Video Games

Great game (2008-10-21)
This is a really good game, I enjoyed MW4 and MW4 BK, but Mercenaries is just like MW2 I still have MW2,maybe nobody here has played it before but it brings me memories :)

If you like blowing up other robots and armies (2008-05-30)
This software is really cool, it has more than one CD/DVD that is XP compatible. It works with some Vista but you have to run as administrator to really get it to work. I hope to see it re-released in a form for the next windows in 2010. It is graphics heavy and takes up a lot of space. I suggest putting it on an auxillary drive and having an icon on your desktop to keep down the hard disc usage. If you have ever read any of these books and wished you could get into a battlemech this might be your chance,

Childhood Memory (2008-03-18)
I'd like to first start off by Saying that a Joystick is almost required to have a Rewarding Experience here.

I remember I got this game for the holidays from my mother the Year it came out. I had to have been 12 years old. I wanted it because my sister's boyfriend gave me his copy of Mechwarrior 3 and I never put it down. I played this game a lot. TO me this was the best Series in Gaming history. Vengeance was probably the best online