Mortal Kombat 1 continues to look absolutely brutal — and incredible. And two fan-favourite characters have been confirmed to be returning in a new trailer, which debuted during Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023.
Shao Kahn and Sindel — who made their debuts in Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat III respectively — will be ruling the Outworld in the upcoming bloody beat 'em up.
Shao Kahn has been reimagined as General Shao, while Sindel resides as the Empress of the Outworld. Joining these two new kombatants are two Kameo fighters, Motaro and Shujinko.
Fatalities are abound in this trailer, with Sindel showcasing her impressive power with her hair. Also, there's lots of crunchy, gory action — because of course there is. Of course, the gameplay doesn't look like it's running on Switch — we'll have to wait and see on 19th September how it plays.
Check out the trailer by hopping over to YouTube. It should go without saying — make sure you're not at work or around the kids when you check this out.
Are you excited for Mortal Kombat 1? Will you be grabbing this on Switch? Get brutal in the comments.
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Hmmm General Shao, had to watch it back a few times for some reason had him confused with a re imagining of hsu hao. nice to see shujinko and motaro back as kameos too. Raiden and sindel also looking fire
Hope they will finally fix that stupid retcon of Sindel being evil from 11. Hyped to see Shujinko back!
It's in our blood!!
I love this new design for Sindel!
So is Sindel good again?
@Itachi2099 everyone but Lui kang got retconned via plot device.
hopefully the game will run well on the switch..
But where's King Jerrod? This was Liu Kang's opportunity to bring back Kitana's royal family but it looks like Jerrod is still gone.
@Itachi2099 Been a while since I've played, but didn't Shao Khan turn Sindel evil in MK9 with some kind of enchantment?
Great to see Motaro return, even if he's just a kameo. We still need Switch footage, I'm confident it'll look/run fine if 11 is anything to go by.
@judaspete that's how it always was, Sindel was brainwashed by Kahn at first but she was freed from Shao Kahn's mindcontrol later down the line cuz she was a good person at heart.
In MK11 they tried to retcon it into a stupid twist saying "she was actually always evil!". Literally nobody liked that retcon and there was a huge backlash over it in the community. So here's hoping they listened and changed it back to how it always was before.
Terrible trailer….to such an extent!
@KryptoniteKrunch Just don't look at the hair but I'm sure it will run...good enough.
@Ryu_Niiyama @judaspete Sindel was never good in any of the past MK games. She was always evil, she has been evil in MK3/Ultimate MK3, and MK Trilogy. She was evil in MK Deception, Armageddon, MK9, and MK11 as well. This will be the only time she is good. Ed Boon fool everyone that Sindel was a good person in MK Deception (her ending use as a ruse) but what everyone didn't know was that all the endings in MK Deception (aside from Scorpion and Shujinko) were all non-canon meaning Sindel never did turn to the side of good during and after Deception. In MK Armageddon, even though we don't see Sindel fighting in the intro, observing the fights where Sheeva is involve already should tell you that Sindel was still evil as Sheeva is very loyal to Sindel and would only allie herself on the same side Sindel is with so since Sheeva is fighting against the good guys in that opening, that means Sindel is still evil. Remember that all the past MK games that show Sindel's ending having her being turn good are all false and all non-canon. Heck I don't even think Kitana was ever Sindel's daughter either, all those info were only reveal in the endings and since those endings are non-canon, so are their relationship.
@Serpenterror you've no clue what you're talking about, literally everything you've said you just made up.
The majority of endings in MK games are and always were canon and they continue plot threads eastablished in them to make future stories move forward. Cyrax became human again in MK4 and joined Special Forces, which is what his background is in DA. Mileena was imprisoned by Kitana in MKGold which follows into the story of DA and Deception. Scorpion found out Sub-Zero was Kuai Liang in MK2 and was his protector moving forward which was in MK3 and so on.
In the official canon Sindel was always good, her ending for MK3 proves that and that ending is canon - she was freed from brainwashing of Shao Kahn, her ending for Deception is canon as well as it flows right after her MK3 ending, she's the reason why warriors who died in Deadly Alliance were brought back to life including Kitana, it's because Sindel and Jade fought Onaga's forces to bring everyone back. Her ending is literally the reason good guys are alive again after they were all killed in Deadly Alliance, which is why all of them are back in Armageddon to begin with. Her characters bio in Deception and Armageddon literally says that she's on the side of good lmao
Bringing up Armageddon intro as some sort of proof of canon is also dumb, because Scorpion is on the side of bad guys in the intro when he isn't supposed to be, he's either neutral or good AND HE WAS good at that point in the franchise because he was chosen as a champion of the Elder Gods to stop Onaga in Deception. They just put him in the bad guys side for the intro because they needed any reason to make him and Sub-Zero fight for a big CGI opening.
Stop making up headcanon to try and excuse bad writing of MK11.
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