Monday Night Combat was one of the year’s less publicised Xbox 360 success stories.<\/p>\n
This is what Tarryn van der Byl had to say about it:<\/p>\n
What’s up with the future, man? If the video games are to be believed, sometime around 2050 or so, humanity’s going to abandon all this shabby pretence of civility and indulge its basest atavistic savagery with corporate-endorsed arena deathsports. Two thousand years of conscientious social evolution, and we’re the ****ing Roman Empire all over again, now sponsored by Burger King. Eheu, futura non sunt eadem quae quondam fuerunt. <\/em><\/p>\n Anyway, Monday Night Combat. It’s basically Team Fortress mashed up with Defence of the Ancients, stuffed with loads of robots and a few scraps of bacon, and presented as a gameshow. And while it’s so obviously Team Fortress mashed up with Defence of the Ancients, and stuffed with loads of robots and a few scraps of bacon, and presented as a gameshow, it plays like something completely unique. <\/em><\/p>\n