You'll be able to pick from two different special editions and, if you reserve your game, you'll get laced with some pre-order exclusive DLC.
Warner Bros has announced a release month for the upcoming Mortal Kombat, pegging the fighting game down as an April 2011 release, as opposed to the seasonal "Spring" listing it had before. But super eager fans can venture outside to major retailers as early as this afternoon in order to procure a pre-order ticket for one of two different special edition bundles, as well as retailer-tied character and fatality DLC.
The first of these special edition bundles is the "Kollector's Edition," which features Sub-Zero and Scorpion figurines, an art book, an "exclusive" classic Mortal Kombat costume skin, and themed avatar costumes. The other edition is the "Tournament Edition," which features a limited-release "portable fight stick" and another classic Mortal Kombat costume skin, as well as themed avatar costumes.
Pre-ordering either of these special editions, or even the vanilla edition of the pseudo-reboot, will get you additional "exclusive access" to DLC at Amazon, GameStop or Best Buy. I've created a little list here for your reading pleasure:
== TEASER == GameStop
"Klassic" Scorpion Playable Character Skin
Original Scorpion Fatality
Best Buy
"Klassic" Sub-Zero Playable Character Skin
Original Sub-Zero Fatality
Amazon
"Klassic" Reptile Playable Character Skin
Original Reptile Fatality
The DLC fatalities appear in addition to the two character-specific fatalities that each character will have by default. Amazon is the first of these retailers to release an image of this pre-order DLC. Check out Reptile's classic look:
In other Mortal Kombat news, God of War's Kratos was confirmed as a PS3-exclusive character at the Spike VGAs. According to WBIE, he'll have his own move set, fatality, and fighting arena. NetherRealm's Ed Boon spoke briefly about Kratos' inclusion in a recent press release. "We could not be more excited to have Kratos in the new Mortal Kombat, since we've always felt he would fit perfectly into our universe and can't wait for Mortal Kombat and God of War fans to play this game," he said.
And of course, to make the online work, all this content will have to exist on the disc anyway... More bribery to access content you have already paid for.
I refuse to pre-order games after MUA 2. I pre-ordered, paying essentially 10 extra dollars, to get the Juggernaut character. Then they NEVER GAVE ME A FUCKING CODE. Instead, I was supposed to call them for the code, because not only did they not give me one, they fucked up all the codes as well. And they released the character as DLC for $2. I easily would've just bought Juggernaut for the $2 and paid $50 for a used copy, had I known they were going to do that.
And then, to top it off, whoever owned the game didn't renew the license to sell DLC, so they took it all down, and I got fuck-all. Last time I pre-order.
EDIT: and if you have one of those GameStop 10% discount cards on used games, this really isn't worth it, because this content is only worth about $5 total, and you'll save $10 buying used.
While I'm not going to freak out about this, because it is less than surprising, I don't see the point in pissing all over the predominantly good will you have generated with this sort of move. I guess the incentives that the retailers supply for these deals outweighs the minor loss in new sales, but I will now be buying it used simply on principal.
Looking forward to this game a lot. Not enough for those silly pre-order "bonuses" though.
But the whole, "Let's put k's wherever a c should go!" thing is getting obnoxious. After reading "Klassic" 3 times, I'm ready for them to just drop the whole gimmick and call it Mortal Combat already. At least we'd be able to tell this game apart from the first one that way:)
LOL at the people getting pissed about the preorder stuff. Game devs have been doing through out this generation, and this isnt even that bad. All the stuff you get is old content, but in high res. Its the same skins and fatalities, or as they put, "Klassic"
Remember when you unlocked content instead of having to chain yourself to a specific retailer and still only come out with one part of a greater whole?
I don't get it. Everyone's still gonna have the costumes they would and both their fatalities. This has subtracted nothing from the equation, it's not like they said "everyone will have two fatalities, but to get these ones you'll need to pre-order." Don't like it? Don't preorder. Better yet, get it from a retailer who doesn't have a pre-order bonus (Amazon, Gamefly et al)
Quit yer bitchin', no one's forcing you to buy any of this and it's going to be DLC a month or so after release. Besides who cares about skins that, although look awesome, are probably going to push more of later on anyway.
I would be shocked if they don't take the Street Fighter IV costume approach. Personally the fight-stick stuff and figurines has me more excited. Remember how awesome those early ones were?
FUCK retailer specific costumes and fatalities. FUCK preorder bonuses in general. Why not just make all that shit unlockable in the game? It may sound like an inflated sense of entitlement, but I'm just not buying the justification for locking out content everyone would obviously enjoy.
I mean, I know it's a great little business deal with retailers, but it's kinda shitty towards the people actually paying for the product.
Frankly, I'm just sick of preordering shit for exclusive content anyway. It's retarded. Why can't I just buy the goddamned game when it comes out? I already wait til the day before to preorder simply out of spite. And choosing between stores for exclusive content is equally dumb.
OG costumes and fatalities sounds awesome...too bad 2/3 of them are locked up with this dumb marketing horse shit (unless, of course, you buy all 3).
Fuck you. With this once announcement you single handily destroyed any and all want for me to buy this game. I refuse to be a part of this pre-order shit and don't buy games that do it. So again, fuck the cunt who keeps doing this to games.
@freshym: Personally, I don't mind new outfits or things of that nature being exclusive. That's just sort of window dressing. But when you're marketing your game as a return to form with new fatalities and tons of gore, locking out some of that content bums me out.
That being said, I also miss the days when new costumes were actually unlockables. Times are a-changin.
I want all 3 of those but I don't want to reserve a copy at 3 different places. So my answer is this: fuck it, I'm not getting any of them. Why? Because fuck you for doing this.
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