As reported yesterday, the new Mortal Kombat‘s first dose of downloadable content delivers new skins for the game’s wacky human ninja crew, in honour of the early ’90s law of ninja costume conservation.
Episode seven of director Kevin Tancharoen’s live-action Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series touches on the origin of two of the video game franchise’s most iconic characters, Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Why did they use two actors instead of just palette swapping?
We’re actually quite excited about the new Mortal Kombat. It’s doing that fancy thing of going 2.5D; rebooting the franchise whilst moving back to what made the series so popular to begin with. In short it’s doing a Street Fighter IV, but in a Mortal Kombat way, if that makes any sense.
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You’ve seen the reason Sub-Zero fights, now check out the chillingly brutal moves the ice ninja is bringing to the next Mortal Kombat.