SuperMillionaire
03-04-2013, 04:10 PM
NetherRealm Studios, the new company who rebooted Mortal Kombat, is set to release its next fighting game, Injustice: Gods Among Us, which centers on DC Comics characters, on April 19th for PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U. They previously released Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe in 2008 when they were still Midway.
Injustice will use the same engine as Mortal Kombat, but will take greater influences from various Japanese fighting games, such as BlazBlue and Street Fighter. One influence from BlazBlue is that every character has a special "gimmick" that can be activated by pressing a certain button. Other influences from Street Fighter are blocking being performed simply by holding back away from your opponent (there is no "block button" in this game like there is in Mortal Kombat), and the super meter being similar to that of Street Fighter IV. In addition, the game has two fighting style control schemes: one is the traditional Mortal Kombat style, and the other is a more Street Fighter-influenced style that uses inputs such as quarter and half circles on the D-pad.
The plot of the game is that Superman has turned evil after the Joker tricks him into accidentally killing his wife, Lois Lane, and their unborn child (the Joker himself also previously killed his best friend, Jimmy Olsen), and when Lois' heart stopped beating, it detonated a bomb that destroyed all of Metropolis. After this, Superman decides to adopt a "pay evil onto evil" policy and establishes a "new world order" in which he rules the world like a dictator, and Batman leads a resistance group.
Injustice will use the same engine as Mortal Kombat, but will take greater influences from various Japanese fighting games, such as BlazBlue and Street Fighter. One influence from BlazBlue is that every character has a special "gimmick" that can be activated by pressing a certain button. Other influences from Street Fighter are blocking being performed simply by holding back away from your opponent (there is no "block button" in this game like there is in Mortal Kombat), and the super meter being similar to that of Street Fighter IV. In addition, the game has two fighting style control schemes: one is the traditional Mortal Kombat style, and the other is a more Street Fighter-influenced style that uses inputs such as quarter and half circles on the D-pad.
The plot of the game is that Superman has turned evil after the Joker tricks him into accidentally killing his wife, Lois Lane, and their unborn child (the Joker himself also previously killed his best friend, Jimmy Olsen), and when Lois' heart stopped beating, it detonated a bomb that destroyed all of Metropolis. After this, Superman decides to adopt a "pay evil onto evil" policy and establishes a "new world order" in which he rules the world like a dictator, and Batman leads a resistance group.