It's that time again. Here's another episode of your favorite column focused on the latest in downloadable gaming content, Download That! Once again, GameSpy's console team has been spending points and taking on the latest across PlayStation Network, Virtual Console, and Xbox Live Arcade. We'll begin with the latest on the Sony side of things, with a downloadable version of one of the greatest fighting games to ever hit arcades.



MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAT!

Mortal Kombat II
Publisher: Midway
Developer: Digital Eclipse
Price: $4.99

I couldn't wipe the grin off my face when I heard that Mortal Kombat II was going to be on the PlayStation Network. I was a huge MKII fan back in the day, but wow, have my skills gone to the crapper. Either that or the computer has turned into more of a filthy cheater than I remember. Anyways, this is a capable port, looking and sounding almost as good as the arcade did all those years ago, which is a nice way of saying that it doesn't hold up very well compared to today's games. MKII is the high point of the Mortal Kombat series to many fans, and it's still plenty of fun to pull off all the finishers.


The core gameplay here works well. The online play isn't as well handled as UMK3 on the Xbox 360, as you could have predicted when comparing the PlayStation Network support to Xbox Live, but the D-pad on the SIXAXIS is much better-suited to fighting games than the awfully imprecise D-pad on the 360 controller. Now if only we could get one of those Japanese arcade sticks for the PlayStation 3 that we saw when playing VF5 in Tokyo last year...

Despite our grievances, the price is right, so we're giving this a hearty thumbs up.