BATTLETECH

While the game is hardly stable, as it will crash regularly, I've yet to have it do so during a mission or in a way that makes me lose more than a few seconds of progress (10-20 usually) This game is not well optimized, so expect your top of the line machine to fare poorly. However despite this, it is, at its core, the battletech game that fans have been waiting for*. Anyone familiar with the lore will feel instantly at home, and enough is explained in a gentle and easy to grasp manner that newcomers will also enjoy the depth of the universe. The atmosphere is absolutely on-point, the music is properly styled in the grand, cyberpunk-stained fashion of the universe, and you feel the situation. Difficulty is perfectly balanced, and you will need to learn strategy on several levels to advance, from formation, to weapon selection, to heat management, to formation, right down to the design and weapon placement and synergy of your lance if you want any hope of getting through. Alternately, you can grind up a few missions for some better loadouts. Remember- if you can't crack the Jenner over your knee, you can always try an elbow, or go and get a bigger knee. Events and dialogue are immersive and well written, even when a few lines of voice are poorly cast or delivered. This game isn't terribly well polished, and it's not the most reliably functional, but the same goes for the aging house 'mechs in Battletech, and like those, this has heart and shows serious determination. After this gets a few rounds of patches, I assume it will become THE quintessential Battletech game. *ECM not included, I'm told it's en route with the Raven. There's also not as many mechs as there could be but for that one you'd be waiting a month and a half for the download at the resolutions of these robots. Renegade Legion players will also find no space combat, RPG players will feel a lack of air support, and you can't field your own vehicles, ya darn tankers. The DLCs will likely be a boon.

Didn't know anything about Battletech or Mechwarrior before, but this game hooked me up from the start. It does a good job introducing you to the world, even though some mechanics are not explained properly. If you are fan of TBS games like XCOM, and the sounds of fighting with gigant robots sounds exciting to you, then pick this up. Won't dissapoint you.

This i an excellent adaptation of the original table top game. Very well done, fun to play, and mostly bug free. Worst bu is hat you cannot have too many save games or it will slow down the game's loading process for everything. Easy fix: delete your old saves, try to keep it to 4 or less, including other character files.

Poorly done game

Pretty good, brings back a lot of mechwarrior and battletech nostolgia. Missing some of my favorite mechs due to liscensing issues, but I can't hold that against it. Story is alright, so far nothing amazing. Gameplay is great, really addictive one more turn action. Load times are borderline annoying, I got spoiled with my SSD but this game still loads slow. I've had a few crashes to desktop while alt-tabbing during loading screens. No fullscreen-windowed mode, just fullscreen and windowed. Gameplay itself is smooth. Decent game, looking forward to playing more of it.