Straight out of Cimmeria, Conan the Barbarian yawps his method into Mortal Kombat 1 later this month as a part of the continuing Khaos Reigns enlargement.
Conan’s look in Mortal Kombat 1 relies off the 1982 film of the identical identify starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. And whereas Arnold lent his likeness to the fighter, voice actor Chris Cox — who additionally portrayed the Terminator in Mortal Kombat 11 — does an impeccable job recreating the governator’s iconic Austrian accent.
The swordplay on show in Conan’s reveal is surprisingly fluid for a Mortal Kombat sport, using a few of the greatest animation work of the franchise’s fashionable period. Maintain an eye fixed out for quite a lot of Easter eggs as effectively, together with Conan preventing alongside a crimson Sonya and an Animality that turns him right into a Cimmerian bull, the identical animal Conan claims to have strangled as a baby in early tales by creator Robert E. Howard.
Conan will likely be accessible on Jan. 21 as a part of an early entry interval for many who bought the Khaos Reigns enlargement in full and on Jan. 28 for everybody else. He’s the fifth visitor character to hitch the Mortal Kombat 1 roster after Invincible’s Omni-Man, DC Comics’ Peacemaker, The Boys’ Homelander, and Scream’s Ghostface. Terminator 2’s T-1000 is deliberate to spherical out the sport’s playable roster someday sooner or later.