Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade program has delivered really quality downloadable games in the form of Limbo and Lara Croft. Monday Night Combat doesn’t quite achieve those lofty levels of appreciation as its derivative shooter format and thin options clearly peg it as an action game for the budget-conscious. Still, it’s fun enough for the price, and if you bring buddies along for the multiplayer options, you’ll find a Team Fortress 2-like (or that could also be -lite) experience for a bargain price.
Set in a future when Monday Night Football has been replaced by the latest television sensation, Monday Night Combat (like, 2011, when the current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires and over-paid players and over-profited owners butt heads and likely kill a season–or more–dead in its tracks) this arena combat game tells its own crazy tale. The Helios Corporations has, among other Google-like enterprises, “acquired” Spain and France, rebranded them as “Spance” and set an arena there for the ultimate TV show.
