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Mech Assault Review
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If you're a long time fan of Mechwarrior and were thrilled to see this title hit Xbox like I was, I think you were pleasantly surprised upon playing this! Now I'm not as die hard a follower of the Mechwarrior titles as some people and I've only played a few here and there including Mechcommander 2. I think some people who were really into the PC version of this game will be slightly disappointed in a few things. The control and views of the Mech are a little dumbed down for the users; I think this has more to do with controller limitations because there's no keyboard. The second major difference is you can only use in game stock Mechs during the campaign. You can't customize any of them unfortunately. However, if you can get over these changes I think you will still have fun with the game.
I felt like Mechassault had a bit more of a cogent story line than some of the other Mechwarrior titles. In Mechassault you are playing the role of a member of the Wolf Dragoons and you've been commissioned to infiltrate a planet controlled by the Word of Blake. For some reason I never felt like I had this precise of a purpose in Mechwarrior game before. The campaign mode is pretty much a solo mission where you have to do everything on your own; unfortunately you don't get any help from another group of Dragoons, even though you hear about reports of them fighting in other parts of the planet. The new stock Mech designs are actually pretty cool along with some old favorites and I did like using most of them. The favorite Mech called the Atlas is available in this game as well, but I found myself using the Timberwolf a lot when I played this game through a second time. Although, I think I favored the MadCat IV my first time through and I outright hate the Summoner. You do get lots of Mechs to choose from so I'm sure any Mechwarrior can find their favored machine to use. Unfortunately there are a couple missions where you are forced to fight with a specific Mech, this is alright because it's only for like two missions worth.
The graphics and environment are quite awesome. The graphics are pretty comparable to the Mechwarrior IV game for the PC. While I have seen better graphics on other Xbox games, I felt these were decent enough for Mechassault. The environment you get to interact with is really awesome though. You can destroy anything to your hearts little desire. Even though you're trying to save the people of the planet from the Word of Blake faction... you can still destroy all their houses and cities in the process! One major downfall of this game is the saving function. There is no mid-mission save ability. If you do not complete the mission you fail and thus have to restart the mission. This is incredibly annoying if the mission is kind of long. This happened to me a couple times; I made it to the final part of the mission to essentially fight the boss Mech and was destroyed at the very last part. I had to restart the mission in order to get back to where I left off which took another hour of game play. While I'm not complaining about a game being challenging, I'm complaining that as a user I don't have save options which is really annoying not to have.
Overall I think this game was quite a lot of fun with a better story line to follow as well. There are a few things I would change here and there, but they are technically minor over all. I've enjoyed Mechs and Battletech stuff ever since I was a little kid, being able to enjoy this on Xbox was a lot of fun for me. I have to spend a lot of time in front of a computer for my job, so being able to have this in a console format when I don't want to play a computer game was great fun!
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This is the Platinum Hits online enabled version - 
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Mech Assault Review
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The photo of the game is misleading, this is the platinum hits online enabled version if you buy it new from Amazon. I was looking specifically for the original version.
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Mech Assault Review
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Game sounds good and looks pretty good too. Not as good as some games, but it is an older game. Game play is sweet fun with lots of stuff to destroy and humans to step on.
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Amazingly fun - I miss it now -
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Mech Assault Review
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Was a truly amazing experience on the XBOX. Harkens the days to Battletech goodness. Showed off what the original Xbox could do.
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Mech Assault Review
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this is a fun game if your inti the mechs the graphics are good but like the first halo game type the difficulty level are weak to easy to kill stuff but expert setting there only like 7 mechs and then varients of those ones that just have differnet weapons loadout the multiplayer is good but not great
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