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). Join us at this time on Twitch at 2:00 p.m. Central as we take a bloody journey by way of the sport’s style-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 tender 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 collection and preventing video games as an entire, establishing the blueprint for narrative preventing campaigns nonetheless utilized at this time. MK9’s story additionally serves as the primary chapter of the trendy trilogy of video games that Mortal Kombat 1 builds upon. For an entire lot extra on MK9 and its improvement, you may learn this function on how the reboot saved the franchise.
Join editors Marcus Stewart and Kyle Hilliard as they battle their manner by way of MK 9 to see how its reimagined event holds up.
Part 1 – Surpr-iced!
Part 2 – Bringing The Smoke
Part 3 – Staff Meeting
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