Coming Soon: Mortal Kombat Unchained for the PSP
Fatalities in your fist.
It's hardly the secret of the world but it's been a while since we
heard anything about it. Originally scheduled for a release late last
year, everything went quiet and it may have been assumed that this
venture was dead and buried. Midway has recently revealed new
information on
Mortal Kombat Unchained, the first Mortal Kombat game to hit the PSP. Despite the new subtitle.
Unchained is still pretty much a port of
Mortal Kombat Deception, which hit consoles back in 2004.
For this title we can expect to see multiple fatalities per character
and multi-tiered interactive backgrounds that we enjoyed in
Deception
as well as six new fighters. The game will offer playable versions
Kitana, Jax, Frost, Blaze, Goro and Shao Kahn. The latter two were
incidentally available on the GameCube version but it never reached PAL
shores. Depending on your perspective, it's either better or worse that
the Konquest has come to the PSP as well. Here, you can embark on a
single-player mission with heightened character control,
computer-controlled characters and hidden extras. It's good to know
that Midway decided to include it, because it adds some meat to the
title (even if it can be dodgy at times).
Chess and Puzzle Kombat have made it over as well. There's even an
all-new Endurance mode where players will contend with waves of
combatants. It's unclear whether these modes will come locked, or
whether you will access them straight out of the box. The game will
make use of the PSP's wireless Ad-Hoc functionality. Currently, Midway
has revealed that
Unchained
includes head-to-head matches, but there's no word on other multiplayer
modes or play over the internet. It's set for release sometime in Q3 of
this year.
PALGN will bring you more information as it becomes available and maybe even a screenie or two.
Source:
PALGN