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pieces of gear to choose from,
each with their own augment
slots which allow you to
boost your fighters’ stats. You
can change intro and victory
animations, as well as which
fatalities, brutalities and end-
of-round taunts you wish to
use. There’s also the option to
choose which special abilities
you want your character to
have as part of their move-
set. There’s even an option to
decide on how a fighter would
perform as an AI character.
The MK series has, with increased
frequency, offered more to do outside
of the story and online modes. In MK11
the Towers Of Time is a mode which lets
you undertake timed missions – some
will be simple and last for an hour,
whereas at the opposite end you’ll
find more difficult feats that can take
up to a week to achieve. This will be
one of the areas in which you can
unlock gear for your characters.
You won’t have to wait long at all
to see if this entry will blast all the
previous titles out of the water,
as the game will be released
next month. With so many
improvements, both in the way
that it looks and how it plays, we
reckon this will be the best Mortal
Kombat game ever. Q
MK 11 arrives on 23 April 2019.
The highs and lows of the many, many
Mortal Kombat adaptationsThroughout Mortal Kombat’s life there have been
attempts to adapt the franchise into other media with
varying degrees of success. The most notable of which
are the 1995 live-action movie of the same name and
the 2011 live-action webseries titled Mortal Kombat:
Legacy. The movie, though not exactly a classic, did
well enough to spawn a sequel. That sequel, however,
was awful and a financial failure. MK: Legacy came to
life thanks to a short film pitch by director Kevin
Tancharoen, which saw a more realistic take on the
franchise. The film wasn’t financed, but the concept
was liked enough to create a web series. Dotted around
these have been both live-action and animated TV
series, comic books, and even a music album.BELOW Johnny
Cage has just
been confirmed
as returning,
along with his
signature
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