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Mortal Kombat
NetherRealm's long-running fighting series — from arcade shock in 1992 to the most cinematic story modes in the fighting genre.
Mortal Kombat is the fighting game franchise that refuses to be anything other than itself. Launched in 1992 as a deliberately brutal counter-programming move against Street Fighter II, it became the series that forced the ESRB into existence — and then, improbably, matured into one of the most consistently produced fighting games of the modern era.
NetherRealm's reboot arc (MK9 through MK1) has done something no other fighting series has really managed: it made the story mode a genuine reason to buy the game. Each entry delivers a cinematic campaign that would stand up as a single-player action game on its own terms, with deep rosters and rollback netcode supporting the competitive side.
The hub covers the arcade-era classics, the 3D experimental years, the NetherRealm reboot, and the current MK1 timeline reset.
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