Free-to-play Super Monday Night Combat announced

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Fans of Monday Night Combat will be happy to hear that Uber Entertainment hasn’t forgotten about the beloved franchise. No, they’re not finally releasing the DLC packs they promised for the Xbox 360 version—you can just about forget about those. Instead, they’re prepping a pseudo-sequel, entitled Super Monday Night Combat, for release within the next few months. Best of all? It’s going to be free-to-play, and supported by optional microtransactions that Uber claims are completely optional. "You literally could spend zero dollars and be entertained for a long time. That's really important to us," Uber president Bob Berry told Kotaku.

There will also be three new characters joining the game’s original cast: the Combat-Girl (a playable version of Pit-Girl), the Veteran (a former wrestler with grapple-based attacks), and the Gunslinger (a sniper, though a significantly different sniper than the original). More will be added after launch, too, and odds are the new classes, as well as high-larious costumes, will be the game’s revenue. If we spend half as much on SMNC skins as we do League of Legends skins, Uber won’t have any issue making up the money they’re losing by making it F2P.

Considering our love for Monday Night Combat, MOBAs, and not paying for things, we’re really excited to find out more. With a release promised within the next few months, we’re not expecting we’ll need to wait very long.

Aug 25, 2011

Source: Kotaku

Hollander Cooper
Hollander Cooper

Hollander Cooper was the Lead Features Editor of GamesRadar+ between 2011 and 2014. After that lengthy stint managing GR's editorial calendar he moved behind the curtain and into the video game industry itself, working as social media manager for EA and as a communications lead at Riot Games. Hollander is currently stationed at Apple as an organic social lead for the App Store and Apple Arcade.