With Mortal Kombat 1 on the horizon, we’re revisiting the entry that set the collection on its present trajectory: 2011’s Mortal Kombat (aka MK 9). Be a part of us right this moment and every Friday on Twitch at 2:00 p.m. Central as we take a bloody journey by way of the sport’s genre-defining story marketing campaign. Episodes shall be uploaded to our Recreation Informer Reveals YouTube channel the next Saturday morning.
After 2006’s Mortal Kombat: Armageddon seemingly concluded the franchise’s principal narrative, 2011’s entry picked up the bloody items. It moved the saga ahead by resetting the timeline, serving as a smooth reboot that introduced Mortal Kombat again to its 2D preventing roots and ushering within the return of the traditional roster. MK 9’s cinematic story mode served as an epiphany for the collection and preventing video games as a complete, establishing the blueprint for narrative preventing campaigns nonetheless utilized right this moment. MK9’s story additionally serves as the primary chapter of the fashionable trilogy of video games that Mortal Kombat 1 builds upon.
Be a part of editors Marcus Stewart and Kyle Hilliard as they battle their method by way of MK 9 to see how its reimagined match holds up.
Half 1 – Surpr-iced!
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