Mortal Kombat X DLC Release Date, Pack 2 Characters, and Game Reviews

Dec 19, 2015 06:57 PM EST

Mortal Kombat X has released a number DLCs since its release, and now NetherRealm Studios has announced that Mortal Kombat X will have another Kombat Pack for next year, the Kombat Pack 2, which is loaded with new characters.

Here is the latest update about the release date of Mortal Kombat X DLC.

Recently, the creative director of NetherRealm Studios Ed Boon teased fighting-game fans about the contents of upcoming Mortal Kombat DLC. The creative director is also a Twitter hype master or the Gaming hype master because of his posts that make fans guess about the content of DLCs. Mortal Kombat X has a number of upcoming DLCs to launch.

First, there is the Story Pack, then the Kombat Pack 2, then the Terminator DLC, then the Jurassic DLC, and many more.

Slash Gear details the new in-game characters of Kombat. The Pack 2 characters are Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Xenomorph from Alien. Moreover, the game will also feature Bo Rai Cho, a classic Mortal Kombat character, and Tri-Borg, a new "Kombatant" and a combination of Sektor, Cyrax and Robot Smoke.

The characters in Kombat Pack 2 was unveiled in the recent Dec. 3 Games Awards.

Check out the trailer below:


The released character-preview from NetherRealm shows what gamers can expect from the upcoming DLC. One of the interesting things in the trailer is the appearance of Xenomorph's fatality, a chest buster.

Players can own the Kombat Pack 2 DLC at the price of $30, and it will be released on 2016.

Meanwhile, Latinos Post reported that some fans are upset for the set of characters in the upcoming DLC. Two characters did not receive warm greetings from Kombat fans. Leatherface from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and Xenomorph from "Alien" had poor scores in a poll published in Mortal Kombat Online.

When the website asked about who is the best character for the game, 50 percent of fans voted Bo Rai Cho, while 37.5 percent supported Tri-Borg. Leatherface only got 4.8 percent and Xenomorph pulled 7.6 percent support.

In a gaming forum in Reddit, it shows fans are disinterest in Leatherface as a new Kombat character and he was not the character that fans asked for. The forum lets fans air out their opinions and have a discussion within the gaming community.

Nevertheless, the game scored 8.4 out of 10 in a review from IGN. The website said Mortal Kombat X offers a respectable 24 fighters, and a whopping one third of those are honest-to-goodness new characters. Moreover, combat is the king in the game that makes it more exciting for fighting-game fans.