AWKWARD ZOMBIE

So in anticipation of the new Mortal Kombat 9 that comes out next month, I've decided to start a thread. This isn't just for MK9 however, it's for the lore and all the crazy shenanigans MK comes up with.

So far I know MK9 will have:

-Tag Team with the possibility of player controlled tag team, thus allowing four people to fight at once.
-The Kyrpt, where you purchase skins, art, silly booty videos will return
-Among the confirmed characters are Noob Saibot, Goro, Reptile (who doesn't have a beak it's a mask) Mileena, Kitara, Kratos (PS3 only), Baraka, Kato, Ermac, Cyrax, Sector and many of the classic or fan favorites.
-No joke characters
-No babalities or animalities as far as I'm aware
-Challenge Tower! a 300 round challenge mode with a huge fight at round 300, these challenges include testing sight, strength, luck, skill
-Classic skins available from pre-orders are in the Kyrpt, which can be purchased from playing the story or Challenge Tower
-Challenge Tower also offers a Luck fight, where a large wheel spins for your preset fight, these can range from shadowy characters, rainbow blood, armless fighting to no jumping, OHKO's or an upside down screen
-Refined, freer combo system, no more dial-a-combo
-X Ray's and EX moves as well as a Special Move bar a la MvC or Street Fighter
-For the X Ray's and Fatalities a new inside generating engine has been compiled, complete with correctly breaking bones/muscle bursts
-Block button, no hold back to block move, mostly because the characters can easily reverse positions with a multitude of teleports or reversals.
-Refined Hitboxes

Seems viraly, but there it is. If you've never been a fan of MK before, this game's a good place to start. I really hope this one gets in that world fighting leauge bullshit, if only to show up all the Japanese fighters.

My team is Cyrax/Noob Saibot

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(( Links and stuff later, shitty computer is shitty))

No joke characters.
>Kratos
Wait... oh ok gimmicky is alright.

The only thing I'm hyped about in this game is Ermac.
Oh also I'm glad it's not dial-a-combo anymore, I hope cometitive play will be fun to watch.

Well to be honest, Kratos isn't that far of a throw from the MK universe.

Why is everyone's a gettin a boner for Ermac

He's cool but

c'mon

He's the only char I like in the series, along with Sub-Zero.

I'm going to try out my chances with Sub-zero or Kung Lao. Those were my 2 favorites in all the MK's for some reason :V

Noob Saibot

the orginal gangsta

Cyrax

the orginal cyborg

rockets all up in your face

suck it

Also the story this time around is meant to be more focused and a bit deeper than usual. It looks like you're going through the tales of Amageddon from the Beginning of the championship, but depending on your character you change what is canon. Like so and so doesn't die because you killed ect.

The free roam story is gone.

Oh god toasty is back. I am now pre-ordering.

Cooking with Scorpion

Is Liu Kang still dead? His bicycle kick rustled me off with how he could fly across the entire screen.

No this game's storyline is from like the first game to the Armageddon plotline, and the story mode is that you pick a character and go through MK's history, but since your character would win all his/her fights, you change the canon.

So Liu Kang can be alive, if that's how your story plays out, but yes he is in game.

List of announced:

1. Baraka
2. Cyrax
3. Ermac
4. Goro
5. Jade
6. Jax
7. Johnny Cage
8. Kano
9. Kitana
10. Kratos (Playstation 3 exclusive)
11. Kung Lao
12. Liu Kang
13. Mileena
14. Nightwolf
15. Noob Saibot
16. Reptile
17. Scorpion
18. Sektor
19. Shang Tsung
20. Shao Kahn
21. Sindel
22. Sonya Blade
23. Stryker
24. Sub-Zero

And some guys that haven't been confirmed but we've seen evidence of is Kabal, Kintaro, Quan Chi, Raiden, Sheeva and Smoke.

hnngngngngngn Smoke and Kabal yeah motherfuckers.

Stryker. :O

If PS3 gets an exclusive, shouldn't the other systems get one as well?

I was thinking that, but what xbox-exclusive character do you associate with a fighting game this brutal? Marcus Fenix?