The story begins after the events of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, but then returns to the period in which the first three games - Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 3 - occur. Due to a plot twist (the character Raiden now having knowledge of the future), the events of this time are slightly altered.
Mortal Kombat is the first title in the series to include 3D graphics with gameplay solely on the 2D plane (2.5D). The developers have also stated that this is the first game in which they are making a conscious effort to create deeper gameplay for more dedicated players of the series and of fighting games in general. Mortal Kombat was officially announced on June 10, 2010, accompanied with a debut trailer showcasing the new presentation and new gameplay features.
In terms of gameplay, the developers have intended for Mortal Kombat to be accessible to the casual player, so that the casual player could not be removed from the experience of the game because of its complexity[8] and so that it could promote a back and forth where the gaming experience could be more "engaging for the player" rather than one-sided.With this in mind, the developers have also stated that they intend to focus on the hardcore player by creating new features in the gameplay as to create a deeper fighting experience. Coupled with the new features, the developers have stated that they are bringing in experts on the fighting game genre to help develop a more balanced game.Ed Boon, Mortal Kombat co-creator and creative director of Mortal Kombat, has also stated that they created Mortal Kombat with programming "hooks" that will allow to easily fix post-launch gameplay issues.
Primary gameplay for Mortal Kombat is one-on-one fighting that the series has done over the years and runs at sixty frames per second. The new Mortal Kombat's gameplay is featured on a single 2D fighting plane, which was the second most-requested feature by Mortal Kombat fans for a new title, behind a more violent presentation for the game. Despite being a 2D fighting game, the characters will be rendered three-dimensionally giving Mortal Kombat a 2.5D appearance. This 2D fighting plane, according to Electronic Gaming Monthly, will make the characters' various projectiles more effective in the game as opposed to the other titles in the series.
Unlike previous Mortal Kombat fighting games, there are four attack buttons that each represent a corresponding limb, a concept better known for its existence in the Tekken franchise. A "super meter" was added to enhance the gaming experience, which can be charged by various actions during battle such as performing a combo or getting hit by the opponent. The super meter can be charged to three levels which if used up will either enhance a special attack, interrupt a combo, or cause the attacker to perform a super combo called an X-ray move. During these X-ray moves, the camera will zoom in and will show an inside view of the character who is being attacked while bones and organs are broken or ruptured.
Some modes that have been confirmed are the online mode, the Tag-Team fighting mode, and the Challenge Tower. The Online mode will include a King of the Hill option, where up to eight players will be able to spectate on fights and play the winner; include a rating system where spectators can rate the battles after it is over, and act as a "forum" to find out how to perform various combos or moves they see while spectating a fight.
The four player tag-team feature is completely new to the series, where two players can choose to play together. During a tag-team fight, characters can briefly come in and out of the stage and perform "assist attacks", or can perform "special entry attacks" where the tagged character can enter the stage while attacking and remain in the combat while the other character jumps out.
The Challenge Tower mode is a single player option, that Ed Boon described as "similar to an arcade ladder". It will include specific challenges of various difficulties providing currency rewards upon completion; players will have the option of using up some of this in-game currency to by-pass the more difficult challenges.
Plot
Developer Ed Boon describes the game as an altered re-telling of the events of the original first three Mortal Kombat games (MK, MK II, and MK3).Hector Sanchez confirmed the chronology in an interview:...Raiden is about to be killed by Shao Kahn, and just before he delivers the last blow, he [Raiden] sends a mental message to his earlier self, so the camera rewinds back to Mortal Kombat 1. The Raiden from back then gets a message and he doesn't know what's going on, but he knows something bad's going to happen, and the game spans Mortal Kombat 1, 2, and 3, retelling the story with an enlightened Raiden, and he's changing the course of things, so everything you've seen happen before – Liu Kang winning, the guys turning into cybernetic ninjas, are changed around, so you might see a character become cybernetic who wasn't before, and so you see a different version [of events].
Player will have the ability to play as multiple characters during the course of story. The developers also stated that in the past the story had been ignored in favor for gameplay "action", but that this will change with this chapter of the series, with the plot being significantly more substantial than predecessor Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.The story begins with Raiden, just when he is about to be killed by Shao Kahn in the events that happen after Armageddon. In a last effort, he sends a message to himself in the past, in the era of "Mortal Kombat", the first game. The rest of the story follows that Raiden's past and shows him trying to understand the visions and messages he gets from himself in the future and trying to prevent the events that lead to destruction of all realities.
Character
Ed Boon stated in an interview with IGN that there will be a focus on characters from the first three games (Mortal Kombat, MKII, and MK3), claiming "If you have a favorite character from those games, you're probably going to see him or her in the game."[14] There will be a roster of roughly 26 characters overall in the game.[22]
The developers of the team have stated that the characters have been designed with the intent to make each character unique. With this idea, the developers have given the characters their own individual stances, victory poses and Fatalities as opposed to previous games. Lead designer John Edwards has gone on to say that certain characters are differentiated by speed and playstyle, as in some characters are power oriented and do not need to perform combos while others will be grapple oriented.[9] It has also been stated that no characters will receive shared animations.[23]
Mortal Kombat producer Shaun Himmerick stated that the internal and external character design took about "two months to ten weeks", citing individual characters like Mileena and Reptile, who have unique facial structures, and robotic characters who have cables instead of tendons, were opposed to character design in earlier titles and took, "about six weeks".[24]
The development team also confirmed at GamesCom 2010 that every character would have two fatalities[25], each with the ability to perform stage fatalities.[26] According to Ed Boon there will be fifty to sixty fatalities included in Mortal Kombat.[19] Twenty-two playable characters have been revealed to date, being Baraka,[27] Cyrax,[28] Ermac,[29] Jade,[30] Jax,[31] Johnny Cage,[28] Kano,[32] Kitana,[28] Kung Lao,[28] Liu Kang,[27] Mileena,[28] Nightwolf,[28] Noob Saibot,[33] Raiden,[24] Reptile,[28] Scorpion,[28] Sektor,[28] Shang Tsung,[32] Sindel,[29]Sonya,[34] Stryker[27] and Sub-Zero.[28]
Goro[27] and Shao Kahn[24] have been confirmed to be bosses, but it is still unknown whether they will be playable.[35]
The character Kratos from the God of War series is available as a playable (in versus mode only) character exclusively on the PlayStation 3 version.[36] Boon stated that the Mortal Kombat team felt Kratos would "fit perfectly" into the Mortal Kombat universe.[37]
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