Film fans will have two reasons to get excited when booting up Mortal Kombat X in July! While The Predator hogs headlines as the game's second downloadable guest fighter - The Kombat Pack will also introduce Hollywood royalty in "The Count of Monte Fisto" himself: Carl Weathers!



Weathers may be best remembered for his iconic turn as boxing champion Apollo Creed in the Rocky series, but will be featured in MKX as a mashed-up reference to his Predator role: former Special Forces Major turned CIA operative - Agent George Dillon.

Weathers will again don the Dillon cap digitally, whilst wearing the cybernetically enhanced arms of another Major of the Special Forces - Jax! Filling in for Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Dutch" will be Johnny Cage - pictured above locking up with Weathers in a callback to the flexing machismo of the original film.

Predator was first released in 1987. Director by John McTiernan, the cult classic spawned a citybound sequel and a franchise of crossover duels with Aliens, DC Superheroes and more. The original looms large over the franchise - an eighties action movie classic with a thinking man's edge.

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