2019-04-01_Official_Xbox_Magazine

OXM

SAYS

I’ve always loved

NetherRealm’s fighting

games, having been a huge

fan of both the MK and

Injustice series for years, so it

will be interesting to see how

they’ve pushed the fighting

mechanic for MK11 to move

the series on this time.

Chris

Burke

Character customisation was

one of my favourite aspects

of Injustice 2, so I’m happy to

see it migrate over to MK11.

I’m also keen to see how

Geras plays, I have never

known a fighting game

character to actually mess

around with the battle timer.

Drew

Sleep

I’m really digging the new

character designs. D’vorah

and Jade in particular. Where

once you had utterly

impractical outfits, you now

have get-ups that make

them look the part. I can’t

wait to see the designs for all

the other characters.

Adam

Bryant

BELOW Stabby

blood mage

Skarlet debuted

in 2011’s Mortal

Kombat reboot.

previous games. The studio set

a new standard when it came

to telling a story in fighting games

with Injustice 2, and it seems that

those same narrative sensibilities

have been brought across to MK11.

This is evident from the cutscenes

we’ve seen so far, which are

deliciously cinematic. This is thanks

to a combination of superb direction

and exceptional motion capture.

There are already a few things we

know about the story thanks to the

steady stream of information coming

from the Kombat Kast streams,

trailers, behind-the-scenes videos

and with our own hands-on time with

the game. But there’s also a certain

amount of speculation that we can

make, based on the events that

unfolded in the previous games.

A matter of time

The story takes place directly after

the events of Mortal Kombat X, which

saw the defeat of the evil Elder God,

Shinnok. After his defeat, thunder

god Raiden claimed Shinnok’s amulet

for himself but got corrupted in the

process. Although still on the side of

046 THE OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE