7 New Details From the Mortal Kombat 1 Gameplay Trailer

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NetherRealm Studios shared the first gameplay trailer for Mortal Kombat 1, a new game in the famed fighting game series that will reset the timeline (again). While all your favorite characters like Scorpion and Sub-Zero are set to return, the new timeline means there’s a lot we still don’t know about these familiar faces.

On the gameplay front, Mortal Kombat 1 is shaking things up with its biggest new mechanic yet: Kameos, which introduces a tag system to Mortal Kombat for the first time ever. With that in mind, we poured over the new trailer to see what new secrets we could glean from the gameplay trailer.

The big new gameplay reveal in the new trailer was Kameo, a new system where players pick a second character to assist them in Kombat. Similar to games like Marvel vs. Capcom, players can summon their Kameo partners using a button press to do a quick attack, and then jump back off-screen. What’s unique about the system seems to be that there are a number of different commands you can issue to your Kameo partner, depending on the input used. We’ve seen Kameos extend combos, aid with throws, used as a breaker to get their partner out of a combo, and even participate in what appear to be MK1’s new X-Ray/Fatal Blow attacks.

While we don’t know the full roster just yet, it seems like NetherRealm Studios is being very deliberate with its Kameo characters. Instead of just letting you choose anyone on the main roster to be your tag partner, there will be an entire separate roster of Kameos, similar to how assist-only characters worked in Marvel vs Capcom 1. So far, it seems like only pre-reset characters from past Mortal Kombat games are in the roster such as Mortal Kombat 1 Sonya, Mortal Kombat 1 Kano, Mortal Kombat 2 Jax,