Mortal Kombat 1 has debuted its first post-launch character Omni-Man from the Robert Kirkman comedian guide Invincible. NetherRealm Studios dropped the gameplay trailer throughout the New York Comic Con 2023 occasion, revealing a set of brutal strikes that had been pulled straight from the eponymous animated sequence adaptation on Amazon Prime Video. The villainous character might be out there as a standalone fighter in November, accessible to those that purchased the Premium Edition of the sport or the Kombat Pack DLC individually. Actor J.Okay. Simmons can also be reprising his position and voicing Omni-Man for Mortal Kombat 1.
While the Mortal Kombat sequence is understood for main crossovers, this time, NetherRealm Studios is utilizing multiversal shenanigans to elucidate the brand new comedian guide characters being included within the DLC. Omni-Man appears to have slipped into this new timeline cast by the Fire God Liu Kang and thus, we see the 2 squaring off within the gameplay trailer. Despite his smug manner and sluggish tempo, Omni-Man shortly finds his footing by unimaginable energy, managing to simply toss round opponents utilizing one hand and following it up with a brutal Fatality, the place he pins them down and repeatedly punches faces, leading to a massacre — earlier than slamming down and cracking open their skulls. There’s additionally one the place he squeezes Liu Kang’s head till his eyeballs come out in gory vogue.
Revealing his plans to type the Viltrum Empire — the alien planet he is from — he drags Scorpion onto a subway line. If you’ve got seen Invincible, you already know what occurs subsequent — Omni-Man makes use of his opponent’s physique as a protect towards an incoming prepare, as its iron bars and torn steel proceed slicing chunks off from their physique, virtually like a grater. Through all of this, Omni-Man’s violent facade by no means comes off, making this seem to be a trustworthy recreation. The Mortal Kombat 1 gameplay trailer additionally reveals Tremor, a ninja honing Earth elemental powers, serving as a Kameo (help) fighter for Omni-Man. He may be seen turning his arms into robust boulders and smashing enemies, or at instances, rising from beneath the Earth’s floor to catch them off guard.
As talked about earlier than, Omni-Man is included as a part of Mortal Kombat 1’s DLC add-on pack, which guarantees to convey a bunch of different fighters, as properly. Following Omni-Man and Tremor’s (Kameo) introduction in November, NetherRealm confirmed that we are able to count on the necromancy knowledgeable Quan Chi and DC Comics’ Peacemaker in Winter 2023/2024, the telekinetic Ermac and the villainous Homelander from The Boys in Spring 2024, and Scorpion’s pupil Takeda Takahashi within the American Summer of 2024. Some new Kameo fighters are additionally anticipated, albeit there isn’t any launch window for them but. Furthermore, Prime Video additionally dropped a trailer for Invincible season 2, as lead Mark Grayson/ Invincible (Steven Yeun) struggles to rebuild his life out of concern that he would possibly change into as vicious as his father Omni-Man was.
Mortal Kombat 1 is out now on PC, PS5, Xbox Series S/X, and Nintendo Switch.
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