To the saga of Mortal Kombat It is characterized, mainly, by having some of the most brutal combos that fighting games have ever offered. Although what we see in the final game is amazing, the truth is that other animations that could have worked even better are always discarded. The code of the Mortal Kombat 2 of the nineties, which used digitized images of the actors introduced into the game, and that has allowed discarded moves, combos and fatalities to come to light that have never been seen before till the date. Those, This leak has also served to keep an eye on the names used for certain characters in the game.. Kung Lao and Baraka, for example, were known as Hathead and Ugmo.
Mortal Kombat 2 was going to have many more movements than those seen in the final installment
The animations that the video contains they could have completely changed the way you play with certain characters, something that at this point would be unthinkable taking into account the path of some of them. However, part of those discarded moves and combos were used in later installments so that they would not be lost in oblivion and, somehow, remain alive in the saga. It is not that content was removed from Mortal Kombat 2 for being bad, but because maybe did not quite fit in with the game dynamics that could be considered at that time.
In any case, it never hurts to know that the saga sought, for one of its most mythical installments, to offer the maximum possible repertoire of combos for the available characters. Mortal Kombat continues to be, along with Street Fighter y Tekkenone of the essential pillars of fighting games that continues to increase its repertoire of titles over time. Also, hes having a second chance in the film industry thanks to Simon McQuoid.