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Mk vs DC wasn't the best however I believe its the most important game in the franchise. This is the first game with the story mode we have today, and introduced the DC characters that would later get their own game in injustice.
I would love to see them do a mortal kombat vs injustice universe game. I feel like the injustice universe would just work better paired with mortal kombat, like they wouldn’t have to water down the Superman fatalities for example because injustice Superman doesn’t have a problem laser beaming people through the head lol.
mechanical problem; it'd either have to play like Mortal Kombat or like Injustice (back-to-block vs block button, meter-burn vs enhanced special, clash or no clash), and whichever you picked, fans of the other franchise would be upset
@@possiblymalcolmnot a real problem… fighting game fans are always dissatisfied with something. Sf6 got a fair amount of flak when the roster got leaked(like shortly after it was revealed) and it was just as small as sf5’s roster and missing many highly requested characters, yet it still broke records.
@@kujo4388 Well yeah but the roster of the game doesn't really have an effect on the actual mechanical function; the issue im talking about is that you would either have to have it be a Mortal Kombat game with Injustice characters, an Injustice game with Mortal Kombat characters, or design an entirely new fighting system just to mesh the two together, but then it wouldn't be Mortal Kombat or Injustice and that kinda defeats the purpose; your only other method would be to do what Tekken and Street Fighter tried to do with TekkenXSF and SFXTekken, and have two different games, each with their respective franchises mechanics and by that point, a major American developer like Netherrealm has already scrapped the idea altogether due to resource management and time restraints; I'm not saying the reason it won't happen is because the fans wouldn't be happy, although I'm sure some of them would no matter what as I mentioned before; but rather because it basically can't happen in a way that makes sense to do; it really doesn't need to happen anyway given the state of both franchises and how well they're doing on their own right now; at the time MKvDC released, it was a pretty rough time for both franchises and they both had something to benefit from a crossover, even if that crossover ended up being pretty rough around the edges; in 2023, Mortal Kombat and DC are both in very good places, as good or better than they've ever been; an MKvsDC sequel at this point in time would be impractical and unnecessary
@@kujo4388rosters don’t affect the mechanics. And it got flak because even SF5 got flak. Yes it sold well but that’s because it was fun even with its small roster
Man, I was so worried you’d rag on this the whole time. Imagine my relief. I LOVED MK vs DC. Underrated IMO and set the stage for what NRS would do over the next 15 years.
I LOVED this game! It was my first MK, and I was so interested with the universe and the characters, especially seeing them interact with a cast of DC characters I was already a big fan of. This one sent me hard down memory lane.
The close combat wasn’t just luck my dude, it was literally a rock, paper, scissors mechanic that was a ton of fun! Some of the DBZ budokai games used the same mechanics for fusions I believe. Which was like two or three years prior to this game! So I’m surprised that mechanic didn’t catch on more or get beaten to death like QTE’s
People definitely need to put more respect on this game. The mini games were sooo much fun and the fact you got to play as both franchising battling it out was sooo cool as a kid. You couldn’t have described it any better!
IMO, I think Injustice 3 should be DC vs MK. Its been over 15 years since we had that crossover which I believe paved the way for the entire Injustice franchise. It would be under the Injustice name, so hardcore Mortal Kombat fans wouldn't need to complain about another T-Rated MK. It could have potentially the largest roster in the history of a Netherrealm game and would be a great game for Ed Boon to direct before he retires.
Glad to hear the love for this idea because I love it as well. We got MK guest characters in Injustice and DC guests in MK…so why not go full out? I’ve seen people online against the idea because of this game but that doesn’t make any sense to me at all. It’s like when a beginner cook makes you a meal vs a pro chef making you the same meal. NRS are now pro chefs and Mk vs DC in this day and age of crossovers would sell like hotcakes. WB wants their multiverse to succeed like Disney? This is a good way to do it.
I have this game for the PlayStation 3. The Kombo Challenge section really sucks because no matter how hard I try, I still can't complete all of them. I even went so far as to watching RUclips videos about them & I still can't do it.
