For example, picking Scorpion's Inferno Variation at the start of a match allows players to summon demon minions mid-fight. Meanwhile, the new Variations system makes up for the smaller cast by giving each fighter three distinct fighting styles to choose from. A healthy mix of aged classic combatants, like Raiden and Kung Lao, and fresh-faced youngsters, like bee woman D'Vorah and Outworld cowboy Erron Black, give the pared-down, 23-character starting roster a sense of focus lacking in the more bloated MK games. Less Is MoreWhile the plot never makes the best argument for the time skip, these intriguing new character status quos do. Veterans like Sub-Zero and Jax are now gray-haired and bitter while, a new generation of Kombat Kids, like Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade's daughter Cassie, struggle with the weight of great expectations.
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For a series about ninjas ripping heads off, the lengthy cinematics spend an absurd, but thankfully skippable, amount of time on interdimensional politicking and the psychological baggage characters have gained in the past two decades.
Twenty years after the defeat of Shao Kahn, peaceful Earthrealm and warlike Outworld have entered an uneasy truce as the fallen Elder God Shinnok threatens them both. Mortal Kombat X uses that same template to tell a new story with even more care put into it. Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions mean last-gen players aren't left out either.īack to the FutureAs it retold the events of the first three Mortal Kombat games, Mortal Kombat 2011 created a template for seamlessly linking cutscenes and combat in arguably the most lovingly produced fighting game campaign ever.
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I tested it on the Xbox One ($200.00 at eBay) but it's available for the PlayStation 4 ($499.00 at Amazon) and PC as well. Mortal Kombat X also marks the franchise's debut on the next-generation of consoles. However, that doesn't stop this from being a beautifully bloody bash. Mortal Kombat X ($59.99), the direct sequel, can't help but lack some of that rejuvenated energy, and the new ideas it does feature rarely make an impression. But 2011's Mortal Kombat was the best kind of reboot, bringing the franchise back to its beloved roots and establishing its creators at the newly formed NetherRealm Studios as a fighting game force to be reckoned with. After the original trilogy of infamous arcade games took the world by storm in the early 1990s, and helped create the video game rating system in the process, the series began to lose its way amid 3D experiments, middling movies, and comic book crossovers. It's so great that Mortal Kombat is good again.
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