C-c-c-c-combo Breaker!
Could it be? Could it really be? According to 1up.com and EGM’s “Quarterman” it is. Killer Instinct 3 is on the way.
First up, he’s heard that Microsoft-owned developer Rare is currently hard at work on a new Killer Instinct offering for Xbox 360 tentatively titled Killer Instinct 3D: Death, Destruction, and Doom. Word has it that the plasticized 2D visuals and mash-happy gameplay have been wisely bulldozed in favor of fully 3D graphics and a more refined combat system. Our Q-spies in the U.K. report that the game looks “rather early” yet “promising,” and tell us to expect a hasty denial from the cheeky lads at Rare.
You can read the full article at 1up.com here
So we may be finally getting our combofests on again after all these years. Then again, we can only hope that today’s questionable Rare can do justice to the series.
4 Responses to “C-c-c-c-combo Breaker!”
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May 26th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Nooooooooooooooooo
May 27th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Nooooooo?
Killer Instinct. I remember this game well. I sat my mother down to play it, because, goddamnit, I wanted to play the fighting game with SOMEONE, and she kicked my ass with, like, a 60 some odd move combo. Button mashing.
May 27th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I can “Noooooooooo” whatever I please.
But if you must know, I fear it may be a butchering of the classic. That is why I “Nooooooooooooooo” ‘d. People do not know how to modernize things.
May 27th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
True, true. More often than not, updates suck monkey sack.