Speaking of The Flash I've always been obsessed with Flash's yellow gloves. I'm almost certain this is the only design in which he has yellow gloves to match his yellow boots.
I was legit just thinking about how we haven't gotten a flash game yet, it would basically be if sonic and the arkahm games had a baby, and I feel like theres a lot of potential there. The game could also have it's part of the combat that would help it stick out, maybe even add a little bit of time travel to add variety.
It’s probably the same way that we don’t have a superman game. The dude is so fast that everyone but characters like Superman, wonder women, and Shazam can’t even perceive him. He is too OP
This Game Was Quite Literally My Discovery Of Mortal Kombat And I Couldn’t Of Been Happier And Got Me Invested In MK Lore And Games Ever Since And This Is One Of The First Games That Spark The Idea That Fighting Games Are My Favorite Genre Of Games!😁🤓😎😵💫💥🥊👊🏻🥋
Please cover more fighting games! The genre deserves more love. When MK1 comes out hopefully you will cover deadly alliance, deception, Armageddon. Those games get overlooked a lot nowadays imo
@@Ocarina1786this! I wasn’t even alive to whiteness the peak but even I knew this genre was once dominant and outside of the mid 00s they did and still do sell very well and always gain new fans
@@Ocarina1786 what? I’m 32 and was most definitely there lmao. and this era def gets overlooked in the FGC NOWADAYS. I never was saying they weren’t popular back then lol. I edited it since you were so confused 😂
It still baffles me this is MK8 lmao. I remember at the time no brutal fatalities was a huge controversy. It was still cool though and played online a lot.
Make it open world, the entire planet. Speed force mechanic that allows time travel and changes the world from prehistoric, modern, futuristic or any era in between with the story centered around Black Flash
As a long time/die hard mk fan this was and still is my least favorite entry. Not only did it fail to deliver a good mk game but it also failed to be a good game. It has NO content. Story is bad but it was expected to be as such, no alt costumes, tiny roster, no single player content, very bland and uninspired finishers, just failed to deliver on every front. Seriously how could you like this game if you remove nostalgia? I see a lot of poor souls say this was their introduction to mk so they love it and it just feels misplaced.
I borrowed this from my friend Anthony in the 9th or 10th grade, I don’t remember which and I beat it in a week maybe two. Forgot to give it back to him for like a month.
They had a Flash game except it was on GBA. But they didn't even name it Flash. They named it Justice League: Heroes of The Flash. But make no mistake, it's a Flash game.
I mained the flash too! Got into the online for a bit until you got to a higher tier and it was basically people only playing characters with infinite spam moves like superman or people who just dced when they were losing.
I loved this game I had it on ps3 and all my friends would come over and eat snacks and play this with me in high school it wasn’t a great game but it was stupid fun and those kind of games have a deserving space in gaming
Still don't know how I remember this game, I always thought that this game was AFTER MK9. Don't know what Mandela effect got to me, but wow how it threw me back in time
Man, when I was 14 I wanted an xbox 360 but we couldn't afford one so I got a paper round. For months, I'd wake up everyday at 5am to deliver newspapers before school for £15 a week until I could afford to buy an xbox... I was desperately excited for this title, regardless of getting the Gears 1&2 360 bundle, this was the game that kept me fighting through the South Wales winter mornings to keep delivering my papers and keep saving for that xbox.
MKvDC where the fatalities work on everyone....but superman. Have like sub-zero try to do some brutal shit but it doesn't work and he's just like "oh fuck it this shit ain't worth it"
8:48 the reason is the license of dc characters have restrictions about the level of violence. That's why in injustice for compensate the lack of violence ed boon added more classic exagerated over the top comicbook action
I got two games for Christmas when I got my PS3 MK vs DCU and Naruto ultimate ninja storm. I played those two games to death then for my birthday I got resident evil fiveI played the ever loving shit out of all three of those games for a solid year.
