{"id":13713,"date":"2012-09-24T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=13713"},"modified":"2013-02-07T14:17:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:17:04","slug":"awesomenauts-2d-side-scrolling-moba-awesomeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/column\/review-column\/awesomenauts-2d-side-scrolling-moba-awesomeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Awesomenauts Is 2D, Side-scrolling, MOBA Awesomeness"},"content":{"rendered":"
The year is 3587, a time when the never ending war between the Ones and Zeroes rages across the galaxy. Both armies fight for the most valuable and scarce metal: Solar. Huge drills pull the liquid cash out of planet cores and asteroids, but these outposts must be defended. Robot armies of Ones and Zeroes hire super-elite mercenaries to defend their mining facilities and assault their enemies. These teams are called Awesomenauts, and they appear in a game of the same name that’s a sides-crolling MOBA created by Ronimo Games. Thanks to a clone-free cast of characters, it\u2019s easy to find a favorite, but all of them are worth playing. The gameplay is smooth, hectic, and addicting. It’s perfect for a quick break from work or to completely neglect all other responsibilities (i.e. bills). At $10 on Steam<\/a>, this is one of my favorite purchases for all of 2012.<\/p>\n [yframe url=’http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x–DVqnaxtk’]<\/p>\n The space mercenaries each have their own theme songs. Froggy G gets down with his funky self and Leon, the French chameleon, sings a seductive tune that I can only assume is about baguettes. The cartoony style of Awesomenauts<\/em> encourages the silly and awesome, while firmly adhering to the rule of cool. For example, Clunk, a housecleaning robot that got fired for cleaning \u201ctoo well\u2026\u201d, eats enemies to recover health and can self-destruct with a large area of effect blast while only receiving some damage. Normally, robots don\u2019t regenerate after eating people or walk away to eat people after self-destructing, but I\u2019m not about to tell Clunk that.<\/p>\n These super rad space mercenaries fight across three maps: Ribbit IV contains a cyclopean frog with tiny, vestigial, T-rex arms, horns, and a boss gold chain wrapped around what one can only assume is a neck. Solar bosses (frog-freaks) give money to the entire team when defeated. Sorona has a worm pit with a ledge above it and a button on top, perfect for the stealthy Leon. AI Station 404 has a room with low gravity and a box that releases flying lane creeps that help push a lane.<\/p>\n