Welcome to MNC...
Monday Night Combat Crossfire game mode is a game of defense as well of offense, in the sense that not only do you have to defend your team's money ball but you also have to attack there's too... yet you can't just get into their base and shoot it, nope you have to lead your teams army of bots in there to bring down there shield, so then you can blast away at it!Now this sounds easy enough and it is if you have a good team and if not, we'll let us just say you'll be losing a lot of matches if you don't as this is no one man army game. Nope MNC is all about team play using each character class to it's strengths and while also using them to the other teams class's weakness's Uber Entertainment have made an amazing arcade game, OK we do feel as though the game could be tweaked a bit more for balance but what game doesn't.
Time to get your game on!
You get to pick from 6 different class's and each one is unique in its own way, you want to be a guy with an assault rifle and bombs? Then the 'Assault Class' is the guy for you or maybe you want to be stealthy stab others in the back kind of player... well clearly you want to be an Assassin! there are different class's to different situations and you will have to learn them all as like we said this game is about team work, and a team full of Snipers, Assassins or Supports will only get a team so far.As we found out the hard way trying to run around as Assassin's cloaked trying to grab other players to pull off the grapple move or even being a support class, as each have a weakness and you catch a support class on his own without a fire-base to help him or even another team mate and he is basically an easy kill (unless he tags you with a Air-strike) or even assassins are good if there cloaked, as god knows how many times we got killed due to them grappling us with their instant melee kills!
But you said you loved me, and not her!!!
Yet get an assassin uncloaked and that bitch isn't so tough, as any of the other class's could bring her down easily. Gunners are like Arnie from the terminator 2 (no there no robots from the future) that there mini gun is devastating in the right gamers hands, and if they get a good spot and deploy it well they can wipe out players in seconds. We do feel as though the support class is somewhat unbalanced due to their health/hurt gun having no reload/cool down period.Each class spawns different types of bots for you to fill the arena with, Assault class can spawn Buzzer bots, Assassins can spawn Gremlin bots, Supports spawn Gap Shots... and then each class reacts differently to them as not all class's can grapple every bot and some are better at destroying them than other class's are!
Good View... Huh!
As assassins are the best we found for killing/taking out Jack-bots there grapple on them is almost an instant kill, now you have to remember all this while playing the game keeping an eye on what class's your team mates are etc... Has the other team got an advantage point or have they left open a way into their base. And even if you do get your bots to their base you just hope there aren't loads of turrets defending their money ball. Any class can request a turret (as long as you have the funds for it) but what one do you pick as there are 4 to pick from like; Rocket turret, Laser turret, OK one of them isn't a turret per say but more of a defense turret... it's called a Shavelce turret! and it doesn't fire anything but instead release's a aura to either effect cloaked enemy's or slow down the attacking bots and they come in handy if your money ball is under attack from a lot of bots.
This is my Hood bitch!!!!!!
There is a lot to think about when playing MNC but a as we keep saying MNC is very team based game no lone warrior tactic's will work here. and yet we feel as though we haven't even mentioned half the things we saw or did during some matches of MNC, but then we wouldn't want to ruin some of the surprise's for new players, there is also custom class's for players who have enough money to buy them (See Picture above/below) and you pick Position (base character) and then select which Endorsements (perks) you want to select, you only have three slots open for you to use and they work they same way as they would but there put into Gold, Silver, Bronze... so the gold one will be your main Endorsement (perk) if you pick 'Skill Recovery' first this will be Gold sponsor as the game puts it, meaning that it will work faster than say your silver/bronze sponsor!
The support class loves to jet ski....
So the support class can now have quicker juice build up than normal, or that having speed selected on a gunner means he moves faster than he was without it! And speaking of juice you get this by racking up kills or taking out turrets and bots without dying mind you. And once you have a full tank your character is like a Tron player but his weapons/skills are more powerful and you move really fast and can take more damage... its not something you will get a lot unless you use some good team play tactics.For a game that's only 1200 MS points (9.99) it kind of makes you look at some of the full priced games out there and wonder why companies are charging 40-45 per game! When you get amazing games like this for way less. MNC is one of XBL arcades best titles! one of the other things we like about MNC is that the game will never need a patch as Uber Entertainment have said everything can be done server side, so no need for patches/updates or for players to wait for MS's certification process on any of the updates.
MNC is one of the most fun games we have played this year, hell we would so far as to say it's one of the best games we've played in a long time, there is so much fun to be had here. OK we do recommend you have friends to play with or at least a good team as this isn't no quick scoping game... and Uber Entertainment have said they will be supporting this game with more content and we hope they do as you only get 4 maps with the game so far there is another mode called blitz (imagen horde/firefight) but Crossfire is the mode for us!
Yeah shake it Bulleye's, You the man (he got man titty's)
it's Simple Buy Monday Night Combat now....Get out there and do some pain:
- Amazing value
- A lot of Fun
- Good use of Class's
- Very addictive
- Nice mixture of Gameplay
- Can feel a bit unbalanced
- Assassins can get annoying
- If a game lags its no fun at all