MechWarrior (1989)
Genres:Shooter, Simulator
Themes:Action, Science fiction
Game modes:Single player
Story:MechWarrior is the first video game released in the BattleTech game series. MechWarrior was the first video game to offer the player a chance to pilot a BattleMech from the view of a pilot (a MechWarrior). With this game the player has a great deal of freedom when compared to many of the follow-up MechWarrior games, which include choosing missions, buying & selling 'Mechs and parts, hiring lance-mates, and traveling throughout the Inner Sphere. Underneath the major game mechanics, the player had the option of following a role playing style story arc that would unfold over a five-year (game time) period.Show more
One of the first sandbox type games, you were mostly free to roam the galaxy and do what you wished. Althougt there is a time limit on the game, very Oblivion-like in that you don't even really have to do the story missions if you like. For the time, the depth and graphics were decent.
No, no, no. You don't -understand-. This game introduced me to the Battletech universe. This game owned my life constantly to the utter dismay of my parents. I was absorbed by the combat and the lore and the universe and breathed it. I memorised the access codes. I knew every detail intimately. I breathlessly followed every gaming magazine's updates until Mechwarrior 2 was released and then I played -it- to death too. This game is why I'm obsessed with giant walking war machines. This game is why I became a robotics researcher - I build these now.
Few people cared, but actually this game has a storyline! If you bother to read "emails" that you recieve (in-game), they are from different characters that ask you to fly here (with your mech) and do this-and-that, and in the process your affinity to different factions changes, and you uncover bits and pieces of the story. Too bad that when I first played this game many years ago, all I cared for were giant robot battles and I didn't really care about the storyline...
Ahh MechWarrior, truly the first game love of my life. I loved how you could ignore the story and just play with giant mechs. But playing the story was awesome since you had to actually measure time passing. Most games today allow you to play side quests and just wander about while an 'urgent' mission from the main story waits for you to get around to it. Not here, you were punished for monkeying around. Plus you could earn money by buying mechs cheap on one planet and selling for a profit on another planet. You just had to find the right planets! So replayable, so beautiful (at the time), the sounds and music was so memorable (you have to hear the AC, the sound effect was so unique!), it was a perfect game. But boy was it slow when you got the assault mech (Battlemaster all the way!). I would set the direction I wanted to walk and then go have breakfast. It was about a half hour in real time before I needed to actually do anything, so I could also watch cartoons on Sat morning. What a great time to be a kid!
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