Mortal Kombat X Kombat Pack 2 trailer lets the Xenomorph, Leatherface and others show you their move

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It's a strange world we live in. Back in my day, you were lucky if you could play anyone but Ryu (this was actually long before anything that could be described as 'my day'), but now and Mortal Kombat X is packed with characters, and not even just ones from its own franchise. Following on from last year's Predator and co, the second Kombat Pack DLC from Netherealm includes the Xenomorph from Alien, Leatherface of chainsaw massacring fame, Triborg who is actually three older MK characters in one robot body and Bo’ Rai Cho, a a big drunk dude.

They want to show off their skills (and kills) in the latest trailer

I'm quite glad this pack exists. Not least because I want to watch Alien vs. Predator at Evo (but not the movie version, please no), but it also dispels NetherRealm's habit of moving on rather quickly from one of their games to the next. MK9 didn't get long in the sun before Injustice cruelly stripped it away, which in turn only got the one round of DLC before MKX popped up and took its head. Long tails are important for fighting games - there's a reason Capcom have committed to Street Fighter 5 as a single platform for a long time.

There's no release date yet, but chances are the characters will slowly pop up over the next six months or so. Who do you most want to see have a chestburster come out of them? It's Johnny Cage, isn't it?

 

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Mortal Kombat XL, Kombat Pack 2 are not coming to PC andy chalk pc gamer via venturebeat

Did you like Mortal Kombat X? (We thought it was pretty decent.) How about the cool new characters, like Jason Voohees, the Predator, or the “Klassic” Tanya and Tremor, that were released in the Kombat Pack DLC? Did you enjoy that? Well I've got some bad news for you, sunshine: The Kombat Pack 2 DLC, and the upcoming, all-inclusive Mortal Kombat XL, aren't being released for the PC.

Nether Realm Studios Mortal Kombat XL and Kombat Pack 2 will available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One only.

The tweet from earlier today was confirmed on the Test Your Might forum, where Netherrealm Community Specialist Tyler Lansdown repeated the message, word-for-word.

The obvious question is, why would Netherrealm and Warner opt to go console-only at this point? Roughly a half-million people own Mortal Kombat X on Steam, according to Steam Spy, and while that's far from mega-hit territory, it's nothing to sneeze it. It could be the not-universally-enthusiastic response to the game—68 percent positive user reviews on Steam, 5.5/10 user score (76/100 critical aggregate) on Metacritic—but again, that's far from disastrous, and I'd like to think that being “almost there” would prompt a publisher to improve a game, not drop it outright.