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Each character represents a different fighting style, even though it all boils down to punching, kicking, and throwing your opponent, and as you might have guessed, both Kang and Lao come fully equipped with their respective special moves from the Mortal Kombat series.

After all, what would a Mortal Kombat game be without gratuitous violence and gore? A pretty lousy one, that’s for sure.Īs you begin the game you’ll have to choose to play as either Lao or Kang, or if you’ve beaten the game, two other secret characters (I’ll give you a hint, the first character’s name rhymes with… oh what the hell – it’s Scorpion and Sub-zero). The environments are varied enough and are littered with traps, spiked floors, and many other torture devices. You’ll progress through the story by solving puzzles and defeating enemies (including close to a dozen boss fights) over many classic Mortal Kombat II locations, such as The Living Forest, The Foundry, and The Evil Monastery. Still, for those interested, Monks takes place between the end of Mortal Kombat and the end of Mortal Kombat II, and for fans of the series, it won’t be too much of a surprise to see Lui Kang and Kung Lao as the protagonists of choice.

Monks follows your typical beat-em-up storyline, with plot twists that a primary school dunce could see coming, and plenty of meaningless banter about where to go next, but that’s not what Monks is really about anyway. Midway has taken just about everything we love about the series – a strong cast of crazies, combos galore, and enough blood to coat the country three times over – and bundled it up into a neat little package for our enjoyment.īlood, guts and sexual tension aside (oh Lui and Katana, when will they ever learn?), Shaolin Monks actually sports a story, and more surprisingly, an interesting one. But with every failure comes a success (according to my mother at least), as is the case with Shaolin Monks. Of course, there was a little title known as Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, but did anyone actually play that? I suppose Mythologies’ biggest downfall was that fans knew what it could have been, and what it clearly wasn’t.

What surprises me the most about Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks is the fact that it took Midway this long to realise the potential of a Mortal Kombat-inspired scrolling beat-em-up.