Mortal Kombat 1‘s alternate search for Johnny Cage is actor Jean-Claude Van Damme, and collection co-creator Ed Boon confirmed the character in motion in an episode of Sizzling Ones.
Mortal Kombat 1 will function quite a lot of well-known faces, like John Cena as Peacemaker, Antony Starr as Homelander and J. Ok. Simmons as Omni-Man. This week, too, Megan Fox was introduced to be portraying Nitara, a personality who had not been seen within the collection for nearly 20 years.
Nonetheless, Boon defined that the crossover between Mortal Kombat and the Belgian martial artist and actor was a really particular second for the unique builders.
Earlier than Mortal Kombat grew to become the sensational success that took the world by storm, the intention was to develop a Van Damme online game. “We really needed to see the phrases ‘Van Damme’. Bloodsport was massive, and so was Common Soldier, I feel,” Boon mentioned.
“So we known as his individuals, and we have been like ‘we wish to make a sport based mostly on Van Damme’, and I don’t know if he declined or simply by no means received to him or one thing like that.
“However that is, you recognize, a few 20-something-year-old youngsters who needed make a online game – I might see how Van Damme would go ‘no, we’re not doing this,’” the co-creator admitted.
“So we tried quite a lot of instances, going forwards and backwards with him. This time, we hit the lottery, and we received him. We even have his voice and he’s going to be the Johnny Cage character, and it’s absolutely the full circle second that we had,” Boon concluded.
As proven within the episode, Van Damme appears like he has walked out of the Nineties and into Mortal Kombat 1, exhibiting a youthful model of the actor impressed by the movies that Boon referred to.
The Van Damme pores and skin for Johnny Cage is unlocked for gamers in the event that they buy the Premium version of Mortal Kombat 1. This additionally consists of Shang Tsung, six playable characters, 5 Kameo characters, every week’s value of early entry to those downloadable content material characters and 1,250 Dragon Krystals.
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