Mortal Kombat 1’s Next Adventure Is a Krisis on Infinite Earths

When Mortal Kombat 1 came retired past year, it gave the warring franchise a full-on reboot with caller presumption quos for its characters. By the clip the credits rolled connected the story mode, it was wide that NetherRealm was going to bash similar comics and dip into immoderate multiversal madness for the forseeable future. And similar different stories focused connected alternate realities, it’s each starring to a clump of bloody fights.

During the game’s sheet astatine San Diego Comic-Con, NetherRealm revealed the upcoming Khaos Reigns expansion. Plot-wise, it takes spot immoderate clip aft MK1’s story, and concerns an evil Titan mentation of Havik threatening the caller premier beingness holding Liu Kang and company. Helping the radical against Titan Havik are caller versions of Cyrax (Enuka Onuma) and Sektor (Erika Ishii), present reimagined arsenic quality women wearing armor akin to their archetypal cyborg ninja designs. But this Havik’s got an ace up his sleeve successful Bi-Han (Kaiji Tang), who had his psyche transformed into Noob Saibot. The Aftermath expansion for Mortal Kombat 11 set up the communicative for MK1, so you tin astir apt stake connected some Khaos making immoderate large moves of its own.

Along with those three, 3 impermanent stars volition articulation Mortal Kombat 1’s roster. If you’ve ever wanted to portion up immoderate MK characters arsenic Ghostface from Scream, the T-1000 from Terminator 2, or Conan the Barbarian, here’s your chance. Both Roger Jackson and Robert Patrick are said to beryllium reprising their respective roles arsenic Ghostface and the T-1000, portion Conan’s dependable histrion is yet to beryllium revealed. It’ll beryllium absorbing to spot who’s down Ghostface, particularly fixed the franchise’s often chaotic non-canonical endings.

Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns launches connected September 24, either arsenic its ain happening oregon bundled with the basal crippled and first DLC pack.

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