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Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992.. The original Mortal Kombat arcade game spawned a franchise consisting of action-adventure games, a comic book series, a card game, films, an animated TV series, and a live-action tour.
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.
Liu Kang (Chinese: 劉康) is a fictional character of the Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise by Midway Games and NetherRealm Studios.Depicted as Earthrealm's greatest warrior and champion, he debuted in the original 1992 game as a Shaolin monk with special moves, which were intended to be the easiest for players to perform.
A gameplay screenshot of Liu Kang fighting against Oni enemies. The game features three main modes of play. Aside from a single-player mode, the game has a co-operative mode, where two players can work together through the game, with access to some areas and items that are inaccessible in single-player mode.
The game takes place in Earthrealm, where a tournament is being held on Shang Tsung's Island, on which seven of its locations serve as stages in the game.The introduction to Mortal Kombat explains that Shang Tsung was banished to Earthrealm 500 years ago and, with the help of the monstrous Goro, can seize control of the Mortal Kombat tournament in an attempt to doom the realm. [8]
Mortal Kombat (also known as Mortal Kombat 9 (MK9) is a 2011 fighting game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.It is the ninth main installment in the Mortal Kombat series and a soft reboot of the series.
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.
In the original Mortal Kombat game Shang Tsung is a computer-controlled boss that launches fireball projectiles (consisting of a flaming skull, in contrast to Liu Kang's fireball which is shaped like a Chinese dragon) and can morph into other characters at will; this gives him access to all of the Kombatants' signature moves.