Many gamers of a certain age can still remember their first time with the original Mortal Kombat. In the early 1990s, those jerky, motion-captured fighters seemed like they had been beamed in from the future but it was those "fatality moves" that really set it apart from its rivals.
While the cutesy celebrations of Street Fighter 2 wouldn't have looked out of place in the freshly-launched Premier League, here players were invited to burn defeated rivals to a crisp or yank their spines out of their backs.
So 1995's bloodless film adaptation, featuring Christopher Lambert in a straw hat felt a bit, well, spineless. But it looks like we are going to get a more faithful live-action adaptation in January, when Fast & Furious director James
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