7 little-known facts about the game Mortal Kombat?

Almost every gamer knows about the Mortal Kombat game franchise. This fighting appeared back in the 90s and became popular for a reason – development and the process of the creation of the franchise regularly provides users with wonderful facts, which continue revealing nowadays!

Mokap, Bo’ Rai Cho, and Raiden

The character called Mokap, who appeared in MK Deadly Alliance, is a motion-capture actor in the story. The employee of the company Midway, Carlos Pesina who was a motion-capture actor, was a prototype for the character! What is more, Carlos had been playing as Raiden before the third part of the game and played the role of Bo’ Rai Cho a few years later.

Carlos was respected by the management of the company due to his ability to make everything on the first try. Employees called his “One take” for this. Carlos had been working as an actor in the company until the release of MK: Armageddon, after which he became the art director.

Live actors instead of the painted heroes

Mortal Kombat is considered to be one of the first games where the developers refused the painted heroes and started using motion-capture actors. Definitely, this technique could not be missed by competitors. Fighting games are still released with similar graphics on Steam, however, no one has managed to achieve the same effect as Mortal Kombat.

Fatality emerged as a replacement for the stun mechanic

According to Ed Boon and John Tobias, stun in the middle of the fight, which was initially supposed to be, caused irritation because it seemed to be unfair. Because the player could mock while his opponent was stunned, they decided to replace stun with Fatality.

Initially, they planned to provide only the boss of the game Shang Tsung with the ability to do Fatality. It explained the fact that the boss was at the majority of locations. So he had to step down from his throne and, having finished off the lost character, take his soul. However, the developers refused the idea and decided to make all characters use the Fatality ability.

Scorpion’s voice belongs to Ed Boon

In 2008, Ed managed to enter the Guinness Book of Records for being the voice of the same character for a pretty long time - Scorpion. Boon has begun voice-covering his favorite character since 1992 and he is still doing it! However, other actors started voice-covering story dialogues in the latest games, in which the character used way more phrases, however, the legendary quotes like “Come here”, “Get over here” still belong to Ed Boon. What is more, the movie adaptation made in 1995 used Ed Boon’s original phrases.

One of the games in the franchise has the Teen rating

The fighting game Mortal Kombat stands out with its brutality, however, one of the games has the Teen rating, which suits ages 13 and older – it is MK vs DC. The developers tried to realize a successful project to prevent financial issues. As a result, the Midway Games studio faced financial ruin and the above-mentioned game was the last one made by the company.

Terminator references

The developers of the game franchise have used references to one of the iconic movie characters, Terminator, in many games many times. The references emerged in the very beginning. For example, Kano’s eye or the Fatality of Scorpion drowning in lava and raising his thumb up in MK: Shaolin Monks. With the release of the latest parts of the game, the developers have managed to add the full game character, Terminator.

Mortal Kombat: Mystification

During the release of MK: Deception, the developers of the game faced issues with the release of the fighting game in Europe. The game with such a title could lose its popularity in French due to the word “Deception” in French sounds as “frustration” or “disappointment”. As a result, the game was released as MK: Mystification in France.

Due to this, having heard the title of the game, many fans decided that it was the new game in the famous fighting franchise.