Mortal Kombat Special Forces - What Happened? 

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It's interesting to go back and watch these early eps after getting into Wha Happun? during 2021 - Matt's much quieter, there's no direct quotes from devs/PR people, there's hardly any music playing during script portions, no furs- I mean funny Matt avatar moving around the screen and gesticulating...the series has definitely come a long way in the 3 years both in terms of quality (not that this wasn't entertaining, mind you) and in building its own identity and personality. Props for that, Mr. Muscles.

Rewatched this episode because of the Mythologies Sub Zero video, it's so cool to see how much your writing and editing has improved over the years. The jump in quality between this and one the more recent What Happend episodes is gigantic, keep up the great work Matt!

The scene of Subzero walking down the stairs with his head down singing some Type O Negative always makes me laugh. 🤣

7:47 Just a heads up, the guy you have pictured as *Dave Michicich* is actually *Tommy Tallarico* , video-game composer and former host on Electric Playground. The picture is from the thumbnail of the video where Tommy interviews Dave. The more you know lol

Some call me Johnny sent me here 👀

That intro is like James Bond meets Cowboy Bebop. Amazing.

"So what kinda effect do you want for your opening to the game?" "Yes"

Can we take a minute to acknowledge how cheesy awesome the MK4 Commercial was? Good times. Special Forces was definitely crap. I'm glad they did try again in the action adventure genre (or beat'em up genre) with Shaolin Monks.

Still waiting on that Drake of the 99 Dragons LP, Matt!

I don't believe a game intro so amazing could be attached to a game so bad.

That Wrestlemania 21 footage looks familiar...It's kinda making me a bit rustled!

I wonder how butt hurt john tobias is now because MK franchise is super huge and ed boon racking in millions of dollars

Aw memories at that Kurt Angle , Rey Mysterio glitch

And yet the character of Tremor became a very requested character to be added in the main titles for some reason

Matt: The intro is great. Me: I don't believe you. (watches intro) Me: I'll never doubt you again.

You have the best channel Matt

stranglehold was actually pretty dope

I'm confused, isn't that Tommy Tallarico in that one image labeled Dave Michicich?

I literally found your channel a week or two ago and I love everything about it! Keep it up man and I can’t wait to watch everything on my days off

That was not a picture of Dave Michicich. It was from an interview of Dave Michicich and the other main Mortal Kombat team by Tommy Tallarico, on Electric Playground TV on G4 in 1998. The man pictured was Tommy Tallarico who was a host and now leads Video Games Live.

That intro is Venture Bros. Af

Bro that intro SLAPS holy shit

Kombat time

I feel like it's worth mentioning that now John Tobias works at Zynga. You know, those people that make those Facebook games. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

4:55 i LOVE that he has the EXACT same joke in here that's in the most recent mortal kombat sub zero mythology episode that made me laugh my ass off

This game's intro is what happens when The Martin Lawrence show and a chummy 007 flick have a kid - it was a mistake in the best & worst of ways. I love it lol.

While I know it's likely not a game series that Matt's particularly invested in, I'd love to see him tackle the death of the X-COM franchise prior to Enemy Unknown resurrecting it; Terror from the Deep was a hurried attempt to cash in on the success of the original that was essentially a reskin with some terrible design ideas but decent atmosphere, Apocalypse was pretty good but rough and with a kind of odd art direction, Interceptor and Enforcer were laughable dogshit, and then it all died before Alliance and Genesis came out. And then there's the debacle of the Bureau.

Yep, I had this game *sigh* AND MK Mythologies. To be fair I didn't ask for it as a kid, my parents just assumed I'd want Special Forces. Mythologies though, I think I actually asked for as a kid.

I always wondered what happened to John Tobias. Thanks Matty!

This is the greatest name for a series, great video btw.

A "Wha Happun?" for Final Fight Streetwise would be really cool. Or maybe "Bad Day L.A." Something from the same era as BMX XXX. There was lots of trash on the PS2 lol

Stranglehold was a good fun game though, even though it didn't do to well. At least to me it was.

Love the editing style. Real excited for more :D

just stumbled on your channel by i can't remember how, but i like your content. keep it up dude.

I actually loved Mythologies on Playstation. But man was it frustratingly rockhard to finish.

I remember renting this one time. I was mad that week.

4:56 subzero just got told by Quan chi that he isnt going to be in special forces

What on god’s green but mostly blue earth was that MK Special Forces intro? I had to stop the video and look up the intro to make sure you weren’t goofing around. In a bitter sweet kinda way, you were not kidding.

Love this series. Great work

You just don't get hyper-realistic neck mechanics like this anymore

the graphics for that wrestling game looks amazing

11:22 fuck that made me jump Great video, didn't know the dev team took that big of a hit, I always thought it was just Tobias that left and everyone kept doing their thing and then later reunited. If things turned out differently, Special Forces could've been a fun dumb coop game if they kept Sonya and a lot of the things they took out, like a proto Shaolin Monks

The intro is amazing.

