Wow, less than a month after I wrote about the gaming crossover, here's one we didn't see coming! Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe! What??

"Koming soon"? Jeez, we are SO over the whole K thing already! How about just re-releasing that terrible MORTAL KOMBAT!!! techno song again while you're at it?

So before I get all cynical and rip into this news, I must admit that I loved MK as a kid, and just thinking about the series takes me back: writing down the fatality moves from Gamepro magazine and taking them to the arcades with me; being so so frightened of Baraka and the Dead Forest stage in MK2 (and of telling my mum that buying the Game Boy version was a waste of money and I wanted to take it back to the shop); memorising Sub Zero's 6-hit combo in Ultimate MK3 (what was up with that 'run' button, eh?); having a crush on Sonja Blade (Kerri Hoskins).

[Awkward Silence.]

So after playing 'classic' MK2 on my neighbour's PS3 and downloading the UMK3 demo from Xbox Live, I've come to the conclusion that, man, if there were any games that should be left untouched so as to preserve their dignity, it would be the Mortal Kombat ones. They have not aged well AT ALL and I feel cheated in a looking-back-on-one's-precious-childhood kinda way.

This isn't even to mention all those abominable LOL MK games: Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, Mortal Kombat: Special Forces, Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, Mortal Kombat: Trying to Milk This as Much as We Can Before the Bubble Bursts...you get the picture. DC have hardly come up with a decent game at all (Superman Returns, Superman 64, oh dear me) and, Batman Begins apart, a worthwhile film for, what, twenty years? Which makes me think of Sharon Stone in Catwoman. On a separate note, has anyone seen Superman III lately? It was on TV a while back over here and I was watching Richard Pryor mess about, not knowing it was a Superman film until Christopher Reeve showed up. A Complete Joke and a real-life WTF? moment right there.

This crossover smacks of pure desperation to me, and is anyone even going to care? All MK had going for it, as time has told us, were the fatalities: maybe the most controversial gimmick in gaming ever. As for DC, I hope they gain more out of this as there really ought to be a good Superman or Batman game out there, and this surely is not it.

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So...what ridiculous features do you want to see in this game? Let's get a massive chain-combo (after pressing 'run') of ideas together! I'll start first: Johnny Cage punching Mr Freeze (Schwarzenegger version) in the balls!

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