Mortal Kombat 9

Great! Liu Kang was just a generic Bruce Lee-wannabe with a lame bicycle kick move. Kung Lao is a far better design inspired by Oddjob and some guy from Big Trouble in Little China.

Shao Kahn and Shang seem like the two I am most interested in playing as for this one.

MK now has super moves.

http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/06/17/mortal-kombat-e3-impressions/

Select Screen:
http://www.trmk.org/images/mk9/MortalKombat_E3_SelectScreen_Tedakin.jpg

Scorpion's mask looks much like an update version of his MKvDC mask.

This is GREAT news!

Game looks awesome with or withour Liu Kang, I always liked to have him in the game, hes part of MK, he needs to be there.

But most importantly, just give us JAX! 🙂 WITHOUT metal arms, "I got everything I need right here!" hehe. 2D YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! Mk2-3 setting HELL YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

DLC Characters confirmed

http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/06/17/mortal-kombat-characters-dlc-confirmed/

The new hero should be Kung Lao or Sub-Zero. May Liu Lame be optional.

Whoa, whoa, people, Boon said that a character is going back to the past. He didn't say who and I doubt they'd leave Liu Kang out anyway. Love him or hate him, Liu Kang is an iconic MK character and he still got many fans.

Also, here's a new interview:

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/mortalkombat9/video/6266626

Game is looking great so far.

Also, as much as you guys hate Liu Kang so much, you should WANT him in the game as that would give you a chance to kill him in gruesome ways. Not that I want it to happen, I'm just saying. This is an M-rated MK game afterall.

Originally posted by Sin_Volvagia
Great! Liu Kang was just a generic Bruce Lee-wannabe with a lame bicycle kick move. Kung Lao is a far better design inspired by Oddjob and some guy from Big Trouble in Little China.

How can Liu Kang be any more generic than Fei Long or Law? Compared to them, Liu Kang is very unique and not much of a wannabe (hech, he hardly even resembles Bruce Lee). Besides, as big Bruce Lee is/was, I'm glad that there is a fighting series out there that features Bruce Lee type character as the protagonist and not just some side character.

Liu Kang is probably the most hated main character of any particular fighting franchise.

Siegfried is loved. Jin Kazama is loved. Ryu is loved etc.

Not so much with Liu Kang. I think Boon and them picked up on this pretty early.

Kinda disappointed that its back to 2d movement now.

I loved Deception and Deadly Alliance.

Originally posted by CosmicComet
Liu Kang is probably the most hated main character of any particular fighting franchise.

Siegfried is loved. Jin Kazama is loved. Ryu is loved etc.

Not so much with Liu Kang. I think Boon and them picked up on this pretty early.

Liu Kang is loved too.

Originally posted by Bro SMASH
Liu Kang is loved too.

Liu Kang sucks.

However, looking forward to the game.

I don't think this is a good Idea to put in the same season as MvC 3

Originally posted by Sin_Volvagia
MK now has super moves.

http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/06/17/mortal-kombat-e3-impressions/

Select Screen:
http://www.trmk.org/images/mk9/MortalKombat_E3_SelectScreen_Tedakin.jpg

Originally posted by Sin_Volvagia
DLC Characters confirmed

http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/06/17/mortal-kombat-characters-dlc-confirmed/

Originally posted by Bro SMASH
Whoa, whoa, people, Boon said that [b]a character is going back to the past.[/b]

Originally posted by Bro SMASH
How can Liu Kang be any more generic than Fei Long or Law? Compared to them, Liu Kang is very unique and not much of a wannabe (hech, he hardly even resembles Bruce Lee).

Originally posted by Phanteros
I don't think this is a good Idea to put in the same season as MvC 3

Originally posted by Phanteros
I don't think this is a good Idea to put in the same season as MvC 3

So wait, MK9 is coming out around the same time MvC3 comes out? I'm not psychic but I know that in the future, MvC3 will be having the higher sales.

Originally posted by CosmicComet
Liu Kang is probably the most hated main character of any particular fighting franchise.

Really?

thats a new one to me.

If the opposite was true, he probably wouldn't of gotten killed off the way he did in Deadly Alliance.

Only hate i knew of was for Shinnok i kept on hearing about but not Liu Kang.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
So wait, MK9 is coming out around the same time MvC3 comes out? I'm not psychic but I know that in the future, MvC3 will be having the higher sales.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
And Kung Lao is the most likely one based on the Armageddon endings. Because of his altering of the past, Liu Kang never competed in a Mortal Kombat tournament. As a result, it wouldn't make sense for Liu to appear in MK9, regardless of how iconic he may be.

In his ending, Kung Lao went a hundred years in the past. This game only goes back to MK1.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
His MK1 sprite certainly does.

Well the game was meant to be a quick project so they weren't really trying to be detailed in the designs. He was still one of the earlier Bruce Lee-inspired characters in a fighting game, predating the two I just mentioned.