Why the arcade game and not the MK: Armageddon design?
Ed Boon: We’ve been fortunate enough to have some great success bringing back the “old-school” MK games to some of the newer consoles. We’ve had great online playing versions of MK2 and MK3 on the Xbox 360 and the PS3. The DS has never had an MK game before so we thought it was a perfect fit. Since UMK3 has already come out for the home, we wanted to also offer something that the previous versions didn’t have so we are including Puzzle Kombat. I’m not entirely sure we would be able to fit all of MK Armageddon on a DS cartridge. IGN: The previous Mortal Kombat updates for the Game Boy Advance, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance and Mortal Kombat Tournament Edition were excellent, but the last time the ****c Mortal Kombat 3 arcade game hit a Nintendo handheld it was, admittedly, horrific. Please do us a favor and put our minds at ease: how will you assure that this game will be arcade accurate on the Nintendo DS? Ed Boon: Oh come on now! 2.0 isn’t THAT bad of a score….it’s better than 0.0 !
