Mech Warrior is back!

[Die Hard]

It's not looking promising, but I guess it's a start...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvv92DlS3uo&feature=related

 

[vonKrimm]

It's not looking promising, but I guess it's a start...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvv92DlS3uo&feature=related

 

Ready the harpoon gun Zack!

[Grayeagle]

It was Mechcommander instead of Mechwarrior, but i think it had the best intro of all the games. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MQPWE_M_EM&feature=related

enjoy.

Excellent .. thanks for postin . . It's all about tactical .. they could make such killer movies based on all the war stories out there .. how the Grey Death Legion began, ..etc .. soo many good stories it would take years to tell them all.

And aye .. Kesmai licensed the Unreal engine for mechwarrior .. kelton was workin on his own engine for AW with fluid dynamics incorporated for flight modeling ..I worked with him on NACA wing shapes to get the data for the planes .. took a huge poly count and the shape had to be right on per NACA data to generate all the collection points . . would have been a huge step into 'simulation' and away from 'gaming'

-GE

[Dux]

Funny how similar (yet different) all these are. My first computer came bundled with Heavy Gear 1 so that's where my personal loyalties lie. I always thought the Mechwarrior designs looked kinda blockish and dorky in comparison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bafq8-a1CkU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlbJCwWsJEk&NR=1

Still... giant robots is giant robots. Can't go wrong either way.
I'd love to see a game in this genre done really well. The new MW just might be pretty cool.

[WilldCrd]

ya know its strange, just the other day I was thinking that they should make a new mechwarrior game...its been too long and today I find this thread!
I'm very excited! Im a die-hard fan of mech warrior, MW3 being my favorite!

Aside from all the details that moot and diehard are disagreeing about, I love the game. IMNSHO any true fans wont care about the kinematics, or the other stuff. It's just a teaser trailer and even that has awesome details. It's been 10 long years since we had a mech warrior game and for the love of the game i'm stoked! If all the realism stuff was in there as moot would like then I doubt most pc's could even run it and thats IF the technology is advanced enough to do it.
Either way I dont care! I love the game, the immersion, the story all of it. It looks better than 3, way better than 4 (which was a step back if ya ask me). I just wanna play the game! I hope the campaign is as good or better than 3 and after that bring on the PVP!! I can't wait. wonder if they have any beta tester openings...hell i'd evn pay to do it....NOT lol

EDIT: Im not agreeing with either Moot or diehard, For most of us its for the love of the game, we would biotch if it was some dorky looking old arcade looing game with jagged lines really hokey graficks but, we would still play it. It all about the love of the game and the story

[AKP]

Wow... this brings back memories.  The last MW game I played was Mechwarrior 2, Mercenaries.  And we played on DIALUP, and if I not mistaken... it was made for LAN, not internet... so we had to run it through the old KALI servers.  Used to play the original Red Alert and Warcraft on Kali back then too.

Anybody here remember playing on Kali?

[Die Hard]

Funny how similar (yet different) all these are. My first computer came bundled with Heavy Gear 1 so that's where my personal loyalties lie. I always thought the Mechwarrior designs looked kinda blockish and dorky in comparison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bafq8-a1CkU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlbJCwWsJEk&NR=1

Still... giant robots is giant robots. Can't go wrong either way.
I'd love to see a game in this genre done really well. The new MW just might be pretty cool.

Yeah, Heavy Gear was awesome. The computer game was a direct port of the Mech Warrior 2 engine, and it was annoyingly obvious. I still loved the game though with its rich story line. However it was funny looking at infantry as small ants on the ground when the Gear I was in shouldn't be much taller than a single story building. The Gears should have behaved more like power-armor than mechs, just like they do in the videos.

[Grayeagle]

gameshapes to scale, MPBT 3025  .. -sigh- .. would have loved to run my Jenner

-GE

[Die Hard]

It's still possible to play Battletech in pods:

www.mechcorps.com

I may have to look them up!

[Ack-Ack]

gameshapes to scale, MPBT 3025  .. -sigh- .. would have loved to run my Jenner

-GE

I loved the Jenner in MPBT 3025, those jump jets made fights really fun.

ack-ack

[68Hawk]

I can't wait for this game to come out!!!

From the brief intro video, looks like they've got some good stuff so far, but I'm sure they have a long way to go, and development could take the game in many directions.

I really like how they talk about accentuating the roles of different classes of mechs so that there will be a really good reason to have a good light mech pilot around instead of just stacking everything into heavier mechs with bigger guns.  If they go the right way with things like that, imagine what they might do with sensors and comms, with scouting potential, with heat dissipation and other aspects of mech operation.  Tactics could totally change, but the up close fights as depicted in the short vid would still be a slugout. 

I'm not going to be able to sleep until I get to play this...

[Treize69]

Is there a good website where they have the story/history of the mechwarrior universe posted at?  While I've played a couple of the games off and on I never really delved into the back story too much but I'm a little intrigued to learn more at this point.

If you want to try the Classic Era novels, I'd suggest starting with the Warrior Trilogy, originally published in the 80s but reissued several times. En Garde, Riposte, and Coupe. Theres earlier novels, but those three are when the universe really got rolling.

[Treize69]

HEY, guess what? MechWarrior might be taking longer to launch than anticipated. Why? Because they've been handed an immediate cease and desist order to stop work on the game. Why again?

Because the Warhammer looks like a Warhammer! The company that owns the rights to Robotech/Macross is, once again, laying the smack down on BT fans for the fact that the design of the Warhammer was based on their own original design (even though the one used in the trailer is most definitely not the same one they originally used back in the '80s).

You've got to be kidding me, a TV show that has been out of production for twenty years is going to interfere with a product thats still going strong after over a quarter of a century? Can't they just let them license the design and get over the fact that another company was inspired by something they created and turned it into something 10x better??

[Ack-Ack]

It's about the $$$.


ack-ack

[whiteman]

HEY, guess what? MechWarrior might be taking longer to launch than anticipated. Why? Because they've been handed an immediate cease and desist order to stop work on the game. Why again?

Because the Warhammer looks like a Warhammer! The company that owns the rights to Robotech/Macross is, once again, laying the smack down on BT fans for the fact that the design of the Warhammer was based on their own original design (even though the one used in the trailer is most definitely not the same one they originally used back in the '80s).

You've got to be kidding me, a TV show that has been out of production for twenty years is going to interfere with a product thats still going strong after over a quarter of a century? Can't they just let them license the design and get over the fact that another company was inspired by something they created and turned it into something 10x better??

TV production might have ended 20 years ago but they still sell a ton of Robotech & Macross stuff. When they came back out with the Mech I bought a few that i had when i was a kid.