Mortal Kombat 1's new single player mode has long been the best in the series.
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| Invasion mode in Mortal Kombat 1 is the perfect evolution of Towers and Vaults, |
Rarely does a franchise as old as Mortal Kombat get a chance to make a name for itself. However, the 2011 reboot brought a twist that reimagined Mortal Kombat through a story-driven single-player campaign. Now, Mortal Kombat 1 takes that idea a step further with an exciting new mode that makes the most of The Living Towers and Krypts. Giving players something to do outside of online combat made
ideal for a more casual, non-competitive audience, and Mortal Kombat's popularity skyrocketed. It wasn't perfect and had a bad habit of forcing the characters to fight just for fun, but a new focus was just what the series needed to stand out from the crowd.
While these campaigns were important to the Mortal Kombat relaunch, they represent only a small portion of Mortal Kombat's single-player content. Since the 3D era, Mortal Kombat games have offered players many different things to do outside of combat, from the Test Your Might minigames and explorable rooms like the Vault to crazier examples like Motor Kombat and Chess. .Fight.
NetherRealm might have surpassed those stranger needs lately, but I've always been excited to see what Mortal Kombat 1 would bring. It turns out that "putting on the table" is an apt metaphor for a new single-player mode. Invasion mode feels like a Mortal Kombat board game. One with blood, guts, and Johnny Cage's storytelling, making it infinitely better than actual board games.
At first I didn't like the idea of an invasion at all. My brain sinks when it comes to board games and I was hoping for something odd like Puzzle Kombat. When I found out he wasn't there, I was sad. Fortunately, after spending some time with him at Gamescom, I was impressed by how he managed to combine the best elements of two of Mortal Kombat's most important modes: The Living Towers (or Towers of Time if you're using MK11 inexplicably preferring MKX) . and the crypt.
My enjoyment of Invasion was enhanced by the fact that it's not particularly inspired by board games. The view of the diorama from above and the locations on the map that you can move between seem to be one, but in reality you only move between squares on the game board to fight enemies, collect items and spells that you can use (which in I'm actually only (special moves you can apply to your character) and explore mini versions of iconic Mortal Kombat locations.
The a part of the mode that I performed came about in a warped model of Johnny Cage's mansion (as a minimum I do not suppose he has a randomly located cinema in his house...) which was overrun by demons and darkspawn. So normal Hollywood managers?
Invasions features a surprising amount of dialogue, with Johnny popping in between fights to explain the mechanics and generally joke about what's going on. This has helped keep the invasion map interesting and I hope it will continue to be interesting in later dungeons with different characters like Hanzo Hazashi in the next season.
That's right, invasions will be seasonal and NetherRealm promises a new unique themed board that will offer new challenges and unlocks every six weeks. This takes the best of Towers of Time and its replay value, and introduces a mode that so far hasn't made me tear my hair out with repetitive combat and cheap objectives.
Invasions also takes the best of the Vault, its unlockable perks, and offers tons of unique gear, color schemes, and skins for characters of all levels to earn. Even the best version of the Vault in Mortal Kombat 11 was mostly about roaming the map and solving simple puzzles, but Invasion lets you do what Mortal Kombat does best: fight and get rewarded for it.
So far it looks like Invasions will take the best of those two modes and turn them into something new and exciting that will be supported for quite a while. I hope they don't turn into cheap and boring battles like Towers of Time, but the one I played felt fair and fun, albeit with some modifiers that set it apart from regular battles. It won't be the Puzzle Kombat mode or the Shaolin Monks mode I've been praying for, but Invasion is shaping up to be one of Mortal Kombat's best sub-modes, and it's a hell of a sight to watch as it does it simply revolves around third place. Time.
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