Mortal Kombat 1 yr 2 DLC Khaos Reigns introduced at SDCC 2024

Mortal Kombat 1’s subsequent yr of content material materials will ship six additional characters, new story content material materials, and a returning ending switch, the Animality, to the stopping recreation, developer NetherRealm Studios launched at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday.

NetherRealm chief creative officer Ed Boon was obtainable at SDCC 2024 to reveal a model new Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath-style add-on known as Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns, which arrives on Sept. 24. That enlargement will embody the following characters:

• Cyrax
• Sektor
• Noob Saibot
• Terminator T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Ghostface from Scream
• Conan the Barbarian

Cyrax, Noob Saibot, and Sektor will be obtainable when Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns launches in September. The three remaining customer fighters will be launched afterward, at to-be-announced dates.

Cyrax and Sektor, who’re every cyborg ninjas, are already featured in Mortal Kombat 1 as Kameo Fighters. Nevertheless the model new iterations are female human variations of the characters. Voice actors Enuka Okuma, Erika Ishii, and Kaiji Tang are confirmed to voice Cyrax, Sektor, and Noob Saibot, respectively. (Tang moreover voiced Sub-Zero/Bi-Han in MK1.)

Roger L. Jackson will reprise his place as a result of the voice of Ghostface, and Robert Patrick will return to voice the T-1000 in Khaos Reigns.

Animalities, a ending switch launched in Mortal Kombat 3, are moreover returning in yr 2 of MK1. These Fatality-like strikes comprise characters remodeling into animals and killing their opponents in ingenious strategies. On the Mortal Kombat 1 SDCC panel, NetherRealm confirmed just a few Animality examples: Mileena remodeling proper right into a praying mantis and consuming her opponent, and Rain remodeling proper right into a puffer fish, then exploding his sufferer from the inside. A trailer for Khaos Reigns revealed way more, with Animality strikes that embody a hyena, hippopotamus, a gorilla, and a scorpion. (Huh, I’m questioning who that’s more likely to be?)

Mortal Kombat 1’s expanded story will focus on masochistic menace Havok and his dedication to unleash chaos on the NetherRealm on the end of the distinctive recreation’s story. Havok serves as Khaos Reign’s predominant menace, and seems to be accountable for reviving Sub-Zero as Noob Saibot.

The Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns enlargement costs $49.99 on PlayStation 5, Residence home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X. The Nintendo Change mannequin costs $39.99. Kombat Pack 2 just isn’t going to be obtainable as a stand-alone character bundle, author Warner Bros. talked about in a data launch.

Kombat Pack 1 included six post-launch characters for Mortal Kombat 1: MK mainstays Quan Chi, Ermac, and Takeda, and customer characters Invincible’s Omni-Man, The Boys’ Homelander, and DC’s Peacemaker. Six Kameo Fighters had been moreover launch by the use of DLC, with Mavado, Ferra, Tremor, Janet Cage, and Khameleon changing into a member of as assist characters.

The Mortal Kombat sequence’ roster of customer characters has typically been extraordinarily numerous, leaning on comic e book, movement movie, and horror film villains and antiheroes to flesh out its lineup. The sooner recreation inside the franchise, Mortal Kombat 11, featured John Rambo, RoboCop, the Terminator T-800, Spawn, and The Joker as customer fighters. Earlier video video games have featured God of Warfare’s Kratos, Alien’s Xenomorph, and Friday the thirteenth’s Jason Voorhees as playable characters.

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