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GAMES
FEATURE
1.
As well as featuring as a stuntman
in films such as
Nightcrawler
and
Transformers: Age of Extinction
, who
was the voice of Liu Kang in
Mortal
Kombat II
?
2.
Blade Swipe, Blade Spin and
Scrape Kick are signature moves of
which character?
3.
Whose FATALITY involves
transforming into a dinosaur and
chomping your opponent in half?
4.
Phil LaMarr and Richard Epcar
both feature on the upcoming
Mortal
Kombat X
as the voices of Kotal Kahn
and Raiden, respectively. But which
other fighter title (published by Warner
Bros. Interactive Entertainment) did
the pair star in together?
5.
Which Mortal Kombat arena
(almost) shares its name with a
Marvel character played by Ryan
Reynolds?
6.
Which MK title held the first
appearance of “Babalities” – Fatalities
that turn the opponent into a baby
form of themselves?
7.
Dana Lyn Baron, listed as an ADR
performer on
The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay – Part 1
, is also the voice
of which Mortal Kombat fighter?
8.
Who is the guest fighter playable
in
Mortal Kombat X,
made famous in
Friday the 13th
?
9.
Sub-Zero has been voiced by many
an actor over the years – which one
was also the voice of the villain Vilgax
in Ben 10?
10.
Ed Boon and John Tobias are
credited as being the original creators
of the Mortal Kombat series. Playing
around with their surnames will give
you the name of which fighter?
Quiz Answers: 1.
Ho-Sung Pa
2.
Baraka
3.
Stryker
4.
Injustice: Gods Among Us
.
5.
Deadpool
6.
Mortal Kombat II
7.
Sonya Blade.
8.
Jason Voorhees.
9.
Steve Blum
10.
Noob Saibot.
series, was due to make a cameo
appearance in the film.
16
Jean-Claude Van Damme
was asked to play the role of
Johnny Cage. He refused.
17
Chris Casamassa was
originally hired as a stuntman
for the film. Producers were so
impressed with his performance he
was hired to play Scorpion.
18
A follow-up movie was
green-lit in 1996, but Paul
W.S. Anderson wisely chose to
avoid
Mortal Kombat Annihilation
in favour of helming sci-fi horror
flick
Event Horizon.
19
Steve Ritchie, who originally
came up with the name
'Mortal Kombat' was still designing
pinball games when he was asked
to voice Shao Kahn. He did on five
MK titles.
20
Mortal Kombat 4
signalled
the change from digitised
character graphics to motion-
capture.
21
Anti-video-game activist
Jack Thompson sent a letter
of complaint to Midway after
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
featured a kreate-a-fighter system
that allowed players to create a
character undeniably similar to
Thompson.
22
Mortal Kombat: Deception
was changed to
Mortal
Kombat: Mystification
in France;
Déception in French translates to
disappointment.
23
Mortal Kombat vs. DC
Universe
was the last game
developed by Midway Games
before the company filed for
bankruptcy.
24
Midway had to tone down
the violence in
MK vs. DC
Universe
to align the content with
the DC standard.
25
The PS3 version of the
Mortal Kombat
reboot in
2011, Warner's first entry in the
Mortal Kombat series following the
Midway Games acquisition, can be
played in stereoscopic 3D.