Mortal Kombat 1 developer NetherRealm has launched the primary gameplay for DLC visitor character the T-1000 and confirmed Madam Bo as a DLC Kameo fighter.
The T-1000 gameplay reveals off a quantity of assaults that rekindle recollections of Terminator 2, together with the T-1000’s blade and hook arms. At one level we see the T-1000 flip into a liquid metallic blob earlier than rising from the bottom in an uppercut reminiscent of assaults by Killer Intuition’s Glacius.
Mortal Kombat 1’s T-1000 options the voice and likeness of actor Robert Patrick, who famously performed the character within the 1991 movie. This teaser reveals Patrick’s voice work for the primary time in a conflict with Johnny Cage. It ends with a longer take a look at one of the T-1000’s Fatalities, which recreates the enduring chase scene in Terminator 2 the place the T-1000 drives a truck in pursuit of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator and Edward Furlong’s John Connor. Within the Fatality, the T-1000 blobs out of the motive force’s seat to pump the hapless Cage full of lead.
In the meantime, NetherRealm made the shock announcement that Madam Bo is about to hit Mortal Kombat 1 as a DLC Kameo fighter similtaneously the T-1000. Madam Bo is a fan-favorite character from the bottom Mortal Kombat 1 story, an aged restaurant proprietor who fends off Smoke and his goons earlier than Raiden and Kung Lao get caught in.
The T-1000 is on the market in Mortal Kombat 1 beginning March 18 as half of the early entry interval for Khaos Reigns house owners, adopted by huge availability for buy on March 25. Madam Bo is on the market on March 18 as a free content material replace for Khaos Reigns house owners or as a standalone buy.
T-1000 is the ultimate DLC character set to be added to the gory combating recreation as half of the Khaos Reigns growth, and follows playable fighters Cyrax, Sektor, Noob Saibot, Ghostface, and Conan the Barbarian. Followers have questioned for a while now whether or not developer NetherRealm plans a third set of DLC characters, or a Kombat Pack 3, amid questions on Mortal Kombat 1’s gross sales success.
Dad or mum firm Warner Bros. Discovery has indicated, nonetheless, that it nonetheless believes within the Mortal Kombat franchise. In November, CEO David Zaslav stated that on the video games facet of issues, the corporate plans to double down on simply 4 titles, one of which is Mortal Kombat.
In September, Mortal Kombat growth chief Ed Boon stated NetherRealm had selected its subsequent recreation three years prior, however promised to help Mortal Kombat 1 “for a very long time to return.”
Most followers of the studio’s work count on it to launch a third recreation in its DC combating recreation franchise, Injustice, though neither NetherRealm nor Warner Bros. has but to verify that. The primary recreation within the sequence, Injustice: Gods Amongst Us, launched in 2013, with its sequel, Injustice 2, popping out in 2017. NetherRealm launched Mortal Kombat 11 in 2019 and for a time it appeared just like the studio would alternate between Mortal Kombat and Injustice video games, however it went on to launch one other Mortal Kombat, the delicate reboot that’s Mortal Kombat 1, in 2023 as a substitute.
In an interview with IGN in June 2023, Boon spoke in obscure phrases about this resolution. “There have been a quantity of elements, some of which I can discuss, some of which I in all probability should not,” Boon stated.
Two causes Boon was prepared to debate have been the unlucky onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the staff’s alternative to change to a newer model of the Unreal recreation engine (Mortal Kombat 11 runs on Unreal Engine 3, whereas Mortal Kombat 1 runs on Unreal Engine 4).
“However we did go to a new graphics engine, Unreal,” Boon stated. “We actually needed to watch out with COVID and all that stuff and all people staying secure. So there have been a bunch of variables concerned that ultimately we realized, ‘Okay, let’s do one other Mortal Kombat recreation and hopefully we’ll get again to the Injustice video games.’ “
Simply to make sure, we needed to verify with him immediately that the door was not closed on the Injustice franchise.
“Under no circumstances,” Boon answered.
Wesley is the UK Information Editor for IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You may attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.