Mortal Kombat 1's Invasions Needed More Time

Mortal Kombat is a franchise with mass appeal, so much so that it is hard to truly comprehend its size when next to Street Fighter and Tekken. The gaming audiences likely heard of all three across the over twenty years of history they all have. Still, among nongamers, at least until recently, if you asked them to name an iconic fighting game franchise, it would be Mortal Kombat.

We want to explore what could, in the coming years, turn out to be Mortal Kombat 1’s best single-player feature or a high-maintenance mode that is slowly taken out due to its lack of polish.

On paper, Mortal Kombat 1’s invasion mode is an interesting idea to deliver single-player content for a game that will likely be supported for a very long time.