Mortal Kombat III  Latest News  Posted March 10, 1995


The following article is an excerpt from the April 1995 EGM2 magazine on 
Mortal Kombat III


The last chapter of the greatest arcade fighting game of all time is close to being
finished.  Programmers at Sculptured Software in Salt Lake City, Utah, have already 
started porting over the arcade version of Mortal Kombat III to the Super NES,
Sega Genesis, Game Gear and Game Boy platforms.  Probe is doing the conversion for
the Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn

Behind closed doors we recently viewed a five minute tape that had a few bits and 
pieces of Mortal Kombat III.  Sources are suggesting that the game will be released
for the Playstation six months after its release in the arcades.  Afterward, it will
be released for the Super NES, Sega Genesis and then the Ultra 64 and Sega Saturn.

There will be fourteen characters: Some will be familiar; others you have not seen. 
The new characters have facinating moves and maneuvers.  The fights take place both
above and below ground in a host of new fighting arenas.

In one sequence, a new character has a secret move where an arm comes out from under
his armor, grabing the foe and hurling him/her into the air.  Mortal fans will not be
disappointed.

It looks great.  Rich Divizio is once again playing the parts of Kano and Baraka;
Tony Marquez is playing Kung Lao; Kerri Hoskins is playing Sonia and John Parrish is
Jax, as for the nine other characters, Williams hired models instead of martial 
artists to do the game.  Williams is still trying to convince Robin Shou (the actor
playing Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat the movie) to play Liu Kang in the game.

The other characters not in the game for the third version are working on a new
fighting game with Atari for the Jaguar.  The project is headed up by Ho Sung Pak, who
played Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat II; Dr. Philip Ahn, who played Shang Tsung and the
women who played the part of Kitana.  They are combining thier efforts to make a 
Jaguar game that is do out later this year.

Stay tuned for more on what should prove to be the best fighting game of 1996.  We will
have more coverage on Mortal Kombat III as the release date looms on the horizon.



