Gears of War visuals inspire Mortal Kombat 8

**Vikingod** · Feb 5, 2007, 06:47 AM

Source: CVG
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Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon has revealed how's he planning a "down and dirty" visual style for the eighth game in the beat'-'em-series, citing Epic's Gears of War as the 'look' he's aiming for.

"Our goal, graphically, with this game is to be as gritty... To me, when I saw Gears of War, I was like, "Holy s***! That's the look that we've been talking about... Visually, that's what we want to do," he explained in an interview with Game Informer.

Epic's Unreal Engine 3, which powered Gears, is being used for Mortal Kombat 8.

Speaking further about the sequel, Boon promised that "we're doing something with the next game that's unbelievably unexpected", adding that gameplay-wise it's a complete start-over for MK8.

Sandok · Feb 5, 2007, 07:06 AM

Oooooooo now I'm all giddy and impatiant

Guyver2K5 · Feb 5, 2007, 02:37 PM

Awsome

~~DudeBoyz~~ · Feb 5, 2007, 02:41 PM

I thought that franchise was dead?

I got Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance and stopped there. That game is awesome. I can impale people with Sub Zero's sword!

I need to see how that Gears of War game looks.

SFOSOK · Feb 5, 2007, 05:56 PM

Its goin to be bit of overkill when you slash someone 10 times and they don't die, only squirt blood everywhere.

~~DudeBoyz~~ · Feb 5, 2007, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by SFOSOK

Its goin to be bit of overkill when you slash someone 10 times and they don't die, only squirt blood everywhere.

But that's kind of what Mortal Kombat is all about - the blood.

When you impale them, their health goes down continuously until they die. You can just step back and block and they will still die, so that's good against really strong bosses.

They took out the Impale feature in the subsequent MK releases, so I didn't buy them.