Was a good MK game, have fun memories playing this on ps3. I actually enjoyed this more than the injustice games maybe because it had the MK characters lol
So I’m gathering from your Bamble, that this has nothing to do with DC universe online just the DC universe of comic book heroes hopefully because there is absolutely no overlap between an MMR PG, and a fighting no overlap at all. One is a button, spamming mass and the other one takes skill knowledge of your combos in your rotation.
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When this initially came out, I was hyped as all hell. Even liked it when it came out. But it leaves a bad after taste. Still enjoyable though as a casual sit down for some laughs and decent fighting mechanics
I think Mortal Kombat should crossover with Marvel, they wouldn't have to tone down the violence because most Marvel heroes do kill people and usually get pretty banged up themselves
This game came out 15 years ago. DC are very different with their characters now and would have no issue with them being ultra violent. A MK vs Injustice game would show it.
@jsutton0010 before this game was made, DC characters had always been violent, particularly in animation and graphic novels like The Dark Knight Returns, not to mention the 90s where we got stories like Knightfall and The Death Of Superman, let's not forget Batman killed people in his first few stories, so really this game had no excuse for toneing down the violence
I always hated that stupid hand thing characters would do right before they perform their fatalities. Just seemed so goofy like they are doing “Jazz Hands”
OH GOD NO NO NOOOO WHY WHY WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO YOURSELF The only good thing about this game is they didn’t name it MK8, so I get to pretend the lore of the mainline series is fine and intact and MK has never had a bad numbered release
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Mk vs DC wasn't the best however I believe its the most important game in the franchise. This is the first game with the story mode we have today, and introduced the DC characters that would later get their own game in injustice.
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I would love to see them do a mortal kombat vs injustice universe game. I feel like the injustice universe would just work better paired with mortal kombat, like they wouldn’t have to water down the Superman fatalities for example because injustice Superman doesn’t have a problem laser beaming people through the head lol.
mechanical problem; it'd either have to play like Mortal Kombat or like Injustice (back-to-block vs block button, meter-burn vs enhanced special, clash or no clash), and whichever you picked, fans of the other franchise would be upset
@@possiblymalcolmnot a real problem… fighting game fans are always dissatisfied with something. Sf6 got a fair amount of flak when the roster got leaked(like shortly after it was revealed) and it was just as small as sf5’s roster and missing many highly requested characters, yet it still broke records.
@@kujo4388 Well yeah but the roster of the game doesn't really have an effect on the actual mechanical function; the issue im talking about is that you would either have to have it be a Mortal Kombat game with Injustice characters, an Injustice game with Mortal Kombat characters, or design an entirely new fighting system just to mesh the two together, but then it wouldn't be Mortal Kombat or Injustice and that kinda defeats the purpose; your only other method would be to do what Tekken and Street Fighter tried to do with TekkenXSF and SFXTekken, and have two different games, each with their respective franchises mechanics and by that point, a major American developer like Netherrealm has already scrapped the idea altogether due to resource management and time restraints; I'm not saying the reason it won't happen is because the fans wouldn't be happy, although I'm sure some of them would no matter what as I mentioned before; but rather because it basically can't happen in a way that makes sense to do; it really doesn't need to happen anyway given the state of both franchises and how well they're doing on their own right now; at the time MKvDC released, it was a pretty rough time for both franchises and they both had something to benefit from a crossover, even if that crossover ended up being pretty rough around the edges; in 2023, Mortal Kombat and DC are both in very good places, as good or better than they've ever been; an MKvsDC sequel at this point in time would be impractical and unnecessary
Nah
@@kujo4388rosters don’t affect the mechanics. And it got flak because even SF5 got flak. Yes it sold well but that’s because it was fun even with its small roster
Man, I was so worried you’d rag on this the whole time. Imagine my relief. I LOVED MK vs DC. Underrated IMO and set the stage for what NRS would do over the next 15 years.
