Re: Xbox Live Marketplace and Live Arcade discussion Part III
Monday Night Combat Hands-on
Monday Night Combat Hands-on
But for a more Team Fortress-style experience, you might try Monday Night Combat
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Monday Night Combat has two game modes, one for single-player and one for multiplayer. They were demonstrating the multiplayer game, Crossfire, today. It's a variation on Capture the Flag where each team has a "Moneyball" on their own turf. True to its name, it is a ball filled with money. Your goal is twofold: defend your own Moneyball and destroy your opponent's, releasing the coinage within. Players will have to communicate well with their teammates in order to make sure all bases are being covered.
There are six classes to choose from:
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Monday Night Combat has two game modes, one for single-player and one for multiplayer. They were demonstrating the multiplayer game, Crossfire, today. It's a variation on Capture the Flag where each team has a "Moneyball" on their own turf. True to its name, it is a ball filled with money. Your goal is twofold: defend your own Moneyball and destroy your opponent's, releasing the coinage within. Players will have to communicate well with their teammates in order to make sure all bases are being covered.
There are six classes to choose from:
- Assault: An offensive player wielding an assault rifle and grenade launcher.
- Tank: A heavy unit with an intense Jet Engine Gun that works like a particularly badass flame thrower. But he also packs a Laser Railgun for long-range sniping.
- Sniper: A quick unit that does his best work from a distance.
- Support: Uses his extensive knowledge of cyberbiology and medicine to keep his team happy, healthy, and wise.
- Gunner: Slow and methodical, the Gunner is good at providing defense for his teammates.
- Assassin: She can cloak herself and pull off impressive acrobatic kills.
In addition to two weapons, each class also has three skills that can be activated with the X, Y, and B buttons. These can be used repeatedly but take some time to recharge. Defeated enemies will leave behind cash you can use during a match to upgrade your suit, your skills, and build defense turrets around your Moneyball that will attack incoming enemies.
Each team also has bots playing for them. These machines will spawn in groups and head towards the enemy Moneyball. You'll need them to bring down the Moneyball's defenses before you can start blasting it.
Matches have a 10-minute limit in case neither team can destroy the other's Moneyball, at which point the game will go into two-minute overtime. We played two rounds today: the first only lasted a couple minutes, and the second almost went into overtime.
Game representatives tell us there will be a persistent meta-game that tracks many of your stats and hands out constant rewards, similar to what the Modern Warfare games do. There are 400 Pro Tags to earn and show off to your buddies online. Some of these Tags are difficult to achieve, and the developers anticipate a lot of discussion among players about how to get those higher-level badges.
The other game mode is called Blitz and is intended to be a single-player experience, although it can be played with up to four players cooperatively.
Each team also has bots playing for them. These machines will spawn in groups and head towards the enemy Moneyball. You'll need them to bring down the Moneyball's defenses before you can start blasting it.
Matches have a 10-minute limit in case neither team can destroy the other's Moneyball, at which point the game will go into two-minute overtime. We played two rounds today: the first only lasted a couple minutes, and the second almost went into overtime.
Game representatives tell us there will be a persistent meta-game that tracks many of your stats and hands out constant rewards, similar to what the Modern Warfare games do. There are 400 Pro Tags to earn and show off to your buddies online. Some of these Tags are difficult to achieve, and the developers anticipate a lot of discussion among players about how to get those higher-level badges.
The other game mode is called Blitz and is intended to be a single-player experience, although it can be played with up to four players cooperatively.
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