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Mortal Kombat 11 Release Date, Trailer, And Screenshots Revealed

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NetherRealm Studios has announced Mortal Kombat 11, the latest entry in its much loved fighting series. The announcement was made during The Game Awards, where series co-creator Ed Boon appeared to introduce an awards for sports/racing game. Except, this was a planned fakeout that led to a trailer for the game, which showed Scorpion fighting Raiden; we've since gotten more details and screenshots courtesy of a Steam listing.

As you can probably guess, the trailer for Mortal Kombat 11 was typically brutal. With heads being removed from bodies and blood flowing freely. Interestingly, there was a significant amount of weapon usage during the video, and it's not the typical stuff we expect from the characters. Raiden, for example, was wielding red lightning.

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There was also multiple Scorpions. While the first one got taken out by Raiden, the second turned into a being of fire and flew threw Raiden, decimating him. It unclear what the presence of two Scorpion means yet, but it could be that Mortal Kombat 11 has some multi-universe shenanigans of some sort going.

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Most excitingly, Mortal Kombat 11 got a release date of April 23, and it's a global launch on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and--perhaps surprisingly--Nintendo Switch. NetherRealm will also be hosting a community reveal event on January 17, no doubt giving us a much longer look at the game.

The Steam page for the game offered up the screenshots embedded above. Some of these appear to be shots from the trailer, while others are not. It also notes that you'll be able to play as Shao Kahn by pre-ordering. Additionally, it teases a key feature, Custom Character Variations, which allow you to have "unprecedented control to customize the fighters and make them your own." MK11 also boasts a "new graphics engine showcasing every skull-shattering, eye-popping moment, brings you so close to the fight you can feel it. And featuring a roster of new and returning Klassic Fighters, Mortal Kombat's best in class cinematic story mode continues the epic saga over 25 years in the making."

For more announcements from the show--and there are many--check out our The Game Awards news roundup.

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I want to know the guy who made the first MK soundtrack that one who all of us love.

And make him back after firing the guetto ass dude who's in the music dpt at Netherrealm putting this awful songs in MK franchise. Like for real, somebody tell him that this is NOT Def Jam, this is fucking Mortal Kombat with asian martial artist warriors with super powers!!! Not a fucking guetto fighting game! Get ur shit right NR.

Music aside the fight was awesome and I will look foward for time travel.

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Awesome trailer. Just make sure you mute the sound and play the MK theme instead.

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Scorpion is a demon spectre. You can destroy his body but not kill kill him. That'd probably be why another Scorpion arrives on the scene.

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@zackd88: Ha yeah word up. U are correct my friend!

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@zackd88: The second Scorpion is MK2 Scorpion. Watch the trailer. At the end you'll see that new character touching a sand of time hour glass. Time twisting is official

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Awesome cinematic. Shit music. Some hardcore drum and bass or some metal music wold be muck much better choice. This hip-hop thing feels completely out of place.

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What an absolutely horrible choice of "music" in the trailer. I've never wanted to mute a trailer before this one.

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Dat awefull rap-song!

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I personally would like a full MK Vs Injustice fighting. All MK characters and the DC characters.

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@craigtl: Hey, I would be down for that. That would be pretty cool. But one thing I think both franchises could improve on is more stages/levels/battlegrounds.

I think a new MK Mythologies would be cool. But I am happy that this one seems a bit more dark/gritty. Just hope the music in the trailer isn't "A Taste of Things to Come." That pun is for the older Mortal Kombat fans.

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I'm sure this will be way better than X. So looking forward to this! Shoa Kahn is back

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@J-007: yeah bro, my thoughts exactly. I got super excited when I first heard the news, been a MK lifer since the dayis s of the original. I also was lovin the Shao Khan return as Shinnok from MKX just was dull to me. I also am looking forward to see who else will be included. Sub Zero is my fave but I also love how they add guest characters in the mix like Jason Voorhees & Leatherface and hope they also do this in MK11!! can't wait for this game to come out!!

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@Jimbowesker: Cool to know man. Mortal Kombat needs to stay mortal and X I sold out already in anticipation for Mk11. I'm going to wish and say Dante should be a guest character...already we had good guests in the saga. Shinnok to me is a good enough evil Jester type of character and his transformation was a bit epic but compare this to Injustice 2 which I'm sold to over MKX. I feel a bit tired of Scorpion and Sub zero..they need a more hyped look somehow and extraordinary movesets too. Otherwise I'm good to go on this one

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@J-007: You make some good points, and we all have our favorites and such when it comes to characters. I did really enjoy the Shinnok transformation but hated that it was never playable in any kind of form. But yeah, I'm with ya, I think MK11 is gonna be off the chain. The team keeps getting better and better at perfecting their fighting games and I think and hope that this one is gonna be the best thus far!

