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Monday, November 14, 2005

The walls quivered under the unmistakable; hypnotic vibe of an intense techno bass line calling for your soul as a voice abruptly breaks the barrier of electronic sound with a ungodly scream of "Mortal Kombat!" The theatre would never be the same that chilly November day in '95 as my fellow elementary school friends and I braced ourselves for the opening day of the movie adaption to the legendary, spine ripping, fatality filled, Mortal Kombat series.

Now in the dawn of our new century Mortal Kombat will grace the golden screen once again. The 3rd installment will be entitled DEVASTATION! They will be ignoring the horrid 2nd movie, Mortal Kombat: Annihlation and bringing back all the old favorites with the correct actors from the first flick. Though the director for this new film is only credited for making two other motion pictures, neither of which are very good movies. They are still action flicks and I guess that's all that really counts when you're making a movie about ninjas and demons that go around fighting each other for souls. Though the film is still in pre-production, it claims on IMDB that this little gem will be released within the year. Either way, if you're a video game fanatic, it's a movie to put on the list, based solely on nostalgia purposes.

More good news comes in the form of Mortal Kombat as they put out a new game, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon for the PS2 and X-Box this year. It looks like we might actually have a Mortal Kombat game that won't suck for the first time in seven years and this is not an assumption based on the hardcore title . The game will be sporting every character ever manifested within the strange world of Mortal Kombat, which is bad news for Sub Zero seeing as he'll be the only character in the game sharing his powers with his pussy, feminist apprentice, Frost. Why didn't game developers at Midway think of this really obvious idea years ago? I dont know. Why does Kano have an extra amount of chest hair in the Armageddon family portrait? I do not hold the answers to these questions. I am but a simple game playing peon putting my thoughts on the table for you to eat.

-Brandon

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