Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe!!!
April 11, 2009
Hello fellow bloggers!! So….I was finally able to buy the Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe game!!! YAY!! Before I move on to talk about my thoughts on this game let me just say that I am flabbergasted at how much money needs to be invested into gaming. I spent 100 bucks on two games AND they were both used. Now that I’ve written this down I feel like someone is going to tell me that I’ve been ripped off. Since I don’t have the money to invest in games I’ve decided to just play the games that my friends will let me borrow. If any of you have ideas on how to get my hands on a certain game for less, please let me know.
Now that I’ve vented about the extraordinary prices of video game, on to the good stuff!! I’ve had so much fun playing Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Literally I’ll come home from work and I’ll play it until I realize I have to be up in five hours and I better get to sleep. They’ve really put a lot of effort into how detailed all the characters are. For example, after a fight superman always ends up with a torn up shirt and a bruised eye. Personally I love to think of myself as a pacifist, but this game truly brings out my violent side. The only thing that bugs me is that all the women have the same bimbo looks: curvy, big breasted women in extremely revealing costumes while all the men are covered up or monster looking. Look, I know that video games target men, but really? Is it that necessary? It also bugs me that none of them are strong enough to beat every guy, well, except for wonder woman, she kicks ass!!! By far my favorite character to play, especially when every once in a while I accidentally hit the right buttons and she goes into a full split and grabs her opponent by the ankles and slams him/her against the floor!! Don’t worry my brother already enlightened me to the fact that if you pause a match and hit one of the option it will tell you how the moves for that particular character work. Well guys I’m off to continue enjoying spring break. The next game that I’ll be playing is one where the objective is to kill little zombie girl, my friend said that I should play in the dark all by myself and something tells me that I should do the opposite. Have a good one!
Cesia
I used to be a huge Super hero fan. I never got into comic books much, but I owned all the Batman movies VHS, saw all the Superman movies, owned all the action figures, and had a whole bunch of shirts. I wasn’t allowed to play video games, but I would often sneak over to my friend’s house who had all the latest games. As much as a fan as I was, I still could never get passed the portrayal of women as superheroes. Why did all of them look like supermodels and dress really, to use a word my ma uses, scantily? Male superheroes were obviously made to look like sex-symbols too, but women more so.
Sorry, this last comment was left by Anders La Source, I need to learn to sign
You made a point about how the female characters are never as strong as their male counterpartners and seriously, what’s up with that? I remember when I used to play some video games I liked to pick the female players but I realized they were never as strong as the males so I stopped picking them. Also, there are creepy looking male fighters in some of these games but the women are always sexually appealing like Sonya from Mortal Kombat or Laura Croft.
-Ruzanna
The fact that the male and female characters are idealized and exaggerated in different ways tells us something about the differing expectations and cultural “scripts” we have for men and women, yes?
The men too have grotesquely exaggerated anatomies, but in ways appealing to ideas of power and mass rather than ideas of sexuality. Either way, though, the male and female characters both exhibit signs of culturally-determined physical “perfection,” don’t they? It’s just a different script for female as opposed to male characters.
That said, superheroes are undeniably a mostly male genre. Not exclusively, of course — I know plenty of women fans of superhero comics, for example, and plenty of female as well as male moviegoers who enjoy superhero films — but predominantly.