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Retailer leaks Mortal Kombat 11 details: New engine, better gore and an esports focus

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Mortal Kombat 11 is coming next year, and of course, we’re excited. As big fans of NetherRealm’s premier fighting game franchise, the idea of a new Mortal Kombat tickles. While I personally have no real problem with the game’s gore and gratuitous violence, I do feel like the bone-breaking executions take too long and break the flow of combat, so I hope it’s something that gets toned down a little. I doubt that’ll happen though – and a leaked bit of information suggests NetherRealm is doubling down on the gore.

Retailers often get information on games well before that information is made public. It makes sense, as they need to formulate marketing plans. they also, however, tend to be a little trigger-happy. That’s the case with GameStop Italy, who seems to have let a few details out of the bag before summarily deleting it all. The internet, however, never forgets.

Here’s what the listing says, Google translated from the original Italian:

“Mortal Kombat is back and is more fit than ever in this new and fantastic evolution of the iconic title. Now you can customize the variants of your fighters down to the smallest detail, gaining unprecedented control over the aesthetics of the characters. The new graphic engine renders in the smallest details every crushed skull and torn heart, immersing yourself completely in the action of the most bloody scenes. In addition, the new list of fighters includes unpublished characters and the Klassics of the series, protagonists of fantastic movies in the story mode of the epic saga that continues for more than 25 years”

And a handy, dandy list of new features, also badly translated:

  • New game engine, with even more blood and bloody scenes
  • New personalization system, with clothes, accessories and move sets never seen before
  • New Fatality as well as a new GoreTech system to make the performances even more brutal
  • Very strong multiplayer component, entirely oriented towards the esports: personalization systems, daily news, constantly updated rewards and improved matchmaking.

The important takeaway here is that the game will feature a new system to make the blood guts and other viscera even gorier. The other one is that MK will be tuned towards the competitive a little more, which is a good thing. Though NetherRealm has definitely made great advances in balancing and tuning, their games are still a little off when it comes to proper competitive play.

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Mortal Kombat 11 is out on April 23 2019.

Last Updated: December 12, 2018

26 Comments

  1. Kikmi

    December 12, 2018 at 09:11

    colour me jags 😀

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  2. Kervyn Cloete

    December 12, 2018 at 08:53

    Torn heart? Emo Mortal Kombat confirmed!

    Reply

  3. Captain JJ

    December 12, 2018 at 09:05

    I bet you start off with a generic character and everyone else is a DLC.

    Reply

  4. Original Heretic

    December 12, 2018 at 09:08

    MK as an esport? Oh, yeah, great. Bunch of kids out there practicing ripping out spines…

    Reply

    • Kervyn Cloete

      December 12, 2018 at 09:11

      It’s already an esport. The MK pro leagues are huge events with massive prize pools. I used to follow the scene obsessively back when I was still trying my hand at competitive MKX.

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    • Kervyn Cloete

      December 12, 2018 at 09:11

      It’s already an esport. The MK pro leagues are huge events with massive prize pools. I used to follow the scene obsessively back when I was still trying my hand at competitive MKX.

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      • Original Heretic

        December 12, 2018 at 09:25

        Ah… Well aaaaalrighty then.

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    • Captain JJ

      December 12, 2018 at 09:11

      Are you saying that video games make people violent? Do we have to go there? XD

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      • Original Heretic

        December 12, 2018 at 09:29

        Not saying that WHATsoever.
        I just personally don’t think that young kids should play games with content like that.
        Like, when I was growing up, I jammed games that, in hindsight, I shouldn’t have been playing.
        My parents didn’t know at better, they just left me to play.
        Me, I know what kind of content and images are in games. I don’t want my little boy getting freaked out by that stuff, like I used to get.

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        • Captain JJ

          December 12, 2018 at 09:32

          I know, I’m just messing with you.
          But I agree, I do recall getting quite freaked out by some stuff in games back then.

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          • Original Heretic

            December 12, 2018 at 09:34

            I know you were joking, I just wanted to nip the argument in the ass for anyone else who might read this!
            We as parents are meant to protect our kids from the horrible. I take my job as a daddy very seriously.

          • Captain JJ

            December 12, 2018 at 09:48

            That’s good to hear from an actual parent. It’s easy to say and rant about it, like I do, when you don’t have kids.

          • Original Heretic

            December 12, 2018 at 09:54

            Once I became a parent, wow, it truly changed how I thought.
            Before, I could hear or read a story about a child being lost or killed, and think, “That’s so horrible.”
            Now? Jeez, read/hear something like that and it’s like someone had stuck a needle into my heart.

          • Captain JJ

            December 12, 2018 at 09:54

            Can only imagine.

          • Gavin Mannion

            December 12, 2018 at 10:01

            I went through that, it’s stressful as hell… now my kids are knocking on independence door and I’m starting to see stories of young ladies killed while on holiday in Thailand or Europe etc… I guess the panic never stops

  5. Captain JJ

    December 12, 2018 at 09:18

    That must the most anti-climactic music in a trailer ever. Bad ass visuals, blood, gore…and hippy hoppity boppity rap music. XD

    Reply

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