Big news in the world of Mortal Kombat 11: the gory fighting game is getting a story expansion – a first for a NetherRealm title – and three new playable characters, one of which is RoboCop.
Yes, RoboCop. From the movies. Complete with Peter Weller’s voice and likeness. In a preview call with Eurogamer this week, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon called RoboCop’s addition to the game “kind of like the bookend to the Terminator with the 80s action movie stars”.
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First up, the story expansion. It’s called Aftermath, and it’s due out 26th May digitally for all versions of the game, including Nintendo Switch and Stadia.
Aftermatch picks up right after the end of Mortal Kombat 11, where Fire God Lui Kang has destroyed time-bending antagonist Kronika and is about to architect a new history. But at the last second sorcerer Shang Tsung, again played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, turns up with Fujin and Nightwolf to claim their actions will “doom us all”. In killing Kronika, Lui Kang destroyed her crown. But without her crown he can’t restart history. What follows is an unlikely alliance between Shang Tsung and the good guys as they head into the past to steal the crown from the sorcerer’s island before the hourglass shatters.