I LOVED this game! It was my first MK, and I was so interested with the universe and the characters, especially seeing them interact with a cast of DC characters I was already a big fan of. This one sent me hard down memory lane.
The close combat wasn’t just luck my dude, it was literally a rock, paper, scissors mechanic that was a ton of fun! Some of the DBZ budokai games used the same mechanics for fusions I believe. Which was like two or three years prior to this game! So I’m surprised that mechanic didn’t catch on more or get beaten to death like QTE’s
People definitely need to put more respect on this game. The mini games were sooo much fun and the fact you got to play as both franchising battling it out was sooo cool as a kid. You couldn’t have described it any better!
IMO, I think Injustice 3 should be DC vs MK. Its been over 15 years since we had that crossover which I believe paved the way for the entire Injustice franchise. It would be under the Injustice name, so hardcore Mortal Kombat fans wouldn't need to complain about another T-Rated MK. It could have potentially the largest roster in the history of a Netherrealm game and would be a great game for Ed Boon to direct before he retires.
Glad to hear the love for this idea because I love it as well. We got MK guest characters in Injustice and DC guests in MK…so why not go full out?
I’ve seen people online against the idea because of this game but that doesn’t make any sense to me at all. It’s like when a beginner cook makes you a meal vs a pro chef making you the same meal. NRS are now pro chefs and Mk vs DC in this day and age of crossovers would sell like hotcakes. WB wants their multiverse to succeed like Disney? This is a good way to do it.
Why was Batman on the receiving end of all of the Fatalities & Heroic Brutalities that we saw in this review, exactly?...
I have this game for the PlayStation 3.
The Kombo Challenge section really sucks because no matter how hard I try, I still can't complete all of them.
I even went so far as to watching RUclips videos about them & I still can't do it.
There is a part of me that did then and still does love this game despite all of the negatives
This was great, dude! Would love to see more fighting games on the channel.
Speaking of The Flash I've always been obsessed with Flash's yellow gloves. I'm almost certain this is the only design in which he has yellow gloves to match his yellow boots.
I was legit just thinking about how we haven't gotten a flash game yet, it would basically be if sonic and the arkahm games had a baby, and I feel like theres a lot of potential there. The game could also have it's part of the combat that would help it stick out, maybe even add a little bit of time travel to add variety.
The overworld can be different in different time periods but still use the same map 💡
@@BankaiFever could make some very interesting level design for sure!
It’s probably the same way that we don’t have a superman game. The dude is so fast that everyone but characters like Superman, wonder women, and Shazam can’t even perceive him. He is too OP
This Game Was Quite Literally My Discovery Of Mortal Kombat And I Couldn’t Of Been Happier And Got Me Invested In MK Lore And Games Ever Since And This Is One Of The First Games That Spark The Idea That Fighting Games Are My Favorite Genre Of Games!😁🤓😎😵💫💥🥊👊🏻🥋
I need a Marvel Nemesis retro rebound !
Rise of the imperfects was so underrated!!
Definitely picking this game up
Please cover more fighting games! The genre deserves more love. When MK1 comes out hopefully you will cover deadly alliance, deception, Armageddon. Those games get overlooked a lot nowadays imo
No they don’t you just weren’t there at their peak
@@Ocarina1786this! I wasn’t even alive to whiteness the peak but even I knew this genre was once dominant and outside of the mid 00s they did and still do sell very well and always gain new fans
@@Ocarina1786 what? I’m 32 and was most definitely there lmao. and this era def gets overlooked in the FGC NOWADAYS. I never was saying they weren’t popular back then lol. I edited it since you were so confused 😂
@@kujo4388 who said i was saying they got overlooked back then? I’m talking about today
It still baffles me this is MK8 lmao. I remember at the time no brutal fatalities was a huge controversy. It was still cool though and played online a lot.
Definitely one of the weirdest mainline game in a fighting game franchise
I had a lot of fun with this game as a kid.
People really don't know how strong the Justice League is.
