With Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, developer Digital Eclipse is building on its increasingly impressive history of interactive documentaries to tell the full story of Mortal Kombat's arcade era. That meant not just putting together the millionth re-release of the original MK trilogy - it also meant finally having to figure out how to properly port Mortal Kombat 4 to home consoles.
Mortal Kombat 4 is a fully 3D game, in contrast to the digitized sprites used in the earlier entries, and as Digital Eclipse's Stephen Frost tells me in a Summer Game Fest interview, the transition from 2D to 3D marks "an interesting story for the industry as a whole" where every developer "had their own struggles and challenges."
