In that game, Raiden altered the doomed timeline, which had ripple effects throughout the MK universe.
Mortal Kombat 11 is the resolution of the ongoing story threads stemming out from 2011’s Mortal Kombat, aka Mortal Kombat 9, which rebooted the franchise. Though it’s weighed down by a stifling stack of feature creep and currencies, the core of Mortal Kombat is thriving in its eleventh installment. It might be one of the best onboarding platforms for fighting game newcomers. Combat is punchy, responsive, and engaging. It’s nostalgic, pulpy, and mercifully self-aware.