Mortal Kombat II’s trailer has arrived, set to ship a video game-accurate Mortal Kombat event, with all of the carnage and darkish humor the franchise is understood for.
Within the trailer, Karl City’s Johnny Cage is noticed at a bar, the place a fan acknowledges him and cracks some meta jokes about his profession and Hollywood reboots. Not lengthy after, Raiden (Tadanobu Asano) and Sonya (Jessica McNamee) method him in a parking storage to recruit him for the event.
Set to “Wu-Tang clan ain’t nuthing is the very best,” the trailer showcases a number of high-energy matchups, together with Cage dealing with off in opposition to Kitana (Adeline Rudolph) and Baraka, Jax (Mehcad Brooks) battling each Jade (Tati Gabrielle) and later Kitana, and Sindel (Ana Thu Nguyen) unleashing her iconic scream assault. Scorpion (Hiroyuki Sanada) can also be briefly proven clashing with Noob Saibot. The trailer ends with a rapid-fire montage of brutalities and fatalities, promising the franchise’s signature over-the-top violence.
So far as the plot goes, it’s fairly much like the klassic video games, which sees Earthrealm one defeat away from being invaded and dominated over by Outworld’s very personal Shao Kahn (performed by bodybuilder Martyn Ford.)
A kountdown event led as much as the trailer launch, that includes an interactive reveal of all of the fighters taking part within the event by way of posters of the actors. The presentation resembled the basic fighter choice display screen from the video games, permitting viewers within the chat to vote by selecting between choices 1 or 2 to find out which character could be unveiled first.
Mortal Kombat 2 is slated to be launched in theaters on Oct. 24.
