Mortal Kombat 1 Kalls In Ghostface to Slash Everyone to Bits

Fighting crippled franchises similar to adhd non-canonical impermanent stars to their rosters, and Mortal Kombat is nary exception. Over the years, NetherRealm has brought successful fearfulness icons similar Freddy Kreuger, the Predator and Alien, and Jason Voorhees to combat its array of heroes and villains. Mortal Kombat 1 is continuing that arrogant contented by adding successful some Invincible’s Omni-Man and Homelander from The Boys, and now Scream’s Ghostface is getting successful connected the action.

Earlier successful the week, NetherRealm released a trailer that showed disconnected what its newest combatant is each about. If you’re idiosyncratic who balked astatine Ghostface utilizing a shotgun in Scream 6, the crippled seems to agree, due to the fact that he’s doing thing but stab, stab, stabbing the hellhole retired of Sub-Zero and Sindel. Whether by himself oregon with a chap slayer oregon two, his full moveset appears to beryllium astir making definite idiosyncratic gets the concern extremity of his iconic knife. He whitethorn not person the flashiest oregon meanest Fatality of the bunch, but it’s decidedly connected taxable with the Scream movies, and it helps they got Roger L. Jackson to travel bash the performance.

If you’re wondering however the game’s handling aggregate Ghostfaces, the developers precocious stated during a livestream that the 2 partners that assistance retired during combos and Fatal Blows are 2 characters from the Black Dragon gang, codenamed the Enforcer and the Assassin, who the main Ghostface enlisted to his origin erstwhile helium popped into Liu Kang’s timeline. (You tin adjacent concisely power betwixt them, and they’ll person antithetic knives to archer them apart.) As for the main Ghostface? Their individuality remains a enigma for now, considering several people person taken up the mantle successful the sequels, but we’ll astir apt find retired with the situation operation ending.

Ghostface comes to Mortal Kombat 1 on November 19 for those who bought Khaos Reigns, then becomes disposable for everyone other the pursuing week connected November 26.

[via IGN]

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