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Wow, this is a game I never expected to see happen. Imagine all your favourite Mortal Kombat characters, my personal favourite was always Raiden, going up against all your favourite DC Comics characters, you can’t beat Batman for a dark superhero. Now put that all in a video game and watch the results… pretty awesome huh?

Well, it’s happening, and Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Comics will be coming to a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 near you this Fall after Midway officially announced the game in Las Vegas this week. They also issued a press release, and some early preview game footage that you can see embedded below:

As excited as I am at the prospect of this game, and I am, honest, I’m also pretty disappointed by that footage, as it looks ropey at best. Superhero games are notoriously difficult to get right, and it doesn’t look like Midway are anywhere near achieving a good result at this point in time. Let’s hope the three months of development time they have left improves the feel of the game.

I’m also disappointed by the rumours circulating which indicate that there will be “no fatalities and little-to-no blood” in the game. That’s not me saying it, but rather a former Midway employee who decided to leak the info to Kotaku.

Hang on a minute - a Mortal Kombat game with no fatalities? That’s just not cricket, or Mortal Kombat in this case. It’s surely just Kombat, without the Mortal!

No fatalities and little blood could still mean there are finishing moves, but Mortal Kombat existed solely on the basis of the gore. Take that away to make the game more family friendly and it just becomes another poorly conceived beat-em-up.

What we will get however is battle for supremacy between the two sets of heroes, as their two worlds collide. This will mean Scorpion and Sub Zero fighting Batman and Superman in duels to the death… well, maybe.

Ed Boon, co-creator and executive producer for Mortal Kombat at Midway Amusement Games said:

“It is a truly unique and extremely exciting effort to be teaming up with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Comics for the first Mortal Kombat game on next generation platforms,”

“The DC Universe characters are some of the most popular and enduring characters in the world. By combining them with the Mortal Kombat mythology, all new gameplay modes and features, plus a completely unique storyline crafted by top comic writers, players will now be able to answer the question: what would happen if Batman fought Sub Zero?”

My excitement for this game may have been tempered by the no fatalities debacle, and the terrible looking preview, but it could still end up being a pretty decent game. I can but hope.