Animation’s good, too, with characters fighting with their signature styles, moves, and poses. Each character’s been given a bit of a visual overhaul, however the Shaolin monks’s costumes are a bit more detailed (though Liu Kang’s still sporting the mullet!), Sonya Blade now wears a tight tank top and low-rise camo pants with a very visible thong, and the ninjas (Sub-Zero, Reptile, and Scorpion) all look very different from one another, rather than just being pallette swaps. Plus, many events in MKII are now explained for example, how Sonya and Kano ended up chains in Outworld.Īll of your favorite MK and MKII fighters are back in MK:SM, as well they should be. While a few liberties were taken with character designs and such (which I’ll discuss in the Graphics section below), this is classic MK at its finest.
MORTAL KOMBAT SHAOLIN MONKS GORO SERIES
While the series has had its ups and downs, any MK fan would agree that the first two are absolute classics, and many would argue that they were the best in the series, period.
Tying in the storyline from the first two MK games was the smartest move the developers made for Shaolin Monks. Now Liu Kang and Kung Lao will fight their way to the Outworld to discover Shang’s secrets, and meet some new foes in the process… Falling down in Goro’s Lair, the real game begins. Everyone manages to make it out, except for Liu Kang and Kung Lao, who are trapped when the floor starts to crumble. Raiden teleports in (wondering where he was, were you?), and tells everyone that they must escape. The group of fighters eventually dispatch their foes, but all is not well in typical villain fashion, Shang’s fortress now starts to crumble. While this is going on, some of Baraka’s mutant troops arrive to subdue the fighters, but one of Shang’s guards reveals himself to be Kung Lao in disguise. The four-armed monster dishes out the punishment, and Shang creates a portal to Outworld which he uses to escape. His mystical powers nonwithstanding, Shang is unable to defeat Liu Kang, and instead summons Goro to deal with the fighters. Until, of course, Liu Kang challenges the old man to battle, and faster than you can say “doppelganger,” Shang enters the fray. (If you noticed that I left a name out there, don’t worry, you’ll see why in a moment.) In a lengthy cutscene, we see all of our fighters beating on each other using various signature moves as the decrepit Shang looks on. Our tale begins at the very end of the original Mortal Kombat, where Liu Kang, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Kano, Reptile, and Sonya Blade are all fighting in Shang Tsung’s martial arts tournament. Does this 3D beat-’em-up surpass its predecessors? Read on and find out! Perhaps the third time’s the charm? Spinning out of Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II, we’ve got Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, starring Liu Kang and Kung Lao. The Mortal Kombat franchise has had two spinoffs in the past…and they both sucked.
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