Mortal Kombat X
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Mortal Kombat X is a fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Running on the Unreal Engine 3, it is the tenth main installment in the Mortal Kombat video game series and a sequel to the 2009 Mortal Kombat. It was released on April 14, 2015 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. NetherRealm studio's mobile team developed a version for iOS and Android devices. A version for Xbox 360 and Play Station 3 was in development but was eventually cancelled because NetherRealm could not get the last-gen versions to the quality expected of a Mortal Kombat game. High Voltage Studios 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.
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. The game contains several modes, such as a story mode, which takes place twenty 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.
An upgraded version of Mortal Kombat X, titled Mortal Kombat XL, was released on March 1, 2016 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. This upgrade to the game includes all downloadable content characters from the two released Kombat Packs, almost all bonus alternate costumes available at the time of release, improved gameplay, and improved netcode. This edition was also released for PC on October 4, 2016.
- Big Bad: Shinnok starts the game as this, leading an invasion of Earth by the forces of hell. After he is defeated by Cage and imprisoned by Raiden, his actions still drive the plot as Quan Chi seeks to freed him.
- Bittersweet Ending: Shinnok is defeated, but his corruption seems to have influenced Raiden and, if we go by Kotal Kahn's ending, turned him into something very similar to what Shao Kahn was.
- Face Heel Turn: At the end of the game, after trying to purify the Jinsei that Shinnok had corrupted, Raiden had corrupted himself, and is implied he's back to his Knight Templar version of Deception.
- Time Skip: After chapter 1, the game skips decades ahead to a time where Cage and Sonya's daughter Cassie Cage is already an young adult.
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