franchise with
Deadly Alliance,
with feverish anticipation. They were greeted with an opening scene of Liu Kang, the franchise’s hero, training at the Wu Shi Academy. The game’s narrator reveals that Quan Chi, one of the primary antagonists of
MK4, has escaped from his prison. We cut back to Liu Kang fighting off a disguised Shang Tsung just as Quan Chi pulls off a sneak attack. Shang Tsung snaps Liu Kang’s neck and steals the soul from his body.
Liu Kang’s death gave
Deadly Alliance a clean slate and a new narrative twist to freshen up a franchise that was beginning to grow stale. After middling reviews for