Imagine seeing Ghost Rider in a Mortal Kombat game…
Not too hard you just have to imagine faceless scorpion with a different outfit
Just as long as its not Nic Cage's GR. 😂
I feel like Prototype and Spider-Man are good places to start for a Flash game
Make it open world, the entire planet. Speed force mechanic that allows time travel and changes the world from prehistoric, modern, futuristic or any era in between with the story centered around Black Flash
The problem is what threats is he going to face? He is OP as heck.
Honestly I love how cinematic the fighting can be. Probably one of my favorite fighting games. Sure the story kinda sucks but… the gameplay is awesome
DC vs Marvel would make so much money
my cousin used to play this almost everyday when we were kids he was too good dude, and i think he still plays the crap out of it
Yesss thank you matty for covering this game definitely one of those rare games of the 2010 eras
I remember getting this on Christmas for my 360
Lmaooo nah the beginning killed me bro 😭😭
As a long time/die hard mk fan this was and still is my least favorite entry. Not only did it fail to deliver a good mk game but it also failed to be a good game. It has NO content. Story is bad but it was expected to be as such, no alt costumes, tiny roster, no single player content, very bland and uninspired finishers, just failed to deliver on every front. Seriously how could you like this game if you remove nostalgia? I see a lot of poor souls say this was their introduction to mk so they love it and it just feels misplaced.
Loved this game when I was younger
I use to have this on 360 i remember i was in highschool when this game came out.
I remember flash had an infinite combo in this game
That's less than what they charge for Costumes in October. Last time I went to Spirit, I damn-near had a heart attack.
This game was my first introduction to mortal Kombat when I was little
I borrowed this from my friend Anthony in the 9th or 10th grade, I don’t remember which and I beat it in a week maybe two. Forgot to give it back to him for like a month.
They had a Flash game except it was on GBA. But they didn't even name it Flash. They named it Justice League: Heroes of The Flash. But make no mistake, it's a Flash game.
MY FIRST MK. Loved it
I mained the flash too! Got into the online for a bit until you got to a higher tier and it was basically people only playing characters with infinite spam moves like superman or people who just dced when they were losing.
Wow, I just beat injustice 1 today, I know they're two different games but it's like matty knows
I loved this game I had it on ps3 and all my friends would come over and eat snacks and play this with me in high school it wasn’t a great game but it was stupid fun and those kind of games have a deserving space in gaming
Still don't know how I remember this game, I always thought that this game was AFTER MK9. Don't know what Mandela effect got to me, but wow how it threw me back in time
I remember laying down $60 for this on release day, back when I was 15yo and broke af. Felt so ripped off man
Why?
When this came out I loved it
The craziest thing this is Mk8 in which most people are not aware and Armageddon is MK7
Man, when I was 14 I wanted an xbox 360 but we couldn't afford one so I got a paper round. For months, I'd wake up everyday at 5am to deliver newspapers before school for £15 a week until I could afford to buy an xbox... I was desperately excited for this title, regardless of getting the Gears 1&2 360 bundle, this was the game that kept me fighting through the South Wales winter mornings to keep delivering my papers and keep saving for that xbox.
I remember this game, I think it was my first MK game
Did Matty really just say “Oh Madone”🤣
I swear that I live in the matrix, I was just thinking when would matty do a mortal kombat video and here we are.
MKvDC where the fatalities work on everyone....but superman. Have like sub-zero try to do some brutal shit but it doesn't work and he's just like "oh fuck it this shit ain't worth it"
Like how their endings are just them
Fangasming over each other.
Kano wanting to be like joker.
Subzero becoming batman etc.
Lol nice suit
8:48 the reason is the license of dc characters have restrictions about the level of violence.
That's why in injustice for compensate the lack of violence ed boon added more classic exagerated over the top comicbook action
Finally, a different thumbnail. Lmao
that costume is gold XD
Me and my cousins loved this game! You should talk about the flash gameboy game!
