One of the new characters coming to Mortal Kombat X is an amalgam of three man-machine characters from the fighting game franchise’s history. But it turns out that there’s another robot ninja lurking inside that chassis. One who makes things a whole lot cooler.
During the Season 2 Finals of competitive gaming promotion ESL, fans of the long-running, over-the-top martial arts games got an extended look at Tri-Borg, whose variations let him uses moves from legacy characters Cyrax, Sektor and Smoke. You can see Tri-Borg in action at about 07:23:00 in the stream below.
But the trio of Lin Kuei cyborgs aren’t the only options for players who choose Tri-Borg. The existence of a Cyber Sub-Zero variation also happened the ESL event in a sequence captured here:
This isn’t just a re-skin, either. You can see the character’s unique moveset flash by in the pause menu.
It’s fun to see Netherrealm tweak their own Variation system to pay homage to another old-school variant from MK history. Players will be able to sample Cyber Sub-Zero (if they have a console) when the Kombat Pack 2 expansion and the new Mortal Kombat XL comes out on March 4 in Europe and March 1 in North America.
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3 responses to “Mortal Kombat X’s New Tri-Borg Is Really Four Robots In One”
*Unless they have the PC game, then they’re screwed.
“It’s fun to see Netherrealm tweak their own Variation system to pay homage to another old-school variant from MK history”
Correct me if I am wrong, but I was pretty sure Cyber Sub Zero was introduced in MK9. That hardly makes him an ‘old school variant’
Buy the game on launch, pay for a bunch of extra characters.
Buy updated re-release version, get everything for the same price as the original game.
Fuck I hate that this is now considered the norm. I shouldn’t be punished for actually wanting to buy the game as soon as it comes out.