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Uber Entertainment Walks You Through Monday Night Combat

This could be you! But hopefully not.

Aug. 3 2010

Posted by: Matt

In This Episode:

Monday Night Combat

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Big money! Big Prizes!

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Looks better than TF2.

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Edited By silentbob251

Looks kind of fun, but I think I'm gonna have to pass for now.

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Can't say I'm sold.

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Edited By phantomzxro

looking forward to this game i will try it out before because all the summer of arcade games have been just ok this year and the $15 price on all of them does not help. 
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Edited By yagami

Hmmmm... Pass.

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Edited By Korne

3rd person DotA... awesome!

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Edited By Skrams

Must TF2 be brought up every time? Please look beyond the art style and classes(which are pretty common to games nowaday) and look at it for what it really is. A DotA clone but a good one that I will probably buy :D

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Edited By kollay

The Tank, for some reason, reminds me of Dr. Robotnik.
 
Oh, I'm sorry. I meant Dr. Eggman.

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Edited By SpoonyBard

I personally think this looks great.  It looks like a great combination of genres (third-person shooter with MOBAs). 

 

The key will be the amount of players sticking with the game long term.  I certainly will probably be into it for a while.

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wtf was up with the bacon

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this sort of seems like an fps dota no?

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Edited By dangerousdave

Wow, looks great.  This game wasn't on my radar until I saw this.  I love the bright colours, the special abilities, and I love all the leveling up you can do plus the money you can spend. 

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Can you save someones bacon?

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@PATERSON said:
" Looks better than TF2. "
.... what ?
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Looking forward to this game, and to completing a quest.

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Pro tip: Dont charge over the edge

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@Shuborno said:
" @Ascully said:
" Looks pretty polished, but like most XBLA games the multiplayer base will be next to nothing a few weeks after release. "
This is how I feel about this.  If this were a PC game with a decent community, I'd probably try this, but I don't want to be forced to dedicate a week to a game and then have it die.  For games I love like TF2, the game is just always populated and I don't have to "make time" for it. "
Yes, I too agree with this series of quotes.  I feel like this could be a really cool game but as for how long this game will be relevant to gamers is what will likely keep me away.  XBLA games, historically, don't keep players online for long... I am sure there are exceptions and maybe this will be one of them, but I am sure that they are few are far between.
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Edited By winsord

Looks pretty fun, but I'll see if I end up willing to shell out $15 for it.

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This totally sold the game to me!

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Edited By fox01313

Might be worth playing, the earlier bit on just the sniper was a bit annoying to see more of but the gameplay looks solid. Definitely going back in the catagory of grabbing the demo for it (instead of skipping past it completely).

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looks like dota... eh. ill stick with LoL

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Pro Tip: Aiming down your rifle's sights leads to intimacy.

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This looks really fun, I can't wait to get my hands on it!

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@Crono said:
" @Shuborno said:
" @Ascully said:
" Looks pretty polished, but like most XBLA games the multiplayer base will be next to nothing a few weeks after release. "
This is how I feel about this.  If this were a PC game with a decent community, I'd probably try this, but I don't want to be forced to dedicate a week to a game and then have it die.  For games I love like TF2, the game is just always populated and I don't have to "make time" for it. "
Yes, I too agree with this series of quotes.  I feel like this could be a really cool game but as for how long this game will be relevant to gamers is what will likely keep me away.  XBLA games, historically, don't keep players online for long... I am sure there are exceptions and maybe this will be one of them, but I am sure that they are few are far between. "
Historicaly there hasn't been multiplayer games worth staying for. Battlefield 1943 being an exception and still has players on it. If the game is good and worth the time then ppl will play it.
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Damn, this has surprised me.

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This looks better than i thought it would. im officially exicted

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Game looks a lot better then the lame ass trailers.

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Maybe I'm retarded, but that game looks pretty incomprehensible.  I'm not entirely sure what the hell's going on.

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Oh hey looks like I was right, this game is totally bitchin'.

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I just hope that the PC version supports dedicated servers. I weep for all the multiplayer games that are casualties of matchmaking services.

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The demo dude kind of sucks, he aims too low, does something special happen with head shots that he was avoiding? Anyway the game looks great, but I still hope that there's at least a little persistence like TF2. No problem with what I saw, but it definitely insintivises continuous play.
 
EDIT: Never mind there totally is!

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What the hell are half of you talking about? This game looks fucking awesome!

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@Mercanis: 360 Exclusive for the moment, All Summer of Arcade games are exclusive or timed exclusives
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Hmm, looks interesting.

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@SSully said:
" I thought this looked really stupid from previous videos, but after this it actually looks really fun.  "
That's pretty much what I was thinking as well. I thought this was going to be the weakest of the summer XBLA games, but it does look more promising after watching that.
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I want this more than ever now. I've come to think this video has subsided my usual pessimism.

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Looks like a heartless TF2 ripoff for 8 year olds.  

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Like a lot of my fellow GB'ers, I'm pleasantly surprised at how fun this game looks.  I think I might pick this up when it comes out.

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Since there aren't any plans for a REAL version of Team Fortress 2 on the PS3... this'll have to do.

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@PJ said:
Historicaly there hasn't been multiplayer games worth staying for. Battlefield 1943 being an exception and still has players on it. If the game is good and worth the time then ppl will play it. "
You can't underestimate the draw of the Battlefield name.  I'm glad that game still has population as I enjoy playing it, but Monday Night Combat isn't as much on people's radar. 
 
If there is still a player population a month from now, I might pick it up. It looks great. I'm just busy with SCII, TF2, ME2, etc.
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"Oh no!"

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@Foggen:
pit girl, like a mechanic
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Why were they releasing all those stupid trailers? This game looks actually good.

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Commenting only stopping for a DOTA break.

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Just by the art style, I was convinced it was a rip off of TF2, but this actually looks pretty cool. I hope it also comes out for a platform other than 360.

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How is he able to stand inverted controls? BTW, I think this game looks really fun. I might get it.......

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Edited By Hyper_Bunny_Meow

TNT for this game would deffinitly go down a treat as could be a lot of fun with 6v6.
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This actually looks pretty rad. 

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Man, there should be more multiplayer games with stealth based options