Monday Night Combat – a computer game in the multiplayer third-person shooter genre. It was developed by Uber Entertainment. The project was released in mid-2010.
The game takes place in a reality show format. Yes, the sport of the future is tough and immensely fun. Everything happening on your monitor is supposedly viewed by virtual audiences on their television screens. So what's the point of such bloody entertainment? Money, of course—an endless amount of money. By battling each other in an improvised arena or fighting together against robotic bots, gladiators earn bucks and secure a comfortable retirement. However, reaching retirement age is easier said than done, as not everyone will make it.
Monday Night Combat closely resembles the famous multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2, albeit with a different aesthetic. Players choose a class they fancy, select their preferred mode, and enter the fray, earning money, points, and other virtual goodies.
In the game, you can fight solo or in cooperative mode, which is much more fun and engaging. For instance, in the Blitz mode, you must battle an entire army of robots, rolling in waves onto the arena and trying to break through to your money ball—in simpler terms, the control point. Various in-game options, from flexible character class settings to the placement and upgrading of several types of turrets, can help thwart the invasion of mechanized monstrosities. The maximum number of players in cooperative mode is four.
The Crossfire mode shifts away from cooperative pursuits and sends players to fight against each other. The essence of the game remains almost unchanged. Gamers head into battle as part of one of the teams, supported by allied robots. The goal of the mode is to breach the enemy base, destroy the living and mechanized forces of the opponent, entertain the television audience, and earn a pile of bucks. The American dream, it's practically cinematic.
In Monday Night Combat, there are plenty of options for customizing your characters, which open up as you increase your ranking, earn points, and accumulate other heartwarming items. Additionally, a flexible skill customization system allows you to turn your hero into a completely unique killing machine, a fighter entirely different from your teammates or opponents. The game features six different classes, suspiciously similar to the classes in Team Fortress 2. Of course, the abilities vary just as the appearances do, but the cloning of certain aspects from TF2 is, as they say, evident. The Assault class runs around with a massive machine gun, mowing down enemies by the dozens while suffering from a lack of speed. The Soldier is a mid-range class, capable of easily eliminating several opponents but just as easily succumbing to death. The Assassin sneaks in, his privilege lies in the knife stabbed into an enemy's back and killing stealthily.
Monday Night Combat could be regarded as a typical, run-of-the-mill clone of one previously mentioned game, if it weren't for one thing— the project has gained a whole host of fans and admirers. It's hard to say what this is attributed to, but there is undoubtedly a certain level of success for Monday Night Combat.