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Seven martial artists from Earth must battle in sorcerer Shang Tsung's super secret tournament.Seven martial artists from Earth must battle in sorcerer Shang Tsung's super secret tournament.Seven martial artists from Earth must battle in sorcerer Shang Tsung's super secret tournament.
Ho-Sung Pak
- Liu Kang
- (as Ho Sung Pak)
- …
Kyle Wyatt
- Mob Leader
- (voice)
Peg Burr
- Sonya Blade
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
John Vogel
- Masked Guard
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to Ed Boon, the main characters are all caricatures of some of their favorite characters from martial arts and sci-fi movies:
- Kano, with his infra-red eye, is based on Arnold Schwarzenegger's make-up in The Terminator (1984).
- Liu Kang is, obviously, the likeness of Bruce Lee.
- Johnny Cage is based on Jean-Claude Van Damme.
- Raiden, the electric God of thunder, is based on a lightening-wielding character from Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
- Sonya was loosely based on martial arts star Cynthia Rothrock.
- The Sorcerer Shang Tsung, is based on Lo-Pan, the primary antagonist from Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
- Reptile, Scorpion, and Sub-Zero, the ninjas, are based on the American ninjas from Enter the Ninja (1981), American Ninja (1985) or Ninja Gaiden (1988).
- GoofsWhen you select Sonya Blade for the "Test Your Might" stage for the Sega Genesis, her grunt is a man's grunt.
- Alternate versionsThe character name "Raiden" was changed to "Rayden" in the home versions due to legal troubles Midway was having; the spelling of the name "Raiden" had already been used in another game.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Babadook (2014)
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Short-lived über-violence
This was one of the few games that gave the then-very-popular Street Fighter II video game some competition, and it tried to better that classic by not only including real digitised martial arts fighters, but by putting in some really gory bits.
Just punching someone's head in repeatedly causes liquid crimson to spurt from their face in ridiculously high amounts, and when you had one two bouts out of three against your opponent you had the option (if you knew how) to perform a fatality that would actually kill your opponent in some rather horrible way.
As usual with this kind of game, every single character has a special move (the best ones were Scorpion's harpoon and Sub-Zero's freezing move that froze his opponent rigid for a short time, leaving him/her open to an attack); otherwise, all characters had much the same set of punches and kicks.
While the graphic violence (which probably started the video game rating system) is amusing for a little while, it hides a less-euphoric truth; there's not really much to all of this, and once you've seen the fatalities a few times it's doubtful you'll bother much with them (or even the game) anymore.
Just punching someone's head in repeatedly causes liquid crimson to spurt from their face in ridiculously high amounts, and when you had one two bouts out of three against your opponent you had the option (if you knew how) to perform a fatality that would actually kill your opponent in some rather horrible way.
As usual with this kind of game, every single character has a special move (the best ones were Scorpion's harpoon and Sub-Zero's freezing move that froze his opponent rigid for a short time, leaving him/her open to an attack); otherwise, all characters had much the same set of punches and kicks.
While the graphic violence (which probably started the video game rating system) is amusing for a little while, it hides a less-euphoric truth; there's not really much to all of this, and once you've seen the fatalities a few times it's doubtful you'll bother much with them (or even the game) anymore.
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- Antzy88
- May 26, 2001
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