It’s five chapters and around three hours, about half the length of Mortal Kombat 11 proper. If Shang Tsung wants to interrupt, let him.Īnd it pays off. What I love most about Mortal Kombat is it has the momentum of a dimestore thriller, a beach read full of superheroes beating the spines out of each other.

Then again, Mortal Kombat loves contrived. Having Shang Tsung appear right after and stop Liu Kang and Raiden in their moment of triumph seemed contrived.

But an expansion to the campaign? Who would even buy that? And if this were most any other fighting game, the answer would be “Nobody.” Nobody makes story-centric DLC for fighting games.

When NetherRealm announced Aftermath-well, first of all I was stunned.