I actually used to love stranglehold

Your simpsons references are always on point and crack me up! I get the vibe that you watched a lot of the simpsons and love it as much as i do.

Matt: Here's the intro Me: somebody saw Cowboy Bebop back in the 90s

Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks is still my best platform MK game to date! I wish they would remake it

Matt:The studio closed a year later. Me:The Studio stayed open for a year after releasing that?!

That dreamcast skit was fucking beautiful

You should find out What Happened with Mortal Kombat 4. Those cutscenes!

Only question I have is who made that intro. Seriously the intro for this game is great.

Street Fighter x Tekken and the uncertain future of Tekken x Street Fighter would be a great video for Wha Happun, especially if you get Woolie in on it for a fighterpedia vibe.

Honestly I wish netherrealm would make more MK games like this

i think it was mostly just to get the team some experience with the 3D development, the idea is actually pretty solid a game focused on the lore of the characters but they didn't exactly get the fair chance to complete it which is a shame. dam that intro is fire tho a glimpse into what could of been.

The Black Dragon Live On!!!

Stranglehold was a childhood favorite of mine. Now I'm so curious about Wha Happuned to it...

What's odd is that they showed something like this can work, ie Shaolin monks

I swear Matt and this show is like the Light Side to DSP and KO Gaming's Dark Side

Something that shock3d me is that Sonya was the one who got the axe. I feel like of Jax got canned, it wouldn't be so confusing. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Wha Happun?!

Quan Chi sounds like a Dreadlord in Warcraft 3.

Those cutscenses from mythologies are lit af i love shit like that

I wish Midway was still around.

I can't wait to see you tackle _that_ game next.

That intro does NOT say "Mature-rated" 😂 it is pretty dope though

Sub Zero: Freezer Scorpion: A Scorpion Raiden: Lightning Guy Kano: Generic knife dude in CS.GO Baraka: Crazy hack and Slash sword guy Add more Names in the comments

I always wanted to know what ever happened to the game "Rouge Trooper" by Rebellion. The ending of the game has a huge cliff hanger and as a kid I always thought it was a lead up to a sequal...

At least they got it right with Shaolin Monks. They need to stop messing around and make Fire and Ice with Scorpion and Sub-Zero like we should have gotten.

So sad, makes almost want to cry, as a Mortal Kombat fan

You should do an episode dedicated to F1 2014 or 2015

I cannot get over that opening.

Shutout to the Hebrew version of _Nestle Trix Fruits_ (Nestle Trix פירות) cereal at 3:50. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that its the 1st result on google images :)

I honestly liked Special Forces. But then again, I was a little kid when I played it. But MAN.... this game DID NOT age well... AT ALL... And that's even looking past the flaws it had.

I have a suggestion if you don't have it jotted down yet: death by degrees

Mk:Sub Zero too good for wuh happen? 😏 Dunno about that Matt.

MK: Special Forces Intro = MK meets 1970's cop drama.

Midway gave us Psi ops the mind game conspiracy which is one of the most underrated games of all time

Simple 2000 Series: The Kombat

thats not dave michicich thats tommy telirico from g4tv judgement day

Did that jax intro have a dog barking sample 😂 it was the style of the time

I hate when people/companies abandon an old system straight away when a new one comes out. In my country, the PS1 was still going strong up to around 2003, only rich people had a ps2 before that. The Master System was still going hard in 1994 as well. And at these later stages of their life cycle the developers have usually mastered the programming and the best games are coming out. Check the Sega mAster System games of 1992 for example, or Genesis games of 1997. I really wish some time and effort had been put into this game, most people in 2000 still played the ps1 and they could have kept gamers happy that awesome games were still coming out on the system, hell it could have even been a good final hurah for the PS1 MK games

Till this day I have the combo inputs embedded into my brain.

Good God damn that's one good intro

man i love this show and there's soooo many. Mmmmm. One of those moments when you find a well of goodness to binge.

They should've made the game for the Dreamcast and ported it to the PS2 later. It would've preserved Tobias's graphical vision alive and that would've helped the game alot

*Showing gameplay of bf3* Oh god why

Zumba patterns everywhere in that intro!

There's "probably" a story behind the disappointing and mediocre but still fun as hell 3rd person shooter Apocalypse with Bruce Willis for the PSX.

You keep putting TR: Angel of Darkness clips in and I'm just waiting for that to be on Wha Happun

I check and this is the only one were in the thumbnail his sweater/jacket is dark blue 😁

Tao Feng was actually pretty solid.

THIS is the game AVGN should've reviewed not MYTHOLOGIES!

So Dave Michichic is Tommy Tallarico?

Special Forces was littttttttttttttttttttttttt

army of two next

I would have liked to see the Scorpion/Quan-Chi manipulation story in the movie, but the Bi-Han storyline worked well enough. I liked it.

I played special forces....... For five minutes and put it down.

i didn't even know this game existed

Quanchis mk4 voice was terrifying

For some reason that intro makes me think that they tried to rip off the opening of Cowboy Bebop.