Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe is disappointing us more and more. A couple of days ago we showed a video featuring three finishing moves that could have been the worst fatalities in the Mortal Kombat series. But in the same article, we wanted to reiterate that the Joker ‘Fatality’ could be the best in the History of Mortal Kombat — so we still had confidence in seeing better finishing moves. Well, thanks to DC Comics demanding a Teen rated fighter, the move has been censored.

The first time it was shown, the Fatality consisted of the Joker pulling out a gun to his opponent’s head and pulling the trigger. Just like in a cartoon, instead of a bullet coming out — a flag with “BANG” printed on it was shown. The Joker’s opponent would then look around and shrug his or hers shoulders — and gave the expression like, wtf is wrong with him? Right after that, the Joker takes another gun out of his jacket, points it to the other fighter’s head and shoots — only this time its real and he/she is dead. the Joker would then start to laugh uncontrollably. It was again, probably the best in the history of Mortal Kombat.

In order to get the dreadful Teen rating, the ESRB must have deemed the move to be too violent. Because Midway has edited the ending according Kotaku. Instead of showing the fighter getting shot, he/she is now noticeably not on the screen. To prevent the reenactment of a gruesome death.

We want everyone to know the game is still good — even with a ‘Teen‘ rating. But we also believe Mortal Kombat was an important part of the video game industry and the series is easily one of the originators of developing violent games on the home consoles. With the next MK looming, we just think it’s a step backwards. Lets face it — the reason why Mortal Kombat became what it is today, is because of the violence. It grew controversy, and therefore sold incredibly well. The game’s fighting engine back in the day wasn’t very good — although what made it fun, was how simple the controls were.

Only recently, the fighter has included a deeper fighting system. But if you were to compare it to Soul Calibur and/or Tekken, it’s still far away from having a deep system.

If you were to ask us, we would have preferred of having Mortal Kombat characters fighting their own and leaving out the stars of DC Universe. Mortal Kombat vs Mortal Kombat could have been just as fun but with an added feature — blood and gruesome deaths. However we understand over time that can get boring, but at least in the beginning it would have been more entertaining then it as now. And no question in our book — we would have enjoyed it considerably more than fighting as ‘Wonder Woman.’

We we understand business is business and having the DC characters included, will ultimately make the game sell even better. But that doesn’t mean we’re happy.