Its alright. I was really hoping for just something like gauntlet 2 but prettier. Cartoony even. This looks like diablo unfortunately. But it plays enough like Gauntlet that I get a little nostagic feel now and again.
Havent put that much time in yet, but it seems ok to me.
This is a very faithful interpretation of the FASA boardgame. That alone earns it 4 stars. There has not been a more faithful adaptation since the freeware/shareware Mechforce for the old Commodore Amiga. There are some problems though. The Unseen. If you have played Battletech for any length of time you already know about them so I won't go into detail suffice to say that every 'mech looks like a clan 'mech and pretty much the same as every other mech. If you are a new player then it won't bother you- move along citizen. I'm sure a modder could fix this over a weekend. That is a mod I sorely desire. The other thing is "hardpoints" this limits mech customization to a huge degree. You cannot build something as basic as a three medium laser Locust because there are specific hardpoints where only specific weapons can be mounted. These hardpoints cannot be changed no matter how skilled your techs are. This is an app killer for me. Half of the enjoyment of Battletech is customizing your personal 'mech into outlandish configurations to suit the mission you're on, or just to fit your play style. This will hopefully be addressed by the modding community also because that creativity-stifling awfulness has gotta go. One last nitpick. You can't control which melee attacks you use (no punch, punch, kick either- you get one single attack), and machine guns, small lasers, and flamers only trigger (automatically) when you use melee attacks. A minor annoyance considering everything else, but still there is no reason for it to be that way if the goal was to make a faithful adaptation of the boardgame.
