Monday Night is right for fighting...

Monday Night Combat is a bit of a play on Monday Night Football. It is a third person FPS/Tower Defense game with some aspects of a MOBA game.

MNC is set in a game show style. You are part of a team of contestants that are fighting for cash prizes. This can be either against another team of "pros" where you attempt to destroy the other teams "moneyball" or in a co-op mode where you fight waves of mobs culminating in a battle with a final"jackbot" boss wave. There are a couple of commentators who now and again have some fantastic funny lines too.

The concept of the game is very good, there has never really been a game like this before. The nice thing about it is depending on what type of game you prefer you can play differently. If you are an FPS fan you can just go around using your weapons and ignoring the other elements and the same applies to the Tower Defense aspect.

However there are some issues, as this is supposed to be played primarily as a multi-player game
the single-player aspect is severely lacking. There is no option to use "bots" so you can't play the team vs team maps or get support in the co-op mode. The same issues apply to multi-player, often times teams will be unbalanced until enough people join to fill all the slots. There is also no match making system so you can find that highly skilled players will be facing new players lessening the enjoyment of both. There are also a couple of maps where if you can reach a certain spot you are untouchable while still being able to kill the opposing team.

Despite these few issues I really enjoyed playing MNC and I liked the concept. The game can be picked up for a fairly cheap price and would be worth the cost. However the developers are currently working on a new title called Super Monday Night Combat which will be a more well developed game and should hopefully iron out any of the issues from the first. In my opinion at this stage it would probably be more worthwhile waiting for SMNC to come out.