Mortal Kombat 3 - In Development

In Early Stage Of Development

Below are three pictures of Mortal Kombat 3, showing the game in one of the earlier stages of its development. The first one shows an early version of the character select screen, that still uses an old Mortal Kombat 1 and Mortal Kombat II sprites. The second and the third picture show a battle between Sindel and Jax. But the "Round 1" sprite is the one from the original Mortal Kombat. The "Fight" sprite has never been seen in previous game. Both were later replaced.

Motaro

Motaro was tossed in as somewhat of a last-minute addition to MK3? There were plans to create a fighter with two big hammers as sub-boss, but this was scrapped. The hammer was given to Shao Kahn, and the Centaur was created to serve as sub-boss.

Johnny Cage

In advertisements for MK3, Johnny Cage was killed by Motaro? Possibly Cage's death was directly related to Daniel Pesina's termination from Midway.

Cyrax and Sektor

During the development process of MK3 Sektor's and Cyrax' names were 'ketchup' and 'mustard'

The design of the cyberninjas was inspired by the alien from the movie "Predator"?

Cyrax was almost going to be Scorpion's cyberform?

The Story Of Stryker

Originally, the character Kurtis Stryker was supposed to appear in MK1 at Sonya's place, but he was scrapped early in the development process when beta tests revealed player's interests on a female character (Sonya replaced him). Later, in MK2 Kurtis Stryker made it almost to the final game, but had his name changed at the last time to... Jax. Finally on MK3 a completely new character named Stryker made its appearance.

Sandman - Kabal

Kabal's working name was Sandman. The original idea behind this character was to give him two buzzsaws instead of the tigerhooks. Later this character has been updated and Kabal was born.

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