Mortal Kombat 1’s roster will embrace basic MK characters like Liu Kang, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Raiden, Kung Lao, Kitana, Mileena, and Johnny Cage in “reimagined” kind, developer NetherRealm Studios says. It’s going to additionally characteristic a separate suite of combatants named Kameo Fighters, who can help gamers throughout matches.
And in response to a retail itemizing from Amazon Italy, Mortal Kombat 1 can even characteristic visitor characters like Homelander from The Boys, Peacemaker from the DC Universe, and Omni-Man from Invincible. These characters will probably be included as a part of MK1’s Kombat Pack, an add-on included with the premium and collector’s version variations of the sport, in response to an outline of its contents.
Alongside these hyper-violent comedian e book characters are a handful of different Mortal Kombat veterans: Quan Chi, Ermac, and Takeda, variations of whom may conceivably exist in Mortal Kombat 1’s setting.
Amazon’s itemizing additionally mentions 5 presently unannounced Kameo Fighters: Tremor, Khameleon, Mavado, and Ferra. Johnny Cage can also be listed as a part of the Kameo Fighter roster, nevertheless it’s not clear primarily based on the itemizing if that’s particularly the Jean-Claude Van Damme pores and skin for Cage. Polygon has reached out to representatives for Warner Bros. to substantiate the retail itemizing’s accuracy and can replace when the corporate responds.
Mortal Kombat’s roster of visitor characters has sometimes been amusingly various, leaning on comedian e book, motion film, and horror movie villains and antiheroes to flesh out its roster. The latest recreation within the franchise, Mortal Kombat 11, featured John Rambo, RoboCop, the Terminator T-800, Spawn, and The Joker as visitor fighters. Previous video games have featured God of Battle’s Kratos, Alien’s Xenomorph, and Friday the thirteenth’s Jason Voorhees as playable characters.
Mortal Kombat 1 will probably be launched on Nintendo Swap, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X on Sept. 19. The twelfth mainline recreation in NetherRealm’s preventing recreation franchise sends the sequence far into the previous, with Fireplace God Liu Kang making an attempt to rewrite Mortal Kombat historical past with assistance from a younger Raiden and The Nice Kung Lao.