love it, 2 is really good too its just the beginning tutorial is so freaking lon... : valcan_s
      
      It's too bad they don't have those up on Xbox Originals. : Haxim
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  I wish they were able to get Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden. Sure he eventually appeared on PS3, but he ... : pigvomit
  - That would of fit perfectly and would of been awesome. Too bad :( : valcan_s
  - That wouldn't have been a bad choice actually. How are you people liking the game btw? Haven't been onl... : humbleone
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    the problem with that i think is that he already is part of another fighting game (DoA) so I don't know i... : skelom
    - If Namco and SNK can play well with Capcom, it's possible that it might work for Tecmo/NetherRealm. : pigvomit
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    i'm not sure MK needs another ninja character : kevp
    - Even with this game, that thought has never been taken seriously at Netherrealm. : Grimp
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    He's cross platform, no dice. Really Halo or Gears characters are the only two Xbox exclusive franchies t... : MoreVespeneGas
    - Why does an exclusive character have to come from an exclusive franchise? Spawn for Soul Calibur 2 wasn'... : pigvomit
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  Marcus Fenix would have been awesome : bozer
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    I'm sure Fenix would stand a chance in melee with any MK kombatant. : razlebol
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      If Stryker can be a kombatant, Fenix sure as hell could be one. Hell, Fenix has much more brutal means t... : pigvomit
      
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      Stryker is lame though :P But yeah, if Stryker can be a kombatant, I guess Fenix could too. : razlebol
      
      I think the Cole Train would have been a better fit. Cole vs. Jax? Yes plox. : ChaosNovaXZ
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  At least the lack of an exclusive character wasn't NetherRealm's fault. But here's the bigger issue: I do... : David Craddock
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    Why is there a rule that it has to be an exclusive to the system? Soul Calibur 2 had Spawn and he wasn't... : pigvomit
    - There's no rule that states that, true. I think people (including myself) assumed that would be the case ... : David Craddock
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    They should've had Alan Wake as the 360 exclusive character. : ColoradoCNC
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      LOL : skelom
      
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      ^ HP = flashlight blinding : skelom
      
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      wow that sucked... i guess angle braces are not welcomed in the chatty
      
      Apr 20, 2011 11:10am PDT
      
      wow that sucked... i guess angle braces are not welcomed in the chatty : skelom
    - Fatality: Crushed by various falling logos / marketed items. : dedgecko
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  Banjo would have been awesome! : BouillonCubes
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    lol : humbleone
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      and then they should have created cross platform online capability for just Banjo (360) vs Kratos (PS3). ... : humbleone
      
      When you fight him it should open with a banjo solo. : one random winner
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  Wasn't it because CliffyB forgot to send over artwork to NetherRealm? How much of a douche bag can you be... : AgentPothead
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    Where did you hear this? : BouillonCubes
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      I'm pretty sure it was posted to CliffyB's twitter. : AgentPothead
      
      I think CliffyB posted on twitter that he would have been interested in having a gears character in MK, b... : Haxim
  - Well it's difficult since he is the only person who works there. : socksta
- If anything this sounds like WB / Nethersoft / Boon and Co were asking for too much money for the "exclus... : dedgecko
- sam fischer (more like kasumi amirite) : Foxhawk
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  Maybe thats why Xbox never got the demo. Kind of a FU back to Microsoft. Worked if you asked me, saw more... : supermonkeyballz
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    Yeah, a bunch of people I know who own both a 360 and PS3 are buying MK for PS3. Usually we'll buy cross... : pigvomit
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      I have both, I think the Xbox 360 version is better graphically(not sure if anyone cares, or if it really... : valcan_s
      
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      No one cares about better graphic of xbox 360. You're very stupid to say. Wii, Playstation 3, and Xbox 3... : commanderxp90
      
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      i'll just leave this here: "lol" : RikiTiki2
      
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      I second this motion. Let the record show: "lol" : oO SilentK Oo
      
      motion passed! : purekillforce
      
      why hello mister troll. : dedgecko
      
      valcan_s got told : skelom
      
      Your post history is pretty impressive: http://www.shacknews.com/search?chatty=1&type=4&chatty_term=xbox&... : Haxim
    - How much of that is because of the Kratos bonus character and how much is because the PS3 d-pad is better... : oO SilentK Oo
    - I have both systems and went PS3 on this as well. : pun][sher
    - MK3 is my first real game for the PS3, aside from Portal 2 (which I got on the same day today). The rest ... : dodob
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  Not Xbox Exclusive, but Isaac from Dead Space would have been a cool fit. : MaxPete82
  - Oooooh, great idea! : David Craddock
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    great idea. He could have awesome dismemberment fatalities. looking at the list of exclusives, other name... : jvox
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      lol alan wake's fatality is he shines a flashlight under his chin and tells you a ghost story : Dravenport
      
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      or pulls out a thermos and scalds you with hot coffee : jvox
      
      thats CJ from san andreas : Dravenport
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    Or a Big Daddy / Little Sister combo. There's an endless cast of characters that would have no problem b... : dedgecko
    - You really wanna hear "Mister Bubbles No!" ever time he looses. Actually I take that back a little sister... : johnlocks
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  Bayonetta is the only answer. She would have been a perfect fit. : HL3dsx
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    What would her fatality have been? : humbleone
    - Her hair chomping somebody up. : HL3dsx
    - High heels in the Femoral artery BARF : Chipwarrior
    - Death by Japanese Techno Pop music : dedgecko
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  Microsoft obviously hates freedom. Fenix would have been a perfect fit. Enjoying it on my PS3 however! : Wolfanoz
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    Fenix would have been a terrible fit. : pancake humper
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      Ryu? : EvilDolemite
      
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      Assuming you mean Ryu from Ninja Gaiden, that is a much better overall choice : pancake humper
      
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      i think msgs published that right? so they could use him. i can't think of many other appropriate charac... : EvilDolemite
      
      Yep, MSGS published it. There really isn't an 'appropriate' character that MS has like Kratos. Kratos loo... : pancake humper
- i kinda like not having a exclusive non mk character. i guess i'm a purist : theWhite
- yo, boon, where the fuck is this 360 demo, huh? : purekillforce
- I want Commander Keen in a PC exclusive version. : jeffcox111
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  the Test Your Luck stuff looks to be a blast. : mwasher
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    but it doesn't work online??!?! >:( : mwasher
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      yeah :( : pancake humper
      
      that blows : mwasher
    - It's better that they keep it fairly vanilla for online. They could have added that for private matches,... : Grimp
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  A halo elite would have been fun. Energy sword and plasma grenade fatalities. : Beady
  - When this came up in a discussion I had earlier, we came to the same conclusion when someone brought up t... : Zollington
- subthread nuked? : xylothan
- Was planning to get 360 version as thats what my fighting stick is... but kratos is awesome. Hmm : apocreg
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  the reason why there was no 360 character is because it would have to be a Microsoft OWNED franchise char... : Dark Drakonis
  - In other words Microsoft doesn't seem to own any real exclusive characters anymore!! I was hoping it wou... : agentboolen

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