Mortal Kombat X's Violence is Fantastical

"We don't try to get the gore to be too realistic. "

The brutality in NetherRealm's upcoming fighting game Mortal Kombat X is unquestionably, but the developer reveals that they are aiming for fantastical not realistic violence.

"We like to keep everything a little on the tongue-in-cheek side," he told Polygon. "We don't try to get the gore to be too realistic. We always want people to do a fatality and at first you're just like, 'Wow, that's gross.'"

"But then you laugh about it after, because it's so ridiculous," Edwards added. "I mean, pulling the guy's organs out? That's not something that's realistic violence, right? It looks realistic, just graphically because of the power of the new consoles, but it's still very tongue-in-cheek and kind of fantastical."

Edwards also mentioned that the sheer power of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 helps them to make the game have even more gore.

"We can punch holes in pretty much any part of the body that we want to," he said. "The tech has allowed us to do a bunch of crazy stuff that we've never been able to do before."

The Mortal Kombat X release date is April 14 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions, however, have been delayed.