MechWarrior surprise!

Peter Gill (Buddy J)

July 9, 2009 3:00 PM ET in News, , , , ,

The announcement of a new MechWarrior game totally blindsided us today like a well-placed Death from Above strike. It seems Smith & Tinker and Piranha Games are working on a full reboot of the MechWarrior games. For a property that’s changed hands as much as MechWarrior/BattleTech, it’s easy to roll your eyes and pass this off as another rumored game that’ll never see the light of day. But the trailer says otherwise. The trailer says it’s nothing short of AWESOME.

IGN got the exclusive interview with the folks behind this bad boy, so for an in-depth look at where they’re headed you can read on here. With the reboot, they’ve been able to take technology back a few steps. No longer will players just hit the “find nearest target” button and circle-strafe to see who can blow their opponent’s leg off first. Instead, lance operations will require actual recon in urban environments, changing the dynamic of the gameplay and making things a little grittier than before.

Expect four-player co-op modes and LAN play. Expect awesome graphics with the new Unreal 3 Engine. And expect quite a few Icrontic members to fall headfirst again into one of the most enduring and beloved games of all-time.

Also, since there will be a wait for the new game to come out, MechWarrior 4 and all it’s expansions will become free downloads in coming days. You’ll find them at MekTek.net soon.

5 Comments

  1. 9 Jul '09, 11:14 pm Gargoyle

    Free Mechwarrior 4? Sweet! I recently stumbled across a couple of "mech pack" CDs, but I have no idea where my core game CDs went off to.

  2. 10 Jul '09, 12:10 am jokerz4fun

    ZOMG I cant wait!!!!! I used to play the OG Mech back in the day!!!!OOOOHHHHHH MAN

  3. 10 Jul '09, 12:30 am pseudonym

    Make my Steel Battalion controller compatible damnit!!

  4. 10 Jul '09, 2:31 am UPSLynx

    Oh

    My

    Lord.

    I didn't realize there were so many 'mech hardcores in Icrontic. This pleases me greatly.

    Grimnoc and I used to play the tabletop, it was good times until one of our college friends effed up our battle in progress board. ...Ian Hicks is such a jerk.

    I bleed Battletech. Played the tabletop, played all the games, read the novels, have the toys (every last one of them), watched the animated series (remember that groundbreaking computer animation for the battle sequences?)

    I cannot wait for this game. I don't expect this to be the sim I knew and loved with MW3, but I do expect it to be AWESOME.

    When that Atlas appeared, it gave me goosebumps. This is so good, I was actually thinking about how much I'd like to see a current gen MW game about a week ago, but knew it would never happen.

    Glad I'm wrong.

  5. 10 Jul '09, 2:36 pm Winfrey

    It's about time somebody picked this franchise up! It has been too long since my last mechwarrior fix.

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