For those of you who may not be in the know. Midway is attempting to breath new life into their successful Mortal Kombat series by clashing it with the DC Universe. In the latest episode of Gamtrailers Tv Geoff Keighly interviewed the team behind the game to find out more about it. Here's a quick run down of that interview.

Characters
DC Universe- Batman, Superman, The Flash, and Catwoman

MK Universe- Sub Zero, Scorpion, Shang Tsung, and Sonya

Arenas
The Batcave
Metropolis
Hell
The Graveyard

Gameplay
Ed Boon the creative director for the game explains that there are three different fighting styles that will be employed throughout the game.
The first is tha classic arcade punch, kick, special move etc....

The second is called close fighting where you grab your oponent and bring him in close for a pounding described to be similar to a boxing game.

The third is termed free fall combat which allows you to continue to fight with your opponent as you fall to another level of the arena you are fighting in.


Random Ramblings

There are fatalities for the MK characters and DC villians, but the Heroes will have non-lethal fatalities because the developers feel that the heroes wouldn't actually kill their opponents. Scorpion will have his old burn to death finisher from MK I and II. I'm glad they didn't stick with the "create a fatlaity" like in the last one.

There will be visible damage to the characters as well as costume damage.

They are going for a "T" rating as opposed to the standard "M" whic is kind of a bummer.

They are not sure if downlobale content will be made available for the game which I think would be lame as this game is full of opportunities to add more characters and arenas.

There will be online play. Which is a no brainer.

Jimmy Polmiotti reports that the end battle is epic and there are more than two characters fighting in it.

All in all this game looks promising so far in my opinion. The combat looks excellent as well as the general gritty design of the game. As a long time fan of the Mortal Kombat series it's nice to see them try something new to revitalize the franchise which hasn't been as impressive lately. I hope it works.