Warner Bros. Video games has revealed gameplay for Homelander, the subsequent DLC character for Mortal Kombat 1.
Homelander, who is predicated on the supervillain from Prime Video’s mega hit present The Boys, seems as a visitor DLC character in NetherRealm’s gory combating sport, and based mostly on the gameplay trailer beneath, the ‘evil Superman’ is a good match.
Homelander joins the #MortalKombat1 roster on June 4, Ferra Kameo joins later in June. Try their game-play right here!https://t.co/QIjuLCEPWe
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This is the official blurb on Homelander:
Homelander is essentially the most highly effective being on the planet and the chief of The Seven, the elite superhero workforce owned and managed by Vought Worldwide. In a world the place “Supes” are made, he’s the strongest of all of them. Homelander presents himself as the final word patriot and protector, however don’t let his film star attractiveness or excessive approval ranking idiot you. He’s a murderous, narcissistic sociopath with an insatiable want for validation, love, and energy. Homelander’s destruction of enemies and lust for energy doesn’t finish along with his world. Challengers from different realms can even face his wrath. As seen within the new video, Homelander asserts dominance over opponents via his tremendous energy, aerial assaults, and capability to laser enemies along with his eyes.
If you will get via Homelander’s disgusting milk-drinking victory pose, you’ll see he makes use of his well-known laser eyes in a lot of his combo constructing, as a launcher, an interrupt, in addition to a combo extender. Certainly, the laser eyes are the idea of one in every of Homelander’s Fatalities, which we get a glimpse at at the tip of the clip.
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Mortal Kombat 1 followers have questioned who Homelander may differ from comparable Superman-style characters already within the sport, comparable to Omni-Man from the Invincible sequence. Based mostly on the gameplay trailer, we will see Homelander shares many skills with Omni-Man, comparable to flight and heavy hitting assaults, however the distinction seems to be in pace and, once more, these laser eyes.
Warner Bros. has remained coy in regards to the voice actor behind Mortal Kombat 1’s Homelander. Antony Starr, who performs Homelander in The Boys, has mentioned he’s not voicing the character within the sport, a lot to the frustration of followers. Omni-Man voice actor J. Okay. Simmons reprised his position for Mortal Kombat 1, as did Peacemaker actor John Cena. It’s unclear why Starr didn’t do the identical right here. Nonetheless, followers will have the ability to stay out their Homelander versus Omni-Man fantasies via Mortal Kombat 1 when the character is made accessible subsequent month.
In the meantime, we additionally get a look at Kameo character Ferra, who Homelander makes use of to arrange a variety of combos. Ferra is the small fighter who sat atop the hulking Torr as a part of the mixed Ferra & Torr character from Mortal Kombat X.
Homelander hits Mortal Kombat 1 on June 4 for early entry gamers, adopted by broad availability on June 11, whereas Ferra has a June launch window. You want the Premium Version or the Kombat Pack to play early. The Mortal Kombat 1 Kombat Pack contains the Jean-Claude Van Damme character pores and skin for Johnny Cage (accessible now), and one-week early entry to 6 playable DLC characters: Omni-Man (accessible now), Quan Chi (accessible now), Peacemaker (accessible now), Ermac (accessible now), Homelander (out quickly), and Takeda Takahashi, in addition to 5 DLC Kameo fighters. The Boys Season 4, in the meantime, kicks off June 13.
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