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@Jimbowesker: Thanks for your approval man. Yes a pity to not play as corrupted Shinnok but just maybe he can be the cherry on top in 11 as a playable character once again. It's interesting to see maybe an evil Raiden in red lightning. A new graphics engine too. I can't deny getting this one and I'm hyped it's just around the corner bud

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Bad music aside, it looked pretty good. I'll be interested in what enhancements they've made in the last few years.

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Looking forward to the game, but that was a horrible song choice. If this is the type of music that is in the game, then it will probably flop.

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@Lach0121: Lol it won't be in the game. The last few MKs have had a theme song of sorts. But none have ever been in the game

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@imajinn: Still we need to fire the dolt at Netherrealm in the music dpt like he can't be serious putting that soundtrack on a launch trailer, jesus.-

At first I though the song popped from another Tab and I was looking to close that shit, lmao!!!!

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@skylander: lmfao!! Like one of those popup ads ??? Ya it did feel like it was something played from somewhere else

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It's getting a Switch version. MK is back on Nintendo after avoiding it for two games (MK9 and MKX, hoping those one day get ported). SWEET (even though most of my MK collection is on PS2, I have Armageddon on Wii and UMK on DS)! :D

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Terrible song

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They should just take the fighting gameplay out and make the game so that you can do only the fatalties. That’s all anyone cares about in modern MK anyway.

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@mbrogz3000: Evo would disagree

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And if enough people preorder the game, Netherrealm Studios promises to never play that awful song again.

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@goldero: I will NOT pre-order to punish them for that shitty sing, after some hate mails tho

LoL

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They should bring back the joke endings.(Make them like MK 4 endings specially like the Jax ending in that game)

The serious character endings that MK X had were super boring.

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obligatory mute

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Seems their aweful taste in music is still intact. Made me cringe hard just like last time too.

All around it doesn't look impressive at the moment. I think it's just gonna be MKX with features of Injustice 2.

I'd say wait a year after release for the Komplete Edition to get your money's worth.

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@cboye18: You can tell how good its going to be from a teaser trailer? I'll wait til January 17 to see the new engine before I make any decisions.

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Oh no, it still looks like they're going for a dark and gritty MK. I pretty much hate MK X for that reason. The 30fps, super dark horror-like fatalities were so uncharacteristic for MK. MK 9 was perfect.

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@death_burnout: I miss MK when it was campy.

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Im always down for more MK. This is exciting news for me. But please bring Tag Team matches back. I miss those.

Dunno if it's suggesting a multiverse thing, or more so just the whole "versus" idea of you fighting player after player, and sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. And multiple Scorpions and Red Raiden might just imply multiple skins and cosmetic looks to characters.

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This was the best announcement at the game awards.

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Have there actually been 11 Mortal Kombats? They went from 4 to question mark to X... I didn't think the X meant 10, just some attempt to be Xtreme.

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@Thanatos2k: yes.

MK 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , Deadly Alliance , Deception , Armageddon , MK Vs DC, 2011(IX) , X and now XI.

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@Thanatos2k:

https://youtu.be/m1gBvKZkm-M

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ugh...that music was trash.

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Worldwide included: Japan and China

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I wish MK 11 were cross play with Smash Bros

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Good lord anyone sick of Boons love for Scorpion every freaken time he has to come out on top destroying someone. The first ninja was prob someone from his clan or Kenshis kid. But Scorp was the one at the end and naturally he has to win. I used to love scorpion but Boons love and pushing him up there as elite teir at times Im sick of him and hope he gets destroyed in this game

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@Archangel2222: Well at least it wasn't sub zero bashing again.

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i will get it the year after released when it's "komplete" ok

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Preorder to get SHAO KHAN for real , are they out of their minds? and that AWFULL song does not fit to the Mortal kombat at all.

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Probably the highlight of the Game awards show so far.

Can’t believe its coming out so soon.

Good to see Noob Saibot… er.. I mean Ed Boon up there.

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-FLAWLESS VICTORY NINJA APPROVED-

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