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Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is a 2002 fighting game developed and published by Midway for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance.It was the first all-new Mortal Kombat fighting game produced exclusively for home consoles, with no preceding arcade release.
The GameCube version includes two additional playable characters, Goro and Shao Kahn, who were both killed in the opening sequence of Deadly Alliance. [11] The 2006 PlayStation Portable version of the game, Mortal Kombat: Unchained, includes Goro and Kahn along with Deadly Alliance returnees Blaze, Frost, Jax, and Kitana.
Mortal Kombat is a video game franchise originally developed and produced by Midway Games.The video games are a series of fighting games and several action-adventure games which debuted in North American arcades on October 8, 1992 with the release of Mortal Kombat, created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. [1]
Upon his death in Deadly Alliance, IGN ' s Jeremy Dunham noted that Liu Kang was killed as part of the series' "'starting over' mentality". [102] Complex remarked that the Mortal Kombat developers "finally found their groove again with Deadly Alliance, which began by snapping Liu Kang's neck". [103] Game Informer described his death as a "shock ...
Deadly Alliance was released initially for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube. [56] [57] [58] Deadly Alliance was also the first Mortal Kombat game to feature fully 3D gameplay, where up to Mortal Kombat 4 the gameplay had stayed in a 2D plane; this trend would continue for the following two games.
A spin-off centered on Liu Kang had been considered since the early 2000s, but was shelved after negative reception to the previous adventure spin-offs, Mythologies: Sub-Zero (1997) and Special Forces (2000). Shaolin Monks was officially announced in 2004 as part of Midway's plan to release Mortal Kombat games annually.
The Xbox version gameplay screenshot, showing a fight between the zombie Liu Kang and Jade. Each character possesses two fighting styles (instead of the three previously available in Deadly Alliance and Deception), one hand-to-hand and one weapon. [7] Some of the larger bosses, like Onaga, have only one fighting style available. [8]
After her defeat, Liu Kang recruited another Nitara variant who used her powers for good to cure his allies infected by her evil counterpart. [193] The character was designed by Luis Mangubat, and a male vampire counterpart was also planned for Deadly Alliance but the developers were unable to add him to the game in time. [267]