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''MDK'' is a third-person shooter game developed by Creator/ShinyEntertainment and released in 1997 by Playmates Interactive Entertainment in North America and Creator/InterplayEntertainment in Europe for the PC, Macintosh, and subsequently UsefulNotes/PlayStation. It was one of the first PC games to require a Pentium or equivalent processor, and did not initially have a GPU requirement. The game soundtrack, composed by Music/TommyTallarico, was also separately released.

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''MDK'' is a third-person shooter game developed by Creator/ShinyEntertainment and released in 1997 by Playmates Interactive Entertainment in North America and Creator/InterplayEntertainment in Europe for the PC, Macintosh, and subsequently UsefulNotes/PlayStation.Platform/PlayStation. It was one of the first PC games to require a Pentium or equivalent processor, and did not initially have a GPU requirement. The game soundtrack, composed by Music/TommyTallarico, was also separately released.



A sequel, ''VideoGame/{{MDK2}}'' was developed by Creator/BioWare and released by Interplay for the PC and UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast in 2000, and later for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 (titled ''MDK 2: Armageddon'') in 2001. An enhanced HD remake of ''[=MDK2=]'' was released at the end of July 2012.


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A sequel, ''VideoGame/{{MDK2}}'' was developed by Creator/BioWare and released by Interplay for the PC and UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast Platform/SegaDreamcast in 2000, and later for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 Platform/PlayStation2 (titled ''MDK 2: Armageddon'') in 2001. An enhanced HD remake of ''[=MDK2=]'' was released at the end of July 2012.




* GainaxEnding: The original releases ended with...[[spoiler:a music video]] of all things. [[spoiler:You end with a music video of French musician ''Billy Ze Kick'' performing a cover of ''Non Non Rien N'a Changé'', a French song ''written to protest the Vietnam War''. [[YouBastard Take that]] [[WhatTheHellHero as you will]].]] Later releases, such as the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version and even the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} re-release, removed this, [[AWinnerIsYou but left a sense that it was incomplete as a result]].

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* GainaxEnding: The original releases ended with...[[spoiler:a music video]] of all things. [[spoiler:You end with a music video of French musician ''Billy Ze Kick'' performing a cover of ''Non Non Rien N'a Changé'', a French song ''written to protest the Vietnam War''. [[YouBastard Take that]] [[WhatTheHellHero as you will]].]] Later releases, such as the UsefulNotes/PlayStation Platform/PlayStation version and even the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Platform/{{Steam}} re-release, removed this, [[AWinnerIsYou but left a sense that it was incomplete as a result]].
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''MDK'' is a third-person shooter game developed by Creator/ShinyEntertainment and released in 1997 by Playmates Interactive Entertainment in North America and Creator/InterplayEntertainment in Europe for the PC, Macintosh, and subsequently UsefulNotes/PlayStation. It was one of the first PC games to require a Pentium or equivalent processor, and did not initially have a GPU requirement. The game soundtrack, composed by Creator/TommyTallarico, was also separately released.

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''MDK'' is a third-person shooter game developed by Creator/ShinyEntertainment and released in 1997 by Playmates Interactive Entertainment in North America and Creator/InterplayEntertainment in Europe for the PC, Macintosh, and subsequently UsefulNotes/PlayStation. It was one of the first PC games to require a Pentium or equivalent processor, and did not initially have a GPU requirement. The game soundtrack, composed by Creator/TommyTallarico, Music/TommyTallarico, was also separately released.
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* VagueHitPoints: When an enemy is hit, their LifeMeter is displayed but there's no exact numeric value of how many HitPoints the enemy has, nor how much damage has been dealt.
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* MythologyGag: A ''meta'' one to another Shiny's game. As noted above in TheCameo not only are there VideoGame/EarthwormJim's faces lying around, if you collec one [[DropTheCow a cow falls on one of your enemies]]. Or you if there are none around.
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* SpritePolygonMix: Just about everything in polygonal except Kurt himself, who's a large digitized sprite.

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* SpritePolygonMix: Just about everything in is polygonal except Kurt himself, who's a large digitized sprite.sprite (in the main segments; he has a proper model when making planetfall).

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* AWinnerIsYou: Some re-releases of this game removed [[spoiler: the music video at the end]]. So we see [[spoiler:the Minecrawler base being destroyed]], Kurt jumps on the ''MDK'' logo and...the credits roll. Fortunately, ''VideoGame/{{MDK2}}'' gives us something closer to a proper ending in its [[PreviouslyOn recap]] of this game.



* GainaxEnding: The original releases ended with...[[spoiler:a music video]] of all things. [[spoiler:You end with a music video of French musician ''Billy Ze Kick'' performing a cover of ''Non Non Rien N'a Changé'', a French song ''written to protest the Vietnam War''. [[YouBastard Take that]] [[WhatTheHellHero as you will]].]] Later releases, such as the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version and even the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} re-release, removed this, [[AWinnerIsYou but left a sense that it was incomplete as a result]].

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* GainaxEnding: The original releases ended with...[[spoiler:a music video]] of all things. [[spoiler:You end with a music video of French musician ''Billy Ze Kick'' performing a cover of ''Non Non Rien N'a Changé'', a French song ''written to protest the Vietnam War''. [[YouBastard Take that]] [[WhatTheHellHero as you will]].]] Later releases, such as the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version and even the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} re-release, removed this, [[AWinnerIsYou but left a sense that it was incomplete as a result]].


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* AWinnerIsYou: Some re-releases of this game removed [[spoiler: the music video at the end]]. So we see [[spoiler:the Minecrawler base being destroyed]], Kurt jumps on the ''MDK'' logo and...the credits roll. Fortunately, ''VideoGame/{{MDK2}}'' gives us something closer to a proper ending in its [[PreviouslyOn recap]] of this game.

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