Now that Mortal Kombat 12 has been announced, here’s what the game needs to do to keep up with the competition.
It’s been almost four years, but Mortal Kombat 12 has been confirmed to be coming later in 2023. It’s a truly packed year for some of the best fighting game franchises around as Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 are also on the way sooner rather than later. This is how the upcoming NetherRealm title can keep up with the big dogs.
While Mortal Kombat 12 was announced in the worst way possible, the NetherRealm fighting game isn’t too far off. It’s been just shy of four years since Mortal Kombat 11. Which, while visually stunning, was mechanically a departure from what made the previous entry, Mortal Kombat X so enjoyable to play.
It all comes down to the speed of the game. Mortal Kombat 11 is more deliberately paced than its 2011 and 2015 predecessors. While the framerate stays at a rock solid 60fps on Xbox Series X and PS5, the character moves more slowly than in the older games. The thing I missed the most was the ability to run – either with a dedicated button or by dashing several times in a row. It made closing the distance on your enemy and chasing up combos okay differently than Mortal Kombat X.
In my hundreds of hours with Mortal Kombat 11 across not only PS5 but also Nintendo Switch and PC, zoning became the biggest issue for me because you couldn’t apply the same rush-down tactics in the game as you could its predecessors.
