Mortal Kombat needs to innovate for next game, says Ed Boon
- Posted September 6th, 2012 at 06:45 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Mortal Kombat big cheese Ed Boon has revealed that the next entry in the venerable beat-‘em-up series must bring plenty of new ideas to the table.
Speaking with CVG, Boon, co-creator of the series alongside John Tobias, suggested that simply adding new characters to the roster of the next game won’t be enough, and that innovation is more crucial.
“Just philosophically, I don't think we could take the approach of doing the same thing but adding new characters in our next Mortal Kombat game," he said.
"We definitely want to do something new with it, we feel we have to introduce something into the mix."
Developer NetherRealm is currently working on a new title by the name of Injustice: Gods Among Us, with development of a new Mortal Kombat title yet to begin.
However, Boon went on to indicate that the next game will appear on next-generation consoles, believing releasing a sequel on current systems would forgo the chance to offer fresh ideas.
"If you introduce another edition of your game on the same console, you cannot provide a radically different experience," explained Boon.
"I'm sure, if we were to do a new Mortal Kombat game on next generation systems, I think we would be able to provide dramatically different experiences."
Above all however, Boon wants to avoid simply rehashing the same ideas with each iteration, noting that doing so will impede upon sales over time.
"I'm a big fan of fighting games, but some of them I've seen are just a re-skin of the same game with much prettier graphics and new characters," added Boon.
"Effectively it just delivers the same experience, and over the course of time these games sell less and less and less and less. I think you need to offer something that hasn't been done before. Like with Injustice, no one has done what we're doing with the game's backgrounds, and I think that's a big part of why it will appeal to fans."
Injustice: Gods Among Us is due out in 2013.
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- 3:34pm EDT - September 6th, 2012
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my thoughts of injustice is that its going to be really fun but have you thought of making mortal kombat go against killer instinct charecters? that would be epic sinder versus scorpion glacius vs subzero lol can you say epic tag team this has been somthing i always was thinking of now that im in graphic design classes just thought id say somthing i would hope mr ed boon would take it into consideration i think it would bring alot of people back into fighting games with brutalities friendships humiliations all that along with the all powerful fatalities if you think its a good idea just message me in my email Taciouse@live.com
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Nollictitan- 9:16pm EDT - September 10th, 2012
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This is a simple one... If people want to play a fighting game there are a LOT of options. but if you want an ADULT fighting game there is only one option. MORTAL KOMBAT!!! No game can compare to it. Street fighter, Tekken, DOA, they are all the same game. they are all normal fighting games who of which have fan boys but no game can compare with blood, gore, and all out brutalness. The only fighting franchise I willplay....besides Injustice
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