Mortal Kombat 1 presents a soft reboot of the franchise with an all-new timeline. As the twelfth mainline game in the long-running series, Mortal Kombat 1 focuses around Liu Kang assembling a group of fighters to compete in the latest Mortal Kombat tournament. Liu Kang's leading role in this new story breaks away from a title the fighter acquired at the end of Mortal Kombat 11, but there's a good reason for this.