Pigs Fly, Sky Falls, New MechWarrior Announced

while this looks good graphically, so did MW4. i just hope it doesn't play like MW4. i've played the Mechwarrior/Battletech games since they were on my IBM 286 and think MW3 on PC was the best. Mechwarrior is meant to be a simulator; you pilot a massive tank-like mech. the very little of MW4 I played felt more like you were playing a FPS as a large mech, which is not the same.

Hell YEAH!, Bring back the Steel Battalion controller!!... I`d buy it

Mechwarrior 2 sits up there with TIE Fighter as one of the best games of this type and era. I can totally remember going through "trials" in my "clan" as our point commander taught me how to circle strafe. Back then having a joystick with a swivel axis was essential for games like mechwarrior. Fun stuff.

Fuck yes. I've missed me some MechWarrior, no doubt!

Goddamn! I've been just thinking how awesome it would be to see a new Mechwarrior game. Can't wait to jump in an Atlas and go for some dual gauss cannon action.

" Goddamn! I've been just thinking how awesome it would be to see a new Mechwarrior game. Can't wait to jump in an Atlas and go for some dual gauss cannon action. "

MechAssault 2 was my game years ago...I hate to brag but out of online multiplayer games that is one that I can actually say I was pretty damn good at.  I'm super excited for this, it looks like Chromehounds with better graphics and cooler mechs.

I use to play all the Mechwarrior Games ..starting with MechWarrior 2  it was the game franchise that made me buy a Joystick with foot-pedals.
it was the reason for me joining a clan, it is the reason i still call some of my former clan members best friends and it was the most fun I had playing PC games online.

So for me this and the Mechwarrior mod coming for Crysis is pretty awesome news.

The one thing that worries me is that they said its also for the 360... and that limits the control like what it use to be in the good old days.

Cause when you played it on the PC you pretty much needed all the buttons.. to name a few:

• Throttle control

• Flush coolant

• Shutdown override

• Zoom weapon

• Jumpjets

• Weapon grouping

Should be awesome, new MW page provided by me ;)

Cant wait to load up a Timberwolf with some ppcs and blow the crap outa some mechs.

It looks like crap; uninspired design and browngrey-ish colours. But I haven't played any of the former games.

graphics look nice, but it still looks like an extremely slow FPS game. 

I'd rather have a new Steel Battalion game.

" I use to play all the Mechwarrior Games ..starting with MechWarrior 2  it was the game franchise that made me buy a Joystick with foot-pedals.
it was the reason for me joining a clan, it is the reason i still call some of my former clan members best friends and it was the most fun I had playing PC games online.

So for me this and the Mechwarrior mod coming for Crysis is pretty awesome news.

The one thing that worries me is that they said its also for the 360... and that limits the control like what it use to be in the good old days.

Cause when you played it on the PC you pretty much needed all the buttons.. to name a few:

• Throttle control

• Flush coolant

• Shutdown override

• Zoom weapon

• Jumpjets

• Weapon grouping

And I haven't even mentioned/counted the standard movement controls and aiming... so unless the 360 version comes with its own joystick like they did with Steel Battalion ... they will remove some features... But in the end I know this is a day one purchase.. hell I would even preorder it now if I could... Just for old time sake.. "

Yay! Loved those old games!

WOOT!

Front Mission Evolved and now a new Mech Warrior?

Please mark a return of the Mech Game.

Loved the old games, hope to see more badass giant walking tanks blowing shit up.

" It looks like crap; uninspired design and browngrey-ish colours. But I haven't played any of the former games. "

" @Delta_Ass: I thought that light blue beam that protagonist's mech shot at Atlus was the new effect for a Gauss rifle. "

" @Delta_Ass: I thought that light blue beam that protagonist's mech shot at Atlus was the new effect for a Gauss rifle. "

a little campy

Oh, hell yes.  I've been waiting for another one of these.  Mechwarrior is a game that benefits more than most from better graphics, as the spectacle of all the projectiles and lasers flying around is a big part of what keeps me in the action.  It'll be interesting to see what kinds of refinements and additions they've tried to make, though I have to echo others' concerns that the nuance of the controls may be gimped quite a bit from before now that the game is on the 360 (which I could live with, but it'd be disappointing to see happen).

Hopefully they expand on the 'mech assembly system of MW4.  Oh yeah, and new weapons.  More new weapons, please!  :D

Holy Shit!!! I can't begin to describe how excited I am.  I was raised by mechwarrior 2 as a child

" @Delta_Ass: Ok, sure. No need to remind me why I'm not that into real mechs. Anyway It's still great to see a new MW game announced. At least Mad Cat is in it, right? Or is it a different timeframe to? "

As long as they release a super crazy controller peripheral alongside it, I support this.

Otherwise, no.

" As long as they release a super crazy controller peripheral alongside it, I support this.Otherwise, no. "

The only game I would be happy seeing FASA Studios working on right now is a new Crimson Skies game. That game's online multiplayer was second only to Halo 2 on the original XBox imo.

" @End_Boss said:

" As long as they release a super crazy controller peripheral alongside it, I support this.Otherwise, no. "

Mouse and keyboard should work fine. It worked fine for the previous games. "

I remember when I bought MechWarrior 3, and a map came with the game that had EVERY SINGLE key on the keyboard mapped to a different function.  It was awesome when I got it all down...I felt like a champ.

Awesome. Still Mechwarrior. Still borring to me. I never could enjoy the mechwarrior games back on the snes and pc. Nothing in that video makes me remotly interested sadly. Maybe I just rather have my robots looks like voltron or power rangers or transformers or something, not walking tanks with t-rex arm guns.

.....cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!

Sorry just needed to get that out of my system. I really don't know shit about mech games. Sounds cool though.

Good mech game = complicated flight sim-like controls

Bad mech game = deathmatch with 3 second respawns and press X to do everything controls.

This thread makes me sad I chose to raise myself on UT and AoE2 instead of ever checking MW out.
Hell, the only memory I have is some time in the far past where I played a game with robots.
And it was Mechsomething.
So apparently 3 is the best?

Well this certainly makes up for Duke Nukem Forever

I think I played the demo of MechWarrior 2 like... 1000 times.

Wow, I'm so stoked for this game. I played the hell out of MW2 and Mercenaries. Still remember unloading on mechs with PPCs and LRMs! Good times.

ROBOTS ! ! !

It will be interesting to see how this turns out.  I'm not in the "awesome!" category because I can't find anything to make me believe that Piranha Games can pull this off despite Weisman's (& Smith and Tinker Inc.) input.  I hope I'm wrong, but a CGI trailer, as cool as is I don't think that's much of a sign of how actual game play will be implemented.

Long ago myself and a few friends got together to play Battletech Tabletop, and to this day i have a handfull of minis and source books packed away in the back of the closet.  The game world and story are something I hope they can really re-claim.  This video gets me excited for what they *could* make, and hopefully with Weisman working on this they can re-ignite the series for all of us fans.  I also hope they can capture more of the tactical feel of the tabletop game, and judging from their interview it sounds like they're at least trying.  Destructable urban environments and pretty graphics could really make this franchise appeal to alot of gamers.  Too much more to say, Im excited and hope this is as good as it could be!

Looks cool

Excuse my french here. Fuck yeah! I don't want to get my hopes up to much here as I know the game will be dumbed down for the 360s limited controls and graphic capabilities. I have faith in the game industry once again.

Mech Warrior brings me back to my childhood days of coming home from school and playing it till bedtime ^