If you were one of the many players that helped make Monday Night Combat a surprise hit upon its release on Xbox Live Arcade last year, you may find yourself interested in developer Uber Entertainment's latest project: Super Monday Night Combat for the PC.
The primary difference in this iteration of Monday Night Combat is that it's a free-to-play title. Anyone who downloads it will be able to play the breadth of the game for precisely zero dollars. Like other FTP titles, Uber plans to make its revenue off microtransactions for items and specific content updates.
There will be changes to the gameplay, as well. The team-based shooter will move from a six-on-six model to five-on-five, and include an all-new leveling system, designed to improve players beyond the marginal scope of the skill upgrades found in the Xbox 360 version. New environments, characters, and other upgrades will also be included.
There is a full, lengthy preview of Super Monday Night Combat up over at Kotaku, if you're into that sort of thing. Considering the success of other FTP titles like League of Legends and the recently transitioned Team Fortress 2, this seems like a wise, competitive move from Uber. What say you, Monday Night Combat fans? Will you check out this updated version on your PC? Or are you perfectly happy with the XBLA version?
I already play MNC on steam, and love it. I'd like to know more about Super MNC, for sure!
I guess this means the pay version is going to completely dry up. :\
Am slightly disappointed the next game in the series isn't Tuesday Night Combat.
@gking said:
Apology not accepted.
Good for them! Maybe a bit late, but still- good for them.
@DarkDude said:
Yeah...
F2P = Free to play.
FTP = File transfer protocol.
Come on guys, standardize this before the genre gets out of hand.
More Monday Night Combat is always a good thing.
This is a great idea, I think. The TF2 allusions are there anyways, so a similar setup is probably good. However, it should be noted that a large part of TF2's success is on the basis that it is the heel for Steam and is leveraged by those TF2 bonus items that come from other games that release for Steam.
So I don't know, sounds good maybe, but business-wise we'll have to see how it works out in practice.
Fantastic!
(leaving that last one in there)
It's an ok game but the floaty controls ruined it for me. Hope this helps them out because everything else was high quality compared to the budget price.
Played the hell out of it on Xbox, never got into the PC version. This could be a good chance.