I for one, really like them and I'm not sure where the hate comes from. So please consider playing the game and deciding for yourself. I do understand there are purists out there who would rather the game stay 'vanilla'. It would be nice to have an option to disable the changes for those people, but there are mods to do so now I believe. The engine improvements are great, good enough that I would consider playing this and modding it to be vanilla over playing it vanilla and modding it for a more modern engine. But both are options if you buy this, as you get the original releases as well. There is also the open source engine GemRB, which is worth looking at. So there is no shortage of options for playing the game the way you want. Just my 2 cents. I like Beamdog and what they are doing for these games and Neverwinter Nights.
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.
