First Game Review: MNC

So, due to the snow I had a pretty chillaxed day today and ended up not doing all that much (except for watching A Serbian Film, and man was that fucked up; I think you guys are gonna love the review). Anyway, I spent most of today watching TV and playing videogames (mostly videogames). I wasn't exactly in the mood to play a lot of the games and mods that I already had so first I headed over to ModDB to see if there was anything there I wanted to go for. Unfortunately, no.

I really felt like I wanted something new though, and considering I've been having to pull extra hours at the movie theater, I felt confident that I could afford a good budget title, so I headed off to the Steam Store to check out any deals they were having. This is where two titles caught my eye: Global Agenda and Monday Night Combat.

Now, there were two reasons I really even considered Global Agenda: first of all, it was on sale for $7.50 and there were no subscription fees, and secondly; at a glance it reminded me of PlanetSide.

Man, I loved the 14 day free trial of this game, just not enough to pay $12.99/month for it

Anyway, after viewing a few gameplay videos of GA I decided to go with MNC instead even though it was a little under $7.00 more. Now, I had been vaguely aware of MNC when it came out for XBox Live Arcade but I hadn't really paid much mind to it because it really just seemed like a blatant copy of TF2 that was dumbed down for console players. Because of this, I was pretty surprised when I found out they were releasing it for PC (and that it was going to be distributed by Steam, especially). Again, I just disregarded it as a bad console port and decided not to pre-order it.

Imagine my surprise when I go to PCGamer's website and find that they actually gave MNC their Editor's Choice Award! I was totally baffled, I thought for sure that MNC was just a lame rip off, but if PCG liked that, then I probably would too.

Review after the jump