Blitz is similar to a turret defense game, where you must protect your Moneyball from the bots with turrets and firepower, with several different difficulties, which you can play both on and offline. Crossfire is an online only, six-v-six bloody brawl. Each team (Hotshots and Icemen, clever names for the usual red and blue teams) has their own Moneyball, and six turret nubs to build and sustain to defend their base, while they guide their bots to the enemy base, destroy the Moneyball, and win.
What I enjoyed
MNC has a great player base, an amazing sense of humor and great core game play that has kept me busy since it's release on August 11th. Each game can play differently, with the environmental hazards, what bots or turrets you choose to build, what classes and endorsements you use, and how you spend your money.Each class is unique, with three skills they can use in battle, a grapple on their secondary weapon, and a passive skill that can affect their weapons, health, and more. They also get three different endorsements, which range from Gold being the most effective, to Bronze, the least effective. With that, each class spawns a different type of bot, ranging from the kamikaze Buzzers to the heavy Bouncers, which grapple enemy Pro's. There are four different maps, with more on the way via DLC, each one different in their own ways, and various environmental hazards and walls, back passages and ads to keep you distracted. The humor in the game is fantastic, with the sly jokes of each character in their taunts, to the endorsement taglines, and the announcer, Mickey Cantor, who chooses to live a poor life, and wants everyone to know.What I didn't enjoy. At all.
Despite all the praise I have just slaved over to type, there are a few flaws. The game has numerous bugs that must be fixed, along with a small repertoire of maps to play on. The announcer can also become annoying after a while, with the repeated lines. Luckily, Uber Entertainment has stated that there will be bug fixes for all the known problems very soon, along with a free map before the first DLC hits the Xbox Live Marketplace.
What do I think of all of this? I enjoy the game. I play daily, if not every other day. The gameplay is much less "hardcore" than Halo or Modern Warfare, with a great sense of humor and many ways to play one class. I'll give it a 4.5/5, because some of the bugs do make the game hindering, and of course there are players who abuse these bugs and make the game unpleasant to play.
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