![]() ![]() One of his fatalities involves dropping a Mortal Kombat 1 arcade cabinet (sans Daniel Pesina’s likeness on the side) on the opponent. Same special moves, same ridiculous voice samples. His actor may be new, but aside from that and the new chain combos he is still the Liu Kang we know from MKII. Liu Kang is still the chosen hero and Grand Champion of Mortal Kombat. Some of the MK3 newcomers were quite popular, others… less so. To replace the old characters that didn’t make it, several new kombatants show up and bring the playable cast up to 15. This may have contributed to Raiden’s omission (aside from brief cameos) from MK3. He and his brother Carlos, who played Raiden, apparently also did some work on Data East’s infamous Tattoo Assassins, an unreleased MK clone with the most ludicrous finishing moves ever seen in a fighter. At least he wasn’t afraid to die.Īfter leaving Midway, Daniel Pesina appeared in an ad for an MK clone called Bloodstorm dressed up as Johnny Cage, leading to a long-standing misconception that he was fired for doing the ad. Johnny Cage, on the other hand, is killed by Shao Kahn’s extermination squads. This is what happened to all the ninjas, except for Sub-Zero who is now played by a new actor and appears unmasked. (Shang Tsung) and Daniel Pesina (Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Reptile, Smoke, Noob Saibot, Johnny Cage), which pretty much meant most of the cast had to be replaced for MK3 or removed. The departing cast members were Ho Sung Pak (Liu Kang), his then-girlfriend Katalin Zamiar (Kitana, Mileena, Jade), Elizabeth Malecki (Sonya), Philip Ahn M.D. ![]() Some time after Mortal Kombat II, several of the actors who played the MK characters left Midway over royalty disputes, and a few of them even pursued legal action against the company. While all of this sounds well and good, not everything was going perfectly behind the scenes at Midway. Basically, most of these are gameplay modifiers (blocking/throwing disabled, one player starts at 30% health, fighters morph into other characters, etc.) activated by doing certain inputs on both players’ buttons in the VS screen and end up being rather inconsequential in the long run, even though they would show up in some of the later MK games as well. “Kombat Kodes” were touted as a major addition to MK3. The arcade ladder now has selectable difficulties (“Choose your destiny”), with the higher difficulty ladders having more opponents with stronger AI. There are three different stage fatalities again, and some stages also let you uppercut the opponent through the ceiling to continue the fight in another stage. Fatalities, Friendships and Babalities return, and now there is also Mercy (gives the beaten opponent a sliver of health back) and the long-rumored Animality. Every character now also has chain combos, done by entering pre-defined combo strings. The kombat is now faster-paced than it was before, thanks in part to the newly introduced run button, added to address the complaints that MK favored defensive play. It’s up to these warriors to once again defeat Shao Kahn and save what’s left of Earthrealm. Raiden can’t interfere any longer because Earth is now ruled by the Outworld gods, but he manages to protect the souls of a few chosen warriors. ![]() Outworld and Earthrealm merge, and millions of people are killed instantly while others are hunted down by Outworld’s extermination squads. Now, Shao Kahn has Shang Tsung and his shadow priests resurrect Sindel in Earthrealm, which somehow creates a loophole that allows Kahn to bypass the Mortal Kombat tournament and simply walk into Earthrealm to reclaim his queen. Understandably, Sindel was not thrilled by this arrangement and ended up taking her own life. Thousands of years ago, Shao Kahn conquered the realm of Edenia, killed King Jerrod and took Queen Sindel as his bride, raising Princess Kitana as his own daughter. Liu Kang defeated Shao Kahn in the Outworld tournament, but Kahn didn’t die and sets his 10,000-year-old contingency plan in motion. Before we get into that, though, let’s look at the storyline and the new additions to the gameplay. Mortal Kombat 3 is also considered by some fans and critics to mark the beginning of MK’s decline, which would eventually get so bad that the series would be practically dead for years and seen mainly as an amusing relic from the 90s. Mortal Kombat 3 was released to the arcades in April of 1995 and was another huge hit for Midway. However, the most anticipated Mortal Kombat product of the year was the new game. A big-budget feature film would premiere in the summer and make even more money. After the second game was a massive hit and the ports raked in the cash, MK became the hottest video game property in the world and spawned merchandise of varying quality, including toys and comic books. ![]()
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