Month: March 2018

Even though we live in a post Mortal Kombat 9 world, it’s hard not to think of Mortal Kombat 4 when you hear the phrase “3D Mortal Kombat”. It was the first game in the series to abandon its signature digitized sprites, and the jump to clunky polygonal models was a jarring experience, for many.

Of course, the ambitious jump to 3D was never going to recreate what they had accomplished in their previous games — particularly not with the technology available in 1997.

But what if the 3D pivot Mortal Kombat took still played with the original series’ sprites? That’s what Bitplex asks with their take on fan-favorite Mortal Kombat II, and the results are fantastic. Instead of forcing more realism onto the MK world, they embrace the unique quality of MK’s original sprites, while still bringing them into the 3D realm.

Rarely do big video game companies pluck an artist to work for their team just based off of fan work — but if NRS did take Bitplex‘s idea and flesh it out into a 3D-ified MKII revision, I imagine it would sell quite well.

Source: Bitplex