Liu Kang’s death gave Deadly Alliance a clean slate and a new narrative twist to freshen up a franchise that was beginning to grow stale. Shang Tsung snaps Liu Kang’s neck and steals the soul from his body. We cut back to Liu Kang fighting off a disguised Shang Tsung just as Quan Chi pulls off a sneak attack. The game’s narrator reveals that Quan Chi, one of the primary antagonists of MK4, has escaped from his prison. They were greeted with an opening scene of Liu Kang, the franchise’s hero, training at the Wu Shi Academy.
It’s 2002, and after a rocky transition from 2D to 3D for the Mortal Kombat franchise with Mortal Kombat 4, players booted up the newest installment, Deadly Alliance, with feverish anticipation.
