Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks is still a month away, but we got our hands on the demo and thought we would share. We were always taught that it was better to share than to play unreleased games and keep it to ourselves.

First off, lets have a little history lesson. Mortal Kombat was a fighting game that was a good alternative to Street Fighter. What made it stand out was its combo system, its different graphics, and oh yeah, the gore. MK made a couple treks into the 3D fighting arena with varying degrees of success. But they also made a couple of mediocre action titles, namely Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero and Mortal Kombat: Special Forces. Well enough of the history lesson, you want to know if Shaolin Monks is any good. Well in a word, yes.

It took Midway a couple of tries, but they got the 3D fighting genre down with Mortal Kombat: Deception. And well I guess it took a couple of tries to get the action genre right, but now they have. Shaolin Monks has all the gore and speed you would expect from a MK game. But now it