Imagine if you will sliding a disc into your current console of choice and being taken back in time to the early 1990s. You're half expecting the digitized sprites of real actors to look dated and ugly, but instead you see eye-popping digitized sprites in high-definition there for you in all their brutal glory.
If what TRMK.org is telling us is to be believed, then it's almost inevitable.
Following the pattern of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix released a couple of years ago or so, it seems the folks at Warner Bros. are pushing their rather recent acquirement of the Mortal Kombat franchise in the direction that it needs. First, we're getting a real Mortal Kombat game that isn't being rushed out the gate by the folks at Midway, and second, a little pet project that puts three classic (and only really decent MK games out there) into the hands of fighting game fans everywhere.
Not to be outdone by rival company Capcom, Warner Bros. isn't settling with upscaling of pre-existing sprites or drawing over the same sprites with flashy new HD looks for their characters. Oh, no. TRMK.org is telling us that Warner Bros. is hiring new actors and actresses to stand before a camera in the MK costumes and re-enact the moves frame by frame to get the digitized actor effect that the original games had. They're redoing the sprites from the ground up using much more modern high-definition technology. And I imagine that accompanying these new actors and actresses would be re-drawn animations for the blood and gore to make the game one bloody HD experience.
While there hasn't been an outright confirmation from Warner Bros., NetherRealm Studios, or the developers behind this interesting effort, we'll have to take TRMK.org's confirmation with a regrettable grain of salt.
Needless to say, I for one am hoping this game is real.
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