The New Mortal Kombat Is the Old Mortal Kombat
If anyone was worried that the new Mortal Kombat game was going to improve anyway upon the old Mortal Kombat games, this video should set you at ease. It’s a montage of Scorpion’s moves, complete with the horrible, generic attack detection and ludicrous launching and air combos that make Street Fighter look realistic and nuanced. Yes, it appears that you can occasionally break someone’s bones in the game — in addition to actual Fatalities, I would suppose — and if you’d rather have that thank, say, an even slightly decent fighting engine, more power to you. Frankly, what sums this new MK up for me is that the video is titled “Scorpion’s Killer Moves,” and 5/6ths of the video is Scorpion doing the exact same punches and kicks that he’s be doing since 1992. “Killer” indeed.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.