With Mortal Kombat 1 on the horizon, we’re revisiting the entry that set the sequence on its present trajectory: 2011’s Mortal Kombat (aka MK 9). Join us at present and every Friday on Twitch at 2:00 p.m. Central as we take a bloody journey by the sport’s genre-defining story marketing campaign. Episodes shall be uploaded to our Game Informer Shows YouTube channel the next Saturday morning.
After 2006’s Mortal Kombat: Armageddon seemingly concluded the franchise’s predominant 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 basic roster. MK 9’s cinematic story mode served as an epiphany for the sequence and preventing video games as a complete, establishing the blueprint for narrative preventing campaigns nonetheless utilized at present. MK9’s story additionally serves as the primary chapter of the fashionable trilogy of video games that Mortal Kombat 1 builds upon.
Join editors Marcus Stewart and Kyle Hilliard as they battle their method by MK 9 to see how its reimagined match holds up.
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