‘Kung Fu Hustle’ influenced Madam Bo Kameo Fighter
While noting that guest characters are always a challenge, Nick Nicastro, a design manager for Mortal Kombat 1 at NetherRealm Studios said the team worked very hard to bring the T-1000 to the game as the latest DLC character.
“In the case of T-1000, [it’s] one of the most challenging characters that we’ve worked on, especially as a guest character,” Nicastro told Polygon recently.
“It’s a character that we’ve always wanted to do, even going back to previous games,” Nicastro said. “We really couldn’t in the past; it was just not something that was technically feasible to do in the best possible way until Mortal Kombat 1, where we’ve really made, like, a quantum leap with our engine, tools, and technology.”
The challenges stem from the fact that the T-1000 breaks a lot of the rules of the game, because of its liquid metal body.
“When you hit him with a super move, he has to look like a liquid shape,” said Nicastro. “For every character that hits him with a super, we had to go back and make separate versions of a T-1000 version that looked correct.”
Nicastro said hundreds of people were involved in some capacity in bringing Robert Patrick’s T-1000 to Mortal Kombat 1, when all was said and done.
Throughout the process the team at NetherRealm Studios heavily studied the 1991 live action release of Terminator 2 for reference and to replicate his iconic attacks, but that wasn’t the only movie they studied for this latest content release.
For Madam Bo, the newest Kameo Fighter, the developers tapped the 2004 film, Kung Fu Hustle, to create her dramatic shoe slap attack.
You can find even more details about the T-1000’s creation in Polygon’s interview with Nicastro.
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