For the past 500 years, the depraved Shang Tsung has held an
annual kombat tournament on his remote island.
His long-standing champion is Goro, a huge four-armed mutant warrior whose
prowess provides the losers' souls that become the life force to keep Shang Tsung young.
Today, seven kontestants are assembled, each one a master warrior with special powers.
As the rules of the kontest dictate, they must fight each other and
a carbon copy of themselves before taking on Goro...
and ultimately Shang Tsung himself.