Midway Games announced that the official title for the new version of the world-renowned fighting game franchise will be Mortal Kombat: Deception. Mortal Kombat: Deception is currently in development and scheduled to ship fall 2004 for the PS 2 and the Xbox.
Shocking and evil are two words usually associated with the Mortal Kombat series and everything suggests that that will be the case this time too. Expect lightning-fast hand-to-hand and special weapons combat, secret and returning characters, moves and combinations with new death-dealing battles and fatalities.
Some of the new features include: multiple fatalities per character, multi-tiered interactive backgrounds and extensive new game modes.
The MK2 series which has sold 22 million units so far, had the first installment released in 1992 and has generated more than USD 1.5 billion in revenue through games, movies, music, toys and other merchandise. The last installment in the Mortal Kombat franchise, Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance has sold-through more than 2.6 million units worldwide in combined sales, across all platforms, between its November 22, 2002 launch and February 8, 2004.
