In the 2011 Mortal Kombat rebooted video game , Liu Kang reprise his role from the first three tournaments as one of Raiden 's chosen warriors . Raiden , who have visions from the future in which Shao Kahn remained as the last warrior , believe that Liu Kang is the warrior which his future self chose as the savior . As in the first game , Liu Kang succeed in defeating Goro and Shang Tsung , though Raiden 's amulet continue to crack , unchanging the future .