A warrior who received training from the Shaolin's ally, Master Bo' Rai Cho. The Shaolin had chosen their representative for the tournament: Liu Kang. The 10th tournament had arrived and Earthrealm was on the brink of ultimate defeat at the hands of Outworld. When Sub-Zero made his way to the Temple of Elements, many Shaolin were bested by the assassin protecting the sacred Amulet of Shinnok. When the Lin Kuei warrior Sub-Zero was asked to retrieve the Map of Elements from the Shaolin Temple, many Shaolin Monks had been defeated or killed by the Lin Kuei assassin trying to protect the map. For the remainder of the 8 remaining tournaments Goro had defeated all of Earthrealm's champions and Outworld was on the brink of victory. Eventually, the Shokan Prince, Goro, defeated and killed the Great Kung Lao to win the second tournament for Outworld. But when the second tournament began, turmoil struck for Earthrealm when the evil sorcerer, Shang Tsung had stolen control of the tournament for his master, Shao Kahn. When the first tournament begun, the Great Kung Lao had defeated all opposition to win the first tournament for Earthrealm. When Shao Kahn set his sights on conquering Earthrealm, the Shaolin Monks and Raiden formed a group known as the White Lotus Society to find the strongest warriors to participate in the Mortal Kombat tournament. Many centuries ago, the Order of Light founded the Shaolin Monks as an initiative to protect Earthrealm from the forces of evil. They are a common enemy in Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero and they use a variety of weapons. They were attacked by Baraka and the Tarkata in MKII and a lot of them, were killed by Zombie Liu Kang, the enforcer of a corrupted Raiden in MKD. The Shaolin Monks have the Wu Shi Academy and Shaolin Temple as their training grounds.
And it's not to do with one-on-one sparring, instead it's one character receiving instructions from Rayden to take out the seemingly endless army of monsters.
Here you have only two characters to choose from, as opposed to the veritable array of characters in the last two entries. Fans of the arcade style of MK will be sourly disappointed with this latest entry. Shang Tsung is p!ssed at losing the last battle, so he traps Liu Kang (who I thought was killed in Deadly Alliance?) and Rayden under a rapidly destructing rock and, with Rayden's guidance, Kang is left to battle a bunch of huge goblin like creatures to make his way to the final. STAR RATING: ***** The Works **** Just Misses the Mark *** That Little Bit In Between ** Lagging Behind * The Pits From what little plot I could make out to this latest addition to the MK series, here goes.