From the Vault — originally published January 21, 2011. Some links, videos or prices may be out of date.
The box art for the upcoming Mortal Kombat game has finally been revealed and here it is. The game will be released April 19th and is supposed to be a reboot of sorts of the series.
Developer Ed Boon describes the game as an altered re-telling of the events of the original first three Mortal Kombat games. He says:
“…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].”
The PS3 version will feature Kratos as an Exclusive character and there is no word yet on whether there will be an exclusive character for the Xbox 360 version.
Here are both versions of the box art:
