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MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« on: June 28, 2010, 11:52:17 AM »
Bioware's classic action title is reborn as a downloadable title.
                        http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/23569
                        

Interplay
has announced that Bioware's classic third-person shooting game, MDK2, is being re-released as a WiiWare title. The port will
be handled by Beamdog, a development studio founded by Bioware employee Trent Osner.


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MDK2 was first released on the
Sega Dreamcast on March 31, 2000. The title starred Kurt Hectic, Max the mechanical six-legged dog, and Doctor Fluke Hawkins.
All three characters were playable and featuring different gameplay mechanics.
 

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The WiiWare version is set to be released this winter.



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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2010, 12:04:48 PM »
This game is gonna fit in a 40MB file size?


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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2010, 01:29:21 PM »
This game is gonna fit in a 40MB file size?

Yeah, that's bothering me as well.  We can't fit Tales of Monkey Island episodes within 40 MB without the games having serious issues, yet we can fit an entire Dreamcast game on the service?  I have to wonder if Nintendo's finally lifting the file size restriction.
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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2010, 01:29:33 PM »
This game is gonna fit in a 40MB file size?

Yes.

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Code & gameplay is fitting in the 40MB. We won’t use any pre-rendered videos in between levels, but also most the original textures of MDK2 weren’t compressed, so it will fit. - Interplay's Eric Caen
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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2010, 02:01:40 PM »
This game is gonna fit in a 40MB file size?

Yes.

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Code & gameplay is fitting in the 40MB. We won’t use any pre-rendered videos in between levels, but also most the original textures of MDK2 weren’t compressed, so it will fit. - Interplay's Eric Caen
That just goes to show how bloated games were back in the day and that CD's and DVD's weren't exactly necessary for most games.
I can only imagine how much space was left empty on the average PS1, PS2, DC & Xbox disc.

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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2010, 03:19:45 PM »
Remember that Animal Crossing fit into GameCube's RAM and could be played for hours with the lid open and disc removed. GameCube only had about 40MB of RAM (plus some for audio)... so maybe Animal Crossing could be put on WiiWare? Maybe this is also the explanation for the WiiWare size limit, which I've heard is related to hardware restrictions and is not as arbitrary or easy to fix as you might think.
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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2010, 04:25:06 PM »
Sounds interesting. Did anybody play it on Dreamcast?
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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2010, 01:12:24 PM »
I played it on my PC.  It was a fairly strong game with interesting visuals and a very good sense of humor.

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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2010, 01:40:02 PM »
I played the demo of the first MDK about a hundred times on my PC.  I didn't have any money back then.
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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2010, 03:14:37 PM »
Remember that Animal Crossing fit into GameCube's RAM and could be played for hours with the lid open and disc removed. GameCube only had about 40MB of RAM (plus some for audio)... so maybe Animal Crossing could be put on WiiWare? Maybe this is also the explanation for the WiiWare size limit, which I've heard is related to hardware restrictions and is not as arbitrary or easy to fix as you might think.
Considering it's a glorified 64DD game, I wouldn't doubt it.
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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2010, 04:20:30 PM »
i saw Mk2 in the title and got excited thinking it was a SNES remake of Mortal Kombat 2. My favorite MK game...now i'm sad it's a totally different game.

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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2010, 11:51:25 PM »
For what is MDK an acronym?

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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2010, 11:57:00 PM »
Murder Death Kill

if my serves me correctly

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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2010, 12:11:10 AM »
Murder Death Kill

if my serves me correctly

Officially it doesn't stand for anything, and they never actually mention it in the games either. It was actually a running joke about what it could stand for; "Murder. Death. Kill" was one of them, along with stuff like "My Dear Knight".
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« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2010, 12:49:28 AM »
But isn't this the game where the guy has a sniper rifle for a head?

Just asking to make sure I'm remembering the right game.

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« Reply #15 on: June 30, 2010, 01:44:55 AM »
Murder Death Kill

if my serves me correctly

Officially it doesn't stand for anything, and they never actually mention it in the games either. It was actually a running joke about what it could stand for; "Murder. Death. Kill" was one of them, along with stuff like "My Dear Knight".

I think a common one was Max, Doctor, Kurt.

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Re: MDK2 Coming to WiiWare
« Reply #16 on: June 30, 2010, 01:53:26 PM »
Murder Death Kill

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Murder Death Kill is actually from the movie Demolition Man.
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