Mortal Kombat

***Mortal Kombat*** is a fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios with published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Midway Games. Released for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Dreamcast and GameCube on April 22, 2000 with Game Boy Advance.

The Latest version of the game included new characters above God of the Arena, featuring Ultimate Mortal Kombat, revealed on October 8, 2000.

## Story

500 years ago, the annual Shaolin Tournament, long the most prestigious fighting tournament in the world, was interrupted by the appearance of an old sorcerer and a strange four-armed creature, who entered the tournament and defeated the Great Kung Lao. This Shokan warrior was the half-human, half-dragon fighter named Goro, and he became the ultimate fighting champion for the next five hundred years.

## Gameplay and Features

Principal gameplay involves one-on-one 3D style fighting. *Mortal Kombat* uses a single two-dimensional fighting plane (at 60 frames per second), although characters are rendered in three-dimensional fashion, intended to give depth and range to portrayals of various projectiles.Through the 2000s, the developer by NetherRealm Studios and publisher by Midway Games would keep their single styled fighting moves with four attack buttons for a different array of punches and kicks and blocks.

A defining and best-known feature of the series is its finishing move system called Fatality. An original idea behind it was to give gamers a free hit at the end of the fight. The basic Fatalities are finishing moves that allow the victorious characters to end a match in a special way by murdering their defeated, defenseless opponents in a gruesome manner, usually in the predefined ways exclusive for the given character.

## Kombatants

### Playable

* Baraka
* Cyrax
* D'Vorah
* Death Heat
* Ermac
* Erron Black
* Goro
* Jax Briggs
* Johnny Cage
* Jupiter Girl
* Kano
* Kitana
* Kotal Kahn
* Kung Lao
* L.A Muerte
* Liu Kang
* Mason Kane
* Mike Lang
* Mileena
* Natsuki Oyama
* Nessor
* Quan Chi
* Raiden
* Rain
* Reiko
* Relampago Azul Jr.
* Reptile
* Ryuho Lee
* Sarah Nac
* Scorpion
* Sektor
* Shang Tsung
* Shao Kahn\*
* Shinnok\*
* Silver Mask
* Sonya Blade
* Sub-Zero
* Tanya
* Tremor
* Violet Shadow

### Unlockable

* Afro Jones
* Aqua
* Belokk\*
* Big Yokozuna
* Chameleon
* Claw X
* Ferra & Torr
* Fujin
* Ginny Sung
* Hideyoshi
* Hornbuckle
* Jade
* Jarek
* Kabal
* Kai
* Karbrac
* Khameleon
* Kintaro
* Kurtis Stryker
* Meat
* Motaro
* Nightwolf
* Nimbus Terrafaux
* No Face
* Noob Saibot
* Oniro
* Orochi Hellbeast
* Pedro
* Penance
* Quánjíshǒu
* Red Robin
* Sareena
* Ruby
* Sheeva
* Sindel
* Smoke
* Tasia
* Tong Reiba
* Undead General
* Zenkaro

## Arenas

### Starter

1. Abandoned Laboratory
2. Armory
3. Boxing Gym
4. Bridge
5. Cathedral
6. Dragon Mountain
7. El Zocalo
8. Evil Tower
9. Extreme Cage
10. Goro's Lair
11. Graveyard
12. Greek Ruins
13. Kahn's Arena
14. Kyoto Forest
15. La Arena Coliseo
16. Netherrealm
17. Osaka City
18. Oyama Temple
19. Palace Gates
20. Pit
21. Prison
22. Rooftop
23. Shang Tsung's Courtyard
24. Shang Tsung's Throne Room
25. Shao Kahn's Throne Room
26. Soul Chamber
27. Street
28. Subway
29. The Rattlesnakes's Lair
30. Warrior Shrine
31. Wastelands of Outworlds

### Unlockable

1. Balcony
2. Bank
3. Bell Tower
4. Belokk's Tower
5. Dead Pool
6. Disco Club
7. Edenian Bridge
8. Elder Gods' Arena
9. Fire Well
10. Grand Palace of Edenia
11. Hidden Portal
12. Ice Pit
13. Interpol Gym
14. Jade's Desert
15. Kahn's Kave
16. Kombat Tomb
17. Living Forest
18. Muay Thai Ring
19. Noob Saibot's Dorfen
20. Outworld Arena
21. Portal
22. Reptile's Lair
23. Russian Forest
24. Shaolin Temple
25. Scislac Busorez
26. Sindel's Throne Room
27. Sumo Arena
28. Tomb
29. Wind World