This is the most disappointing game I've played and will play in 2018. Let's just get to the bullet points, since I don't want to take too much time. Pros: - New BattleTech game for all the starved fans - Management sphere is good, as long as it works (and when it doesn't, enjoy mercs with constant low morale or mechs with no armor). tl;dr, the game lacks variety and you will get bored before you'll finish the main story. There's simply not enough content to keep you interested and more likely than not, you'll encounter a bug that will make your game impossible to complete anyway. Cons: - Gameplay is purely RNG based - Missions are very repetitive and sometimes buggy - Only 4 mechs under command, severely limiting the tactical options available - Game takes place in years where technology isn't too advanced - low amount of weapons and mechs available - Story is laughable and you have zero control over anything - Many inconsistencies and idiotic things in the story - Characters are extremely bland and uninteresting - Unimpressive graphics that kills your CPU and GPU - game is poorly optimized - Camera works in a very predictable manner - it will almost always pan away from the action, so you have to manually inspect your mechs to see who got hit and where - Completing a turn requires you to sit through extremely long animations coupled with waiting times - this makes the game drag on forever - I could probably go on and on, but that's not really the point in this case. Fun fact - the previous review I submitted wasn't accepted, for some reason. Way to treat a backer who believed in you from day 1!
There's a lot of small and big problems with the game, so here's a list - Tablet/phone game UI makes it feel like it was ported straight from iOS - The story, setting and characters are all uninteresting and bland - Meme/political humor that contains just references and no good jokes on its own - Combat is extremely repetitive - you do the same thing over and over - Weapons feel more or less the same and you just compare a few numbers - Speaking of numbers, there are a lot of unexplained statistics in the inventory that I didn't really understood - Maps are repetitive, there's nothing interesting in them - Your primary resource when going into a mission are medkits. And you usually can't even buy them, so you usually lose the war of attrition that the game turns into - Battles are completely disconnected from the regular exploring - no kiting, no positioning, just shoot the enemy while they shoot you Pros: + Music! + It's a crawler, there's not a lot of them + It's fun the first few hours
