Mortal Kombat: Special Forces

Mortal Kombat: Special Forces is an action game for the PlayStation. It allowed the player to take on the role of Jax (a.k.a. Major Jackson Briggs) as he tracks down the Black Dragon.

Storyline
The game develops the bitter relationship between Sonya Blade and Kano. Sonya was hot on the trail of Black Dragon criminal Kano, when he was led into the Mortal Kombat tournament. Kano represented the criminal underworld and Mortal Kombat was the supernatural event that caused all of these things to collide. But, they only hinted at their shaded past.

Sonya and Kano disappear after the first tournament. Jax takes a risky rescue mission to the Outworld. He must save his partner Sonya and stop Kano once and for all.

Trivia

 * Of all the Mortal Kombat games, Special Forces is considered to be the worst. This has much to do with the fact that many of Midway's staff, including series co-creator John Tobias, had left the company in 2000 for various reasons while the game was still in production. (Tobias eventually founded Studio Gigante, the creators of Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus, a game with some similarities with Mortal Kombat.)


 * This was the second Mortal Kombat game developed by Midway that was a platform rather than a fighting game, after having tested the waters with Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero in 1997. Tobias intended to work on a series of platform games to expand the Mortal Kombat universe, including titles centering around Baraka and the Shaolin Monks Liu Kang and Kung Lao; only the latter was actually released by Midway (in 2005) despite having sat on the drawing board for many years.


 * Mortal Kombat: Special Forces was rushed to completion following Tobias's departure, and sold so terribly that Midway placed the series on hiatus in preparation for Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. It was the last Mortal Kombat game to be released until the release of Deadly Alliance - widely regarded by gamers as the title that revived the once-sagging MK franchise - in 2002.


 * Sonya was originally supposed to be playable, but due to Midway making numerous changes to the game after Tobias left, she was omitted, although she does appear in the game.