The day has finally come friends, the day the world has been waiting for. An online console verison of Mortal Kombat II, one of the greatest fighting games in the history of the world.

The game is now avail for $5 from the PS3's network store, and rings in at over 200MB. Sort of surprising considering UMK3 on the Xbox 360 was only 50MB, but hey, no limits means they can go hog wild, right? Sure. Except the menus are more ghetto than UMK3 on the 360, and the network setup has something to be desired... but I guess that's just the PS3 network in general.

Anyway, onto the game! Yes, it plays fantastic. Aside from a few glitches graphically like missing shadows, the game is nearly arcade perfect. Online play is excellent as well, nearly lag free even running over a wireless connection with questionable speed. I played against Jeff for about 30 matches tonight, and we only hit a small lag spike maybe 3 times, nothing that lasted more than a second or so each time... amazing for any game, let alone a fighting game. The handful of public games I joined ran smooth for the most part, tho one game was a little laggy, overall it seems to do the game justice.

Some additional features would have been nice, and I'm not exactly sure how the whole leaderboard points system works (I've won a good 90+% of my games and yet my score is just in the middle there somewhere), the core game is fantastic and that is what really matters. All in all I'm very pleased with this version, and here's hoping we'll see MK 1 sometime in the future!

Look me up on the PS3 Network (gamertag: Raidy) and lets duke it out!