Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero

Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero

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Long before Mortal Kombat built cinematic story modes into its fighting games, it tried something far riskier: pull Sub-Zero out of the tournament and give him a side-scrolling adventure of his own. Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero was the first game in the series that wasn't a straight fighter, a 1997 prequel starring Bi-Han, the original Sub-Zero, set years before the events of the first Mortal Kombat.

The story is where it matters most to series fans. The sorcerer Quan Chi, making his first appearance here, hires Sub-Zero to steal a map from a Shaolin temple, a job that ends with Scorpion's death at Bi-Han's hands. The hunt for an amulet then leads to the Temple of Elements in Nepal and its Wind, Earth, Water and Fire gods (the last of whom cannot be frozen), on to the Netherealm and the Prison of Souls, and finally to Shinnok's fortress, where the assassins Kia, Jataaka and Sareena stand in the way. It even closes by setting up Shang Tsung's invitation to the tournament, stitching itself directly into the larger timeline.

Mechanically it keeps the arcade fighters' feel, with four attack buttons, block, run and familiar special-move inputs, then adds a turn button, an action button for items, an inventory, and experience earned from combos that strengthens Sub-Zero and unlocks special moves powered by an ice meter. Lives are limited and progress is saved by password. It is unapologetically hard, with stiff controls and punishing level design, and critics were rough on it at the time. Approach it as a demanding, very late-'90s experiment rather than a polished platformer and its odd charm comes through.

The Nintendo 64 version, handled by Avalanche Software and released that December, drops the PlayStation's full-motion video cutscenes, so the cartridge is one for the N64 Mortal Kombat collection rather than the movie scenes. What it does hold is the complete Bi-Han story: the origin of the Sub-Zero who would later return as Noob Saibot, the debut of Quan Chi, and Midway's first attempt to turn Mortal Kombat lore into something you play through rather than read on an ending screen.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1997
Publisher
Midway Games
Developer
Avalanche Software
Players
Single player
About the game

Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero is a story-driven fighting game that casts you in the shoes of Sub-Zero, and chronicles a series of events that occurred prior to Mortal Kombat 1. It is the first Mortal Kombat game to feature side-scrolling gameplay. Gameplay wise the game takes the Mortal Kombat familiar 2D fighting environment and turns it into a hybrid fighter/platformer game, where you must travel trough hazardous levels running and jumping around as well as fighting your way against both digitized and polygonal enemies. Sub-Zero's interface is the same as in every MK game, with the addition of a "use" and "turn around" buttons and additions such as an inventory, and a slight RPG twist in which you get exp. for defeating opponents, which translates into new techniques and moves to execute in the game.

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