Posted on: September 30, 2021
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Verified ownerGames: 229 Reviews: 21
Not bad for cheap, otherwise...
I got this game for free; it certainly isn't worth a $30 price tag. People comparing it unfavorably to Battletech or Mechwarrior are attempting to compare disposable razors to combine harvesters. It's a fun little arcade style "destroy everything" game, and it's certainly no challenge to destroy everything on a map. In fact, that's probably the biggest downfall: there is no challenge to this game once you master the somewhat odd steering mechanism (the devs call it "WASD", but it does not perform as you'd expect from that description, and the driving mechanic could literally have been operated by ANY four keys--using W, A, S and D confuses the issue because this is not played like an FPS). The game takes minutes to master, and after that there's really no challenge no matter what you do. The AI simply isn't capable of doing tremendous damage to you, but YOU are to it. You can infinitely replay any mission, and the maps and AI loadouts for each are always the same, so the "roguelite" description is completely inappropriate. Customization is non-existent, you graduate to slightly more capable war machines, but loadouts for each are not customizable, and you can't choose among "unlocked" mechs, you're simply assigned one for each mission. You earn igc for everything you do, but it's not clear what you're meant to spend this on, as there are no options you can purchase. There's no real story, just a static graphical NPC face and text "explaining" something about a revolution, and you work for... well, it's not clear whether you work for the government or the rebellion, but again the goal of the game is to destroy everything. Trying to discern a logical plot in this is probably a complete waste of time. Graphics are fairly decent, but don't expect photo-realism or even anything "modern" looking because this looks like an arcade console game from about 2001.
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