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Mortal Kombat Armageddon is the culmination of the long-running fighter franchise, as publisher Midway has hand-picked the best elements from each game and combined them into one enormous package. If you've played any of the Kombat games before, you can rest assured that your favorite characters are probably represented in the latest rendition. After all, the project features a whopping 64 fighters, including the one that you create from the ground up. But more, Armageddon has a wealth of fight modes, a racing option compatible with up to four players, and even a quasi-adventure offering to keep you coming back again and again.

Exclusive to the Wii version of Mortal Kombat Armageddon is the Endurance Mode, where players will put their killing prowess to the test, eliminating as many enemies as they can.

If you’re concerned about the graphics or any of the gameplay being dumbed down during the porting process, you can cast your fears aside because Mortal Kombat Armageddon is shaping up to be just as great as the PS2 and Xbox versions that were released last year.

I never played Primal Rage, was it any good?

Well, Mortal Kombat has been around 15 years now and a big part of fighting in Mortal Kombat has always been about doing special moves - the projectiles, teleporting and all the supernatural stuff. Traditionally - for 15 years - doing those moves has involved a somewhat complex sequence of directional pad and button combinations. While that was very cool, there was a certain number of people who weren't able to grasp that whole thing. So what we did with the Wii version was we took advantage of the system's gestures and motions and linked them to those special moves and basically made the game a lot more accessible. That's what we've really found in doing that - there was a lot of people who could never do special moves or fatalities or teleport and throw spears, and they are all of a sudden able to do these moves. A much wider range of people are now able to enjoy what Mortal Kombat has to offer.

The game has 64 fighters. It's basically every character from the Mortal Kombat universe put together, so every dream scenario that anybody has thought of. What would happen if Kintaro fought against Tanya or Sektor fought against Rain? There's just every match-up that can be in this version.

Well, Mortal Kombat Armageddon introduced the create-a-fatality feature, which basically gives the player the ability to kind of create his own fatality. So, you know, he can tear a guy's head off, rip his arm off, hit him with the arm and what not. That's the create-a-fatality system and it's the new entry into the series.

Armageddon for Wii has a new mode called the endurance mode, which lets the player fight against as many opponents as he can get through with one life bar. You beat a guy, he explodes, another guy jumps on the screen and you've got to fight with however much power you have left. Every once in awhile, after every five or six opponents, you'll get a little bit of life back so you'll always have a little chance if you reach that next plateau. Other than that, we have a whole new Wii training mode that gets people accustomed to the motion gestures for their characters - they can polish up without being in an intense fighting scenario. And as everybody knows, in Armageddon we have a single-player Konquest mode, which is like an adventure mode in itself. And we also have a diversion called Motor Kombat, which is like Mario Kart meets Mortal Kombat.