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Mortal Kombat fighters like you've never seen them before photo

Commence hyperventilating.

Back when Vincent Proce was working over at Midway, he submitted a pitch for a new Mortal Kombat. The game in question was to be a total overhaul of the series' "original premise" with "modern mutiplayer and dismemberment game design."

I can understand if that alone may not sell you on the idea, but oh man, this art he created to go along with the pitch makes me wonder how the proposal was turned down. It's so. Effing. Awesome. Seriously, if you've ever enjoyed a Mortal Kombat game before, you owe it to yourself to see his blog post.

Also, make sure to view the high-res versions by clicking those pictures. Although, with Sonya depicted the way she is, I don't think I even need to tell you to do so. You probably checked her out before you even read this post, you jerk.

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Technophile's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 05:11
Technophile
Just a warning, I'm going to make a very snarky comment.

Those designs are completely badass. However, the bland descriptions of the characters, terribly buzzword laden and generic descriptions of what exactly he wanted to do with the reboot from a gameplay perspective and the terrible grammar throughout the blog post give me an idea of why his pitch might not have been taken seriously.
Stevil's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 05:13
Stevil
Oooh, you know it's 'dark', 'mature' and other industy buzzwords when the characters sport tattoos! That said, I do like the Scorpion and Raiden redesigns. They suit the characters more than the Sonja and Cyber-Yojimbo...I mean Kano...overhauls.
Rider Chop's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 05:27
Rider Chop
damn Sonya Blade has got dem tittays.
KoKoO Psy's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 05:28
KoKoO Psy
I honestly mistook the header image for Adam Dork.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 05:30
Jon B
Grimdark Kombat.

But seriously, that's some fucking incredible artwork. It's a shame it got turned down, but concept art alone does not make a good game.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 05:43
Chronic Logic
I never did truly understand the plot to fighting games. Backstory for the fightes is good and all to make the characters interesting and unique. But the story plot? How does that fit in? You basically have two fighters duking it out each match until you beat the last boss character in the last match. Hell you don't even need a plot story. The whole plot is just an excuse to explain the reason why people are beating each other up in a tournament.

Note that I just dislike plot story when the single player story mode just boils down to having your character fighting another character, then advancing to the next round and repeat the proccess until you finally fight the boss character. Once you beat that character, then you get treated to some cinematic video or wall of text showing the ending for that your specific character player. I prefer the "Edge Master Mode" in the first Soul Edge game. That felt more like a story and enjoyable.
Stahlbrand's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 05:46
Stahlbrand
[i]bland discriptions, buzzword laden and generic[i] - this is a pitch we're talking about here afterall.

But seriously, this is the first time since the release of MK2 that anything to do with the series has elicted more than a sneer of contempt from me. They must have been mixing coke and quailudes in the boardroom to pass up on this (I mean, thats the kind of drug suit'n'table dicks do right?).
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 06:22
Monodi
DWARFINATOR
TheToiletDuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 06:43
TheToiletDuck
Sonja and Cyber-Yojimbo...I mean Kano...overhaul

That's what i thought too.
Turbofail's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 07:45
Turbofail
Dark and gritty. oh yay.
BattyAdroit's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 07:49
BattyAdroit
That previous comment was my speechlessness, after viewing such neat redesigns.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 08:02
Xzyliac
@ChronicLogic
Ever seen a porn with a plot? Yeah. Well just think about it like that.
Trevor McGee's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 08:11
Trevor McGee
There's a reason why they dropped the whole "half Japanese, half US" crap for Kano, it was stupid. Also, Trevor Goddard (R.I.P.) kicked ass as Kano in the movie and made Kano actually cool.
ScottyG's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 08:37
ScottyG
Good to see I'm not the only one who noticed YoJimbo has gotten a side-job cosplaying Kano. ^_^
TheToiletDuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 08:39
TheToiletDuck
@Xzyliac: What about Night Dreams?
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 08:40
GuitarAtomik
Awesome. An overhaul is exactly what Mortal Kombat needs. Take it back to a point where it wasn't quite so goofy and just save that stuff for the Vs games.
SimonM7's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 08:47
SimonM7
This art has been floating around for a while, but I must point out that if you look at the Deadly Alliance/Deception artwork, that kicks terrifying amounts of ass too.

It's just that in the transistion from artwork into 3D, they turn into retarded looking puppets.
sogmasta's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 08:51
sogmasta
I'm diggin raiden's design and a bit of scorpion's too (although the yellow paint/blood/puke is kinda lame) but the rest of the redesigns are ...eh. Sonya's alright but why the hell would someone wearing , basically, a bikini to a fight have just ONE
somnambulist's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 08:52
somnambulist
I was feeling it until I saw the Sonia one. That thing looked like a twelve-year-old drew it. Each individual tit was bigger than her whole head. And what was that star supposed to be? Was that supposed to mean she's law enforcement? Because, you know, they still use badges like that. And why does she have a medieval gauntlet thing AND a katana AND a fucking pistol? She wasn't even wearing shorts! At least Lara Croft wore short-shorts. They problably got one look at that picture and all good will for whatever he was doing was lost immediately. I wouldn't blame them. The other ones were cool but Jesus!
PappaDukes's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 10:24
PappaDukes
One fucking word: Kano. Bad-fucking-ass.
The Pat Man's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 10:29
The Pat Man
I really like the Kano design. He's always been my favorite character and I think the design looks badass. It's unique looking and makes the half American, half Japanese idea work. Actually, all the concepts are badass except for Sonya's.

How can this idea be turned down? I mean the dismemberment game design really worked in Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. It added some new flavor to the fighting game genre where you have to be prepared and ready to loose a limb, thus not being able to perform some moves. It added some spice by making every match feel unique as well as a gives very satisfying feeling when you beat your opponent after losing a limb or two. In my opinion, this idea is what Mortal Kombat needs
Arch649's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 11:03
Arch649
Never really been a fan of Mortal Kombat, but those concept drawings are pretty cool.
Booerns's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 11:30
Booerns
sick, wanna suck kano in that pic, he looks trashy as hell
Proc's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 11:45
Proc
Booerns :
"sick, wanna suck kano in that pic, he looks trashy as hell"

What...?
VampireChrist's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 12:18
VampireChrist
i love the 'my boyfriend was an aspiring tattoo artist and gave me this when i was 15' ankh tattoo that sonyas rockin
The White Light's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 12:19
The White Light
Those pictures are pretty amazing. The current MK aesthetic is tired and silly. With Armageddon and MK vs DC they only got closer to the sensibilities of MK3 and MK4 that they originally tried to sway from with MK5. The overall story has also gotten completely convoluted, and it never has been that great. A grittier re-imagining could be just the thing I would need to be interested in the series again. Honestly though, they really just need to give the series to a new development studio. While they're fun, no MK game has ever been truly good.
Aziel13's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 13:33
Aziel13
Needs to be more brutal
MOAR! blood
and does anyone else see a slight resemblance to our very own Y0j1mb0
MCChampaignMillionaire's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 15:07
MCChampaignMillionaire
This looks impressive
HeadWoundCity's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 16:50
HeadWoundCity
Looks like this Vincent guy had something pretty good going with these. Seems a shame they'll never be used.
ace of knaves's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 18:53
ace of knaves
That's pretty badass.
NinMicroSega's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 22:23
NinMicroSega
What's with the lack of Vincent Price jokes?
Modern Robot's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2009 23:41
Modern Robot
Zombie Ninja...you'd think this would be a easy sell...
pinstonlee's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/20/2009 10:32
pinstonlee
those pics were pretty badass, except raiden looked funny cause his hat was too far down his face but nonetheless i bet it would bring up a lot of hype if any fighter looked like that
trunxkam45's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/24/2009 00:00
trunxkam45
all he did was put a sword on everyone's back. Raiden sucks the way he's drawn there. Mortal Kombat is not a series to be taken seriously so why do artists always go in that direction?
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