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Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance Redefines Franchise

The first Mortal Kombat game hit arcades in 1992, but a majority of the savvier enhancements that have continued to make the series relevant didn't debut until ten years later, with Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance.

Deadly Alliance, the fifth game in the series, was the first console-only version of Mortal Kombat, a sign of the declining arcade industry in the U.S. The game appeared on all three major sixth-gen consoles – Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube, along with the GameBoy Advance.

One of the key improvements in Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance was the addition of character-specific fighting styles. In earlier games, every fighter used the same generic style with the exception of their special moves, but beginning with MK5 (as Deadly Alliance is often abbreviated) each player had two distinct hand-to-hand styles to choose from, along with a weapon-based style (some characters like Blaze have three hand-to-hand styles instead of a weapon style).

Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance also introduces features like the Krypt (an area where players can purchase unlockable items) and a Konquest mode (a single-player, storyline-driven mode), and the fan favorite Test Your Sight minigame, a parody of the Test Your Might game from the first Mortal Kombat. All of these features have been gameplay elements in subsequent versions of the game. In addition, the polygon character models introduced in Mortal Kombat 4 underwent a vast overhaul that would reflect the new visual style of the series as it progressed.

From a story perspective, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance is notworthy because of the death of Liu Kang and the titular deadly alliance between series villains Shang Tsung and Quan Chi. The latter is the impetus for the events of the following Mortal Kombat games, Mortal Kombat Deception and Mortal Kombat Armageddon, and evolves the storyline of the game past the simple 'fighting tournament' structure the early games in the series were plotted around.

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