Brigador: Up-Armored Edition

Right off the bat this game disconnects you from the world and lore by having your first campaign mission forever sever your ties with a faction you know nothing about. What does that mean? Who are you playing as? What are you doing? The game doesn't think its important to explain any of this. It has a campaign that does absolutely nothing to ground you to your pilots or the conflict your in, and sometimes doesn't even explain the mission your doing which I guess is fine... because all the missions are essentially kill things with icons above them. It begs the question of why they bothered having a campaign to begin with, since it acts as a long, annoying tutorial mission... err, GAUNTLET because its 50 missions or so long. This could have been easily avoided by having you pick a pilot you liked and gain funds from missions to buy newer and cooler gear as you progress... but they didn't do that, not even in Freelance mode which is where your supposed to spend most of your time. Pilots are treated as game difficulty/rewards modifiers, nothing more. You don't feel like your playing as the pilot, you don't feel like a mercenary in a war torn conflict. It feels like a series of near identical missions because that's what it is. Combat ranges from fun when things are going your way, to flat out irritating when your stuck with the wrong tools for the job: Fleeing from swarms of kamikaze drones and getting stuck on terrain, to plinking away with the most embarrassing side guns when your main canon is out of ammo. The game encourages you to play with underpowered vehicles to earn more rewards in Freelance mode so you'll be tempted to increase your frustration levels throughout the game. Even when I threw up my hands and went heavy every match I didn't particular care for the controls and gameplay which is basically a deal braker for this game, as its all gameplay.

Civilians net you 50 dollars per one splattered on concrete. You know the game is good, so as to make sure more people know, there is an active modding community, and it is most active on the developers Discord. The link to it is directly in the game so if you feel lacking in weaponry or whatever ever else your heart desires, click it and anyone will be willing to help you set your game up to mod.

Stomp your way through a city in which every building can be pounded into rubble, and probably will be during the next frantic firefight. Raze it all. Laugh at the little people scurrying about. You are the war god. You are a BIG ROBOT.

An isometric shooter with a good variety of mech and vehicles, excellent soundtrack and total destructibility of the environments. The story is non-existent and just serves as an intro for each mission, which is always search and destroy with pre builded mechs. But there's only one problem: the controls... You have to press "W+D" (or "W+A") to go straight, which makes controlling the mechs tedious and leads to mission failure (we are not indestructible terminators, we could have terminal failures or finish ammo). And this makes the gameplay extremely tedious... I mean, I understand putting the isometric view at 3/4, but to simply move the mech forward all you should had only to press the "W" key alone

Kino