I was the kid who sniffed the snes bag. I appreciate the full box review.
God I remember playing this game it was the first mortal kombat game I ever played and is my childhood seen batman fighting Scorpio is amazing
That costume lmao 🤣 dude you’re great
I remember begging for this game all the time. But I was too young 😢
Matty looking Redfall in the intro
Lol that was a good jump scare
I graduated high school the year after this came out. Man...
This game was actually really cool looking it kinda reminds me of Tekken now that I’m older
It would be cool to see a mortal kombat vs dc death metal since both universe are dark and gory
I had a Blast with it!
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe should have tag team (2v2).
I got two games for Christmas when I got my PS3 MK vs DCU and Naruto ultimate ninja storm. I played those two games to death then for my birthday I got resident evil fiveI played the ever loving shit out of all three of those games for a solid year.
This was a fun one
I liked this game alot as a kid
Mine was scratched up.
I'll work sometimes it wouldn't.
We need a revisit of the Justice League game on the OG XBOX
Wheelman is such an underrated game
This game, is underrated
thats crazy, i had that vin diesels game 😅
Was a good MK game, have fun memories playing this on ps3. I actually enjoyed this more than the injustice games maybe because it had the MK characters lol
sick suit 😂, i do have some fond memories with dc v mk, a remake of this would actually be awesome
I agree. $$$ MORTAL KOMBAT VS DC UNIVERSE.
BRING IR BACK
The game that gave birth to Injustice.
Anyone else's Xbox one not loading the game disc? Bought a brand new copy after seeing this video and it won't be accepted by my Xbox one
This game is awesome and nobody can convince me otherwise
About that blue dragon
Captain Marvel, the flash and raiden had the most spamming moves ever
My buddy would just body my entire ass with green lanterns forward O low punch or forward triangle mid kick
Wish I could play this game, but I don't own any console and it was not on PC, so I have to believe in all what everybody is saying about this game.
The mask has a Neanderthal brow 😂
The flash game is entirely possible especially since we have a game like sonic frontiers.
Still have my ps3 copy
So I’m gathering from your Bamble, that this has nothing to do with DC universe online just the DC universe of comic book heroes hopefully because there is absolutely no overlap between an MMR PG, and a fighting no overlap at all. One is a button, spamming mass and the other one takes skill knowledge of your combos in your rotation.
Would love another take of Mortal Kombat vs DC
I have no problem with matty taking a sponsor because that doesnt bother me but the concept of bespoke post is so funny and stupid to me. Its just loot crate but for middle aged dads😂
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When this initially came out, I was hyped as all hell. Even liked it when it came out. But it leaves a bad after taste. Still enjoyable though as a casual sit down for some laughs and decent fighting mechanics
I think Mortal Kombat should crossover with Marvel, they wouldn't have to tone down the violence because most Marvel heroes do kill people and usually get pretty banged up themselves
This game came out 15 years ago. DC are very different with their characters now and would have no issue with them being ultra violent. A MK vs Injustice game would show it.
@jsutton0010 before this game was made, DC characters had always been violent, particularly in animation and graphic novels like The Dark Knight Returns, not to mention the 90s where we got stories like Knightfall and The Death Of Superman, let's not forget Batman killed people in his first few stories, so really this game had no excuse for toneing down the violence
Does this have a PlayStation 4 or 5 disc?
Or any other way of playing it at ps4 or 5?
The flash movie? I thought it was a game.
I always hated that stupid hand thing characters would do right before they perform their fatalities. Just seemed so goofy like they are doing “Jazz Hands”
I'd play a Flash game in a flash!
Is there a version of this game on the Wii or PS2? Curious.
OH GOD NO NO NOOOO WHY WHY WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO YOURSELF
The only good thing about this game is they didn’t name it MK8, so I get to pretend the lore of the mainline series is fine and intact and MK has never had a bad numbered release
"We have Marvel vs Capcom at home"
Yea MK9 Had Great Fatalities
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