{"id":814,"date":"2013-07-12T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=814"},"modified":"2013-07-30T02:06:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:06:52","slug":"lets-play-monaco-whats-yours-is-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/features\/lets-play-monaco-whats-yours-is-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Play Monaco: What&#8217;s Yours Is Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"borderless-image\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_BoNqsuFyII?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The first <a href=\"http:\/\/aus.paxsite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Penny Arcade Expo in Melbourne<\/a> is nearly upon us (in fact,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aus.paxsite.com\/schedule\/panel\/gaming-on-the-mac-will-there-ever-be-a-rainbow\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;ll be speaking there!<\/a>), and I&#8217;ve been taking some time over the last few months to get re-acquainted with the state of gaming on the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>One of the titles that I was very excited about was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketwatchgames.com\/Monaco\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monaco<\/a>. It was an indie game that was released on the Xbox a few months ago to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/pc\/monaco-whats-yours-is-mine\" target=\"_blank\">rave reviews<\/a>, but only recently released to <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/11022\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam for both Mac and PC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a retro-styled, 4-player heist game, where characters with various specialised skills (like the Lockpicker, the Lookout &amp; the wall-busting Mole to name a few) work together to break into places, break out of places, steal stuff and generally wreak havoc.<\/p>\n<p>What better way to try this game out than to grab 3 friends and give it a run?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/decryption\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Agius<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/petedillon\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Dillon<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/clueykid\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Watson<\/a> for giving up a few hours last weekend to run amok.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monaco is a retro-styled, 4-player heist game on Steam. I assembled a crack team of Anthony, Pete D, Lauren &#038; myself to investigate. Cue chaos!\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}