[Typhoid]

I got this game yesterday.

First of all, this is by far the most fun I've had playing any fighting game since I played the very first Mortal Kombat when I was little. This game just feels old - but not in a bad way.

It's the most needlessly graphic thing I've played, and by Zeus it's fantastic.

The story mode in the game is ACTUALLY pretty good. I mean, obviously the game itself is just a fighting game - but between the fights there is a storyline set out that is actually relatively entertaining. It's like watching a (Not excessively terrible) MK movie, then fighting the fights in the movie. You get back story on the characters (which is cool).

What I think is that they're re-doing the entire series, on the basis that this game takes place near the beginning of the MK video game series - and the basis of the storyline is to alter history.

Anyways, if you enjoyed the original MK games when they first came out, I almost guarantee you'll love this game.

There are tag matches (which you can play with up to 3 other people), there is a challenge ladder of (apparently) over 200 challenges. They do still include the "Test your Might/Sight" parts, as well. There is also online, beautiful, beautiful online.

The makers of the game even found a way to make the un-lockables section needlessly graphic. Of course, I found this out after wandering through a forest (In FPV) of trees that have what appear to be intestines stemming from the tree, through the mouths of humans. Upon selecting which thing to unlock, some goo rushes through the intestines into the mouth, then into the belly, where the person then explodes - and you get your fancy little prize. Which can be anything from a new fatality, to just some concept art.