Selling more than 10 million copies, the game was the fastest-selling game in the franchise and the ninth best-selling retail game of 2015 in United States.
However, the PC version of the game was met with mixed reception, with reviewers citing numerous technical issues (including frequent crashes and slow netcode) as problems that severely hinder the experience. Most praise was directed at the game's controls, overall gameplay, graphics, story, and characters, with some reviewers calling it the best game in the Mortal Kombat series. The console versions of Mortal Kombat X received critical acclaim upon release. The game contains several modes, such as a story mode, which takes place twenty-five years after the previous Mortal Kombat game, several 'Tower' modes, which feature dynamically changing challenges, numerous online modes, and the 'Krypt', a mode played in a first person perspective, where players explore the areas unlocking a variety of in-game items.
Like previous Mortal Kombat games, Mortal Kombat X 's gameplay consists of two players, or one player and the CPU, fighting against each other with their selected character, using a large, varied array of character-specific attacks.
High Voltage Software developed the PC version of the game, with Polish studio QLOC taking over the work on it shortly after the release of Kombat Pack 1.
NetherRealm Studios' mobile team developed a version for iOS and Android devices. It is the sequel to 2011's installment, Mortal Kombat, taking place 25 years later after the events of its predecessor. Interactive Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms is an animated feature film and sequel to Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge which shined a spotlight on the fighting tournament between the champions of Outworld and Earthrealm.Mortal Kombat X is a 2015 fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Just as a single example: In one fight of Kung Lao vs Shao Kahn, Kung Lao takes a tumble along the ground, and instead of his hat flying off him, as you’d expect it to, it just kind of folds into the ground, only to be completely straight in the next scene, which elicited an unintentional laugh out loud moment out of me.
The animation does its job well enough, with some fun fight choreography that is full of small nods and references to the game, though there are certainly some rough edges. I’m not a big fan myself, though I can see the appeal of the stylized look, especially with how well it meshes with the ultra-violence.
The character designs are far more polarizing, characterized by heavily angular faces with chins that often look just as sharp as some of the weapons they wield. The backgrounds are gorgeous and do a great job of replicating the looks of locations from the games, like the Lin Kuei Temple from MKX and Kahn’s Arena from MK2.
Visually, Battle of the Realms is also a bit hit and miss. There are some gnarly moments of over-the-top violence that any Mortal Kombat fan is sure to appreciate, and Joel McHale as Johnny Cage continues to be a perfect voice casting choice for the obnoxious Hollywood star that’s in way over his head.
Kung Lao, who is supposed to be like a brother to Liu Kang, barely exchanges a single line of dialogue with him Stryker just shows up without any explanation of how or why a normal-ass police officer found himself in a battle against supernatural monsters, and Kitana says she doesn’t have a choice but to follow Shao Kahn, but we never get to see that toxic father-daughter dynamic that leads her to want to side with the forces of Earthrealm.Īs a result, all of the character moments fall on their face, resulting in a movie that is basically just all about the action and the fanservice, and at least in that regard, it delivers. It feels like there could have been four Mortal Kombat Legends movies that each focused on a single subplot, but instead, they were all mashed together into a single movie, and as a result, every character feels flat. Then while that’s going on there’s also other completely disconnected subplots involving the Lin Kuei and the cyber initiative Kuai Liang and his desire for vengeance against Scorpion for the murder of his brother Shinnok’s scheming in netherrealm to retrieve the kamidogu, and it’s all just a lot, especially for a movie with a less than 90-minute run-time. But that invasion doesn’t last for very long because eventually, Shao Kahn proposes, you guessed it, another Mortal Kombat tournament. Battle of the Realms picks up where Scorpion’s Revenge left off: with an Outworld invasion of Earthrealm led by a very angry Shao Kahn who’s a very sore loser after Shang Tsung’s failure in the Mortal Kombat tournament.