Monday Night Combat Announced; Team-Based Combat on XBLA

[DoctorFinger]

Uber Entertainment, a relative newcomer to the game development scene, has announced their first title, a third person shooter for XBLA called Monday Night Combat.

In the grand tradition of Rollerball, Death Race and Running Man, you're now fighting on TV for money. You choose from one of six different classes - each with their own unique weapons - and level up as you play. As you can see from the trailer, it's not exactly taking a realistic approach to the genre, with a bit of humor and over the top finishers.

Monday Night Combat is slated to hit XBLA "soon."

[Xerxes]

The netcode and maps will determine if it's a winner or not. Like the premise based on what I've seen so far . I guess people on PCs already have Team Fortress 2. (I know so does 360, but it was busted last time I played so long ago)

[Wolvie]

Interesting. It takes the idea of the Halo/Unreal/Team Fortress idea of team based combat, and further moves it toward a sport like environment. I like it. I will keep an eye on this.

[Talanvor]

This looks awfully close to TF2's style. Wonder if Valve is going to take a legal interest.

[SilentScreams]

I don't see what Valve could actually take them to court over.

[Gerbs]

Looks interesting. Netcode and how tight and lethal the shooting is will make the difference for me.

[Wolvie]

Originally Posted by SilentScreams

I don't see what Valve could actually take them to court over.

Yeah, I don't think you can sue because something reminds you of something else. If that happened the people that created Babylon 5 would have gotten sued into the ground by the people that created Deep Space Nine.

[Talanvor]

Originally Posted by Wolvie

Yeah, I don't think you can sue because something reminds you of something else. If that happened the people that created Babylon 5 would have gotten sued into the ground by the people that created Deep Space Nine.

It should have been the other way around, actually. Goddamn thieving Paramount. Ahem, please excuse my B5 fanboyism.

The reason I said what I did about Valve is because watching that trailer I was thinking about TF2, since the style/imagery is so similar it almost appears they were trying to copy it.

Of course the game might suck, and then no one will care anyway.

[Wolvie]

Originally Posted by Talanvor

It should have been the other way around, actually. Goddamn thieving Paramount. Ahem, please excuse my B5 fanboyism.

The reason I said what I did about Valve is because watching that trailer I was thinking about TF2, since the style/imagery is so similar it almost appears they were trying to copy it.

Of course the game might suck, and then no one will care anyway.

Yeah, it's an XBLA game so it's a 50/50 chance of that.

On a side note I remember thinking Halo was a ripoff of Quake because the helmet the MC was wearing looked a lot like the Quake marine. I wrote Halo off at first because of that, and refused to play it. Funny how things work out.

[KamaItachi]

Originally Posted by Talanvor

This looks awfully close to TF2's style. Wonder if Valve is going to take a legal interest.

They said the same about that online class based shooter with the stylized look from EA too.. BattleFront Heroes?

[Talanvor]

Originally Posted by KamaItachi

They said the same about that online class based shooter with the stylized look from EA too.. BattleFront Heroes?

You've got a point there.

[digitalErich]

Nice work devs, you nailed it...it's totally TF2's art style that makes it one of the best MP games of all time. Keep going with that train of thought. It worked for BF: Heroes, right? I must have sunk minutes into that game.

[Xerxes]

Originally Posted by digitalErich

Nice work devs, you nailed it...it's totally TF2's art style that makes it one of the best MP games of all time. Keep going with that train of thought. It worked for BF: Heroes, right? I must have sunk minutes into that game.

I would think they went with the style cause it's simpler.

[digitalErich]

That very well might be, but when your promo even apes they style of TF2's promos, then I have a hard time giving you the benefit of the doubt.

[Siraris]

Why didn't they just make the one team red instead of orange? Then it would have just been TF2 in the future.

[TheKeck]

Originally Posted by Wolvie

Interesting. It takes the idea of the Halo/Unreal/Team Fortress idea of team based combat, and further moves it toward a sport like environment. I like it. I will keep an eye on this.

I was going to say it looks vaguely like UT meets TF2.

[Wilkz07]

Team Unreal Fortress Tournament? Pass.

Edit - did quick reply - TheKeck beat me to it.

[SilentScreams]

Man...the way you guys are talking, it sounds like looking like TF2 is a bad thing...I'm not a fan personally but it's obviously a good game. That many people can't be wrong, right?
Writing it off because it looks like TF2 doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, especially if you like TF2.

[digitalErich]

Originally Posted by SilentScreams

Man...the way you guys are talking, it sounds like looking like TF2 is a bad thing...I'm not a fan personally but it's obviously a good game. That many people can't be wrong, right?
Writing it off because it looks like TF2 doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, especially if you like TF2.

Did you watch the video? It's more than just "looks like TF2." It's a competitive class based shooter. In short, it's a TF2 clone that looks like TF2. It might be great, but the fact that they need to ape an art style of game they are aping the gameplay from makes me think this team doesn't have anything original to offer.

I'm fine with games taking a successful aspect of another game and putting into theirs, but when everything I see is aspects of other games, you're going to need to prove to me that your game is worth playing.

[Aggort]

With how god awfully broken TF2 was on the 360, I sure hope this is a winner. For being an Arcade title this could definitely be pretty valuable if it's even half as good as BF1943.