MechWarrior
Published: February 1, 2009 - Last update: August 29, 2008 - 1018 downloads
- Alt names
- 机甲战士, Battletech
- Year
- 1989
- Genre
- Action, Simulation
- Theme
- BattleMech
- Publisher
- Activision, Inc.
- Developer
- Dynamix, Inc.
- Perspective
- 1st-Person
8 votes
727 KiB
Description of MechWarrior
To shortly resume MechWarrior (also known as 机甲战士, Battletech), it's about action, simulation and battlemech. It was done by Dynamix, Inc. in 1989. Feel free to download and try it!
Probably the very first giant robot game that can proudly claim to be a simulation than a straightforward action shooter, Mechwarrior is a great game set in FASA's famous BattleTech world of giant robots. It was, and still is, one of the best BattleTech games ever made. In this game, you play a young man whose reputation has been soiled by an evil usurper. You have five years to build a force of giant robots and great pilots strong enough to attack your foe. Take on mercenary missions for any one of the 5 houses from the first generation world of FASA's BattleTech (Kurita, Davion, Steiner, Marik, Laio). The missions themselves take place from first-person perspective, in 3D-rendered worlds, where you pilot your robot, fighting other robots of the same ilk. Gameplay, based on Dynamix's excellent physics model used in its early flight sims, is top-notch. Robots move convincingly, and the 3D polygonal graphics are exciting for its time. Add some slight roleplaying, team building, planetary intrigue, and goofy EGA pictures of non-player-characters and you've got a great classic that goes a long way toward immersing you in its world. The role playing was primarily textual - reading paragraphs, choosing between fight or run, and then being killed or moving on accordingly. The game's main focus, robot fighting, is very exciting. Combat usually lasts under 10-20 minutes because the maps are small, the opponents are few (Mechwarrior 2 and 3), just with less dense graphics and more abbreviated gameplay. Overall, Mechwarrior is a must-have for anyone even with a slight interest in giant robot games. It sets the standard for other games in the giant robots genre, and its role-playing elements are sorely missing from today's mech games where the focus has shifted to strategy and 3D graphics than plot and atmosphere. Two thumbs up!
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quickrick added this comment :
this game is awsome i remember playing it as a kid and i enjoyed playing again. it was better as an adult becaus i payed attention to the story.