Mortal Kombat 9 Fans Celebrate 12-Year Anniversary
gameranx.comLet’s give you a bit of a history lesson. When Mortal Kombat first came out, it was one of the biggest things in the arcades. Then it came to consoles and became just as big a hit there. It was one of the best fighting game franchises for a time. However, after a while, things got bloated. With terrible sequels, bad spinoffs, and lukewarm crossovers, the game wasn’t the same brutally fun title as it was before. There needed to be a change. There needed to be a reset. There needed to be a reboot. That reboot was Mortal Kombat 9.
In fact, officially, it wasn’t even called Mortal Kombat 9. They dropped the number so that gamers, young and old, would see it as a “fresh start.” But it was the 9th mainline title in the franchise. Furthermore, it was a “reboot” because Shao Khan had finally won in the game’s plot. He had overcome all Kombatants and obtained the power of Armageddon. So the only way to stop him was for Raiden to reverse time and start everything over from scratch, hoping that Shao Khan wouldn’t win.
While some may feel this was a “cop-out,” as they were creating a new timeline, that’s honestly what the series needed. It needed that fresh start so that fans could jump in fresh and be excited about where things went. 12 years later, the game is hailed as one of the best in the entire franchise, and Ed Boon himself was more than happy to talk about the game’s anniversary:
Our baby Mortal Kombat 9 (aka MK 2011) is 12 years old today. Almost a teenager!
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