New Mortal Kombat trailer looks so cool we’re almost not annoyed they’re calling it Mortal Kombat 1
This super bloody trailer is apparently a graphical representation of our brains when we heard they were calling the 12th game in the series Mortal Kombat 1
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Let’s deal with this, first and foremost: They announced a new Mortal Kombat game today, and for reasons that we could get into a lot easier this evening, were we not suddenly afflicted with a pounding headache drilling straight through our brains, WB Games and NetherRealm Studios have opted to call this new video game—the 12th (ish) title in this long-running series—Mortal Kombat 1.
Yeah, there’s the headache. God, it’s right behind our eye…
See, they couldn’t do the usual “back to basics” naming convention with this one and just call it Mortal Kombat—an irritating, but basically accepted move at this point—because they already did that, back in 2011, for the ninth game in the series. (Were we ever so young?) So instead, they’re marking that this game is apparently supposed to be a reset to the franchise’s shockingly convoluted chronology—courtesy of the time-smooshing ending of Mortal Kombat 11—by declaring that it’s Mortal Kombat 1. Which, to be fair, is a title the series has never used before, because you don’t refer to things as “So and So 1" when you’ve only got… one of them.
So that’s fine.
Anyway the other thing about this trailer is that it’s clearly determined to be a real Mortal Kombat-ass trailer; new god of reality Liu Kang might talk a whole lot about peace and friendship and tranquility here, but things swiftly devolve into the real, gory shit once the mortal kombating starts breaking out. Heads explode, throats get cut, a guy gets, like, unzipped: Even without any gameplay footage, NetherRealm clearly wants us to know that the bodycount will be up to series standards on *sigh* Mortal Kombat 1 when it hits consoles on September 19.
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“You have chosen to defy peace.”
Wait! No I didn’t! Can we go back to that “live in quiet serenity” or “dwell in joyous prosperity” bit. That sounded nice.
They should call it a normal name, like ‘M12: The Kombat Saga’.
Don’t people’s ‘violence receptors’ every get completely dulled by this stuff? The trailer…. my mind kept drifting elsewhere during the smashing. It just isn’t interesting.
I figured it’s more of a “gore entertainment” thing than a “violence entertainment” (e.g. John Wick) thing.
ok. I guess I didn’t think about the difference. So, kind of a teenager “Oohh maaan, cool” kid of gore entertainment. It doesn’t look real at all, though:/
I started chuckling at the excessive gore, like it was an Evil Dead movie.
I was just thinking of that after the other commenter pointed out the difference. Yeah, I’m also starting to laugh at the extravagance. Any more and it might veer into parody.