Arcade

Monday Night Combat
The first time I got to try this game was at PAX East. Just from playing a few rounds (and finding out it was an Arcade game), I knew I was going to pick it up. It looked like Team Fortress 2. You are either on the blue team or the orange team, and you can choose from several classes (assault, tank, support, gunner, assassin, or sniper). There is much more than meets the eye, though. Monday Night Combat is more like an action-based tower defense game.

Since this game was released last Wednesday, it's taken up a few of my evenings. After last night, I think I finally got the hang of it. For the first time, I had more kills than deaths. ^^; I've spent a good amount of time with every class (with the exception of the sniper). Even though they are slow, I prefer being the tank and the gunner.

I find it significantly more enjoyable (like most games) to be playing with friends. They are on my level, and we actually try to have balanced teams. It's pretty annoying to go online and have to go against teams that are all assassins or all gunners. I'm not a big fan of $15 being the standard for Arcade games, but I think Monday Night Combat is well worth it.

Last night, while playing someone made the comment, "Oh great, I'm on the girls' team." Another friend of mine (on the opposing team) taunted, "Haha! You're gonna lose!" Well, I was on that girls' team and we won that match (though, only half of us were girls). I thought the gals of Sugar Gamers might appreciate that story. ^^

Tank! Tank! Tank!
The past couple of weekends, I've made a trip out to Gameworks to hang out with some friends. One friend showed us a game called Tank! Tank! Tank!. My friend Sherwin had a time card, and kept feeding credits into the machine. So, we kept playing. This simple little game is fun and addictive. The sound is loud, the screen is long and tall, you hold on to this wheel, and you are jerked backward and forward whenever you shoot. There are pedals you press down on to move forward or backward, you use the wheel to steer your tank, and you press buttons on the wheel to shoot.


Speakers are built into the seats


The buttons used to shoot on the steering wheel glow

There are three different modes. You can be on a team and shoot at each other, be an individual tank and shoot at each other, or be on a team that shoots at giant robot bees and robot sea creatures. Well, shooting at giant robot bees and octopi was definitely the more popular option. Though, after playing that whole evening we had yet to figure out how to play against or with each other.

Another thing we had an absolute blast with is the camera. You choose a fun frame and a picture is snapped of you. This is used to represent you throughout the game (much like Mario Kart Arcade).


Me!


My friend Lindsay


Is that Rex?


TF feels pretty

Photos courtesy of my friend, Mark T. ^^