Credits for TMK


There's been a lot of speculation about what you're doing for the next Mortal Kombat game...

Ed Boon: The only thing I can say at the moment is we are going to do a reset, we're going to throw everything from the previous Mortal Kombats, we're going to start from scratch and try to introduce as many new characters as possible, new features, new stuff like that and take advantage of the amazing presentation, graphics that all of a sudden you can do, things that are a lot more real.

It'll be a lot more realistic-looking, a lot grittier, dirtier, we're not going to joke around in this one, it's not going to be like jokes - it's going to be a real serious Mortal Kombat.

It's going to be a fighting game, definitely, but after that anything can go. We're not putting any restrictions like we HAVE to keep weapons or we HAVE to keep fighting styles and stuff like that.

So when are you going to start talking about the new Mortal Kombat game in full?

Ed Boon: It's probably not going to come out until then end of 2008, so I would imagine we probably wouldn't start talking about it until the beginning of 2008 maybe. So maybe another year or something like that. There's a lot of work, there's a lot of work that we're doing. The next-gen systems are so much work, it's overwhelming.

How will the power on tap will benefit the next game beyond visuals?

Ed Boon: There's just the visuals, the audio, the controller inputs. The PlayStation 3 controller has the motion sensor and whatnot and obviously the Wii, there's motions in there. We're just trying take advantage of all that, do the most we can with them.

Can we expect to see any more Mortal Kombat games released for download on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network?

Ed Boon: I would be surprised if we didn't do that. There's a lot of previous Mortal Kombat games to draw from that I would be surprised if we didn't do future downloadable versions - even exclusive versions that people never saw or something.

So there's a lot in the Mortal Kombat vault that's never seen the light of day?

Ed Boon: There's stuff that we had on the cutting room floor, like characters that we never used or something like that, and to add them into the mix could be a cool thing.