MechWarrior ready for a comeback?
Video teasers make convincing case.
Robot franchise MechWarrior could be ready to make a return after seven years on the scrapheap.
A trio of teaser trailers on IGN, featuring hulking mechanised bipeds, point to as much.
Piranha Games is rumoured as the developer and EA as the publisher. Smith and Tinker now owns the rights to MechWarrior after creator FASA Studios closed following poor reception of Shadowrun.
IGN also happens to have an upcoming and coincidentally-timed interview with Piranha and Smith and Tinker. And Piranha, remember, has been working on an unannounced next-gen project since 2005.
MechWarrior is a very popular tabletop RPG series. Its videogame legacy comes from a series of action-shooter games where we take control of robots and blow things up.
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Big stompy robots = good.
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Play as the President of the goddamn USA in a giant robot
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I think it is a Jenner according to the tag under the third vid. And it could very well be.
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For the new game I would like to see the ability to get in and out of these mechs, as well as some kind of third person action sections. Realistically though, the mech warrior franchise was only really fun when you were playing a mercenary. Heck I even remember the brilliant intro to mercenaries (which I still have) where your crew is legging it from an ambush on some unknown world and your mentor get's left behind. Then on the ship you get the brilliant last will from her "If you are reading this, then I'm dead. You can keep your mech...". You effectively inherit a mercenary unit and have to name it, choose your jobs etc. etc.
What are the odds this new one is total crud.
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I really hope they won't turn it into console shooter with shoddy port for pc...
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A core part of the strategy was the lengthy cat'n'mouse end game that resulted, when everyone had ran out of decent weapons and was all busted up.
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please be good, please be good
/crosses fingers