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Mortal Kombat Wii Online Decapitated
Nintendos online still not ready for thirdparty developers.
 
Expansion and Adventure packs are coming, Carolyn Koh tells us more
About a week before E3, EverQuest II announced a new expansion, Echoes of Faydwer and an Adventure Pack, Fallen Dynasty to be launched in November and June of this year respectively.

The Fallen Dynasty - 3rd Adventure Pack
“The Fallen Dynasty introduces EQII players to a mysterious city shrouded in secrets and once ruled by a powerful entity. The Whistling Fist, an ancient order of monks, guard its veiled past, but seek adventurers brave enough to explore the mysteries of this forgotten civilization.”

 advertisement The Adventure Pack was developed in conjunction with SOE’s Taiwan studio and the artwork is quite beautiful. But an Oriental race suddenly pops up in Norrath? When I thought back to the original EverQuest, I recalled the original human male models had a couple distinctly Asian faces.
Brother Qwinn in South Karana is such a monk that belongs to the Whistling Fist.

Mortal Kombat has been around for years and years. The franchise has put out an incredible number of releases — between console and arcade, the number is somewhere over 70. It's an incredibly successful franchise and it has had both stronger and weaker moments.

Happily, the newest release in the franchise, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, in its Nintendo Wii incarnation, is a very good game. The game was released to the Playstation 2 and Xbox last fall, but with some tweaks here and there, it has just come out for the Wii, with, of course, motion-sensing control via the Wii Remote.

The main portion of the game, as with almost all Mortal Kombat games, is the head-to-head with the computer tournament (Kombat). Also included here is a relatively brief linear game where the player controls one fighter throughout (Konquest). There is a kreate-a-fighter mode and a demonstration video on how to use the Wii Remote to properly immolate your opponent. Plus, there is a racing mini-game (Motor Kombat) which is similar in style to a kart game like Mario Kart or Crash Team Racing, an endurance mode, and you can, of course, play head-to-head with friends either in Motor Kombat or a regular old battle.