I played Monday Night Combat from the day it came out on XBLA, been playing it with alot of fun for about a year or so.
Super Monday Night Combat is NOTHING like MNC. The pace feels so much slower, there are no quick skirmishes, it feels less personal skill based. You cannot simply take anyone out anymore in 1v1 fights, something that shooters are usually about, though that this game is more MOBA like. I like the adition of new classes, new skills and more freedom for custom builds, sure. But at it's core, SMNC is a huge letdown for me.
In MNC, there were multiple ways to win: you could just focus down your opponents, keep them locked up in their base, while your bots made their way into there aswell. You could push lanes, focus on turret building, or a combination of the above mentioned. Now it's just passively pushing lanes, shoot at an opponent once is a while, but the dynamic combat that I used to love, is gone. To give you a simple example: in MNC you had around 100-150 HP based on your class and Endorsements. Now you start usually around 800-1000 HP (without Endorsements) and generally weapons feel weaker.
As much as I like alot of the new features they implemented in this game, I hate what the game has become at it's core, gameplay wise. I am really glad that I got to test this game, because I'd hate to have wasted money on this.
