Mortal Kombat: Onslaught is acceptable to reimagine the brutal franchise into a role-playing game.

Announced by Warner Bros. Games, the upcoming "new collection" RPG is being developed and co-published by NetherRealm Studios, which is liable for astir of the mainline games successful the series. Described arsenic "the archetypal mobile-exclusive cinematic communicative acquisition for the franchise," players volition beryllium capable to physique their squad of fighters and deploy them successful "massive" real-time battles against groups of enemies. While details connected the communicative are presently unknown, the steadfast has hinted that gamers volition beryllium moving to decision "a acheronian and unsafe threat" that seeks to destruct each of the realms.

"We are pushing the boundaries of Mortal Kombat to let players to acquisition the franchise successful caller ways, portion inactive staying existent to its halfway visceral nature," said Ed Boon, Chief Creative Officer, NetherRealm Studios. "With Mortal Kombat: Onslaught, we reimagined Mortal Kombat into a strategical team-based postulation RPG with fast-paced, radical melee combat that some caller and existing fans tin enjoy."

"Mortal Kombat is simply a legendary franchise and popular civilization phenomenon, and it continues to prosecute players and beforehand the warring genre crossed aggregate platforms," said David Haddad, President, Warner Bros. Games. "Mortal Kombat: Onslaught is simply a testament to wherefore Mortal Kombat has been a apical gaming franchise for implicit 30 years, arsenic the NetherRealm squad continues to innovate and bring caller gameplay to fans."

Mortal Kombat connected the Go

Mortal Kombat is arguably 1 of the astir iconic video crippled bid of each time, starting beingness successful 1992 with a large woody of contention owed to its, for the time, incredibly convulsive mechanics. Despite the atrocious publicity, the franchise has grown exponentially, spawning a multitude of sequels, spinoffs, animated movies and bid and adjacent respective live-action films. The astir caller merchandise was Mortal Kombat 11 in 2019, which saw galore classical characters, specified arsenic Scorpion and Sub-Zero, instrumentality alongside immoderate newcomers.

While fans tin look guardant to Onslaught, it's presently chartless erstwhile the adjacent mainline introduction successful the franchise volition release. Rumors person swirled that NetherRealm Studios is actively working connected Injustice 3, different installment successful its fashionable DC Comics warring crippled series. Many insiders person since debunked these reports, stating that aboriginal improvement has already begun connected Mortal Kombat 12 which has yet to beryllium verified.

Mortal Kombat: Onslaught is slated for a 2023 merchandise and volition beryllium disposable connected mobile devices.

Source: Warner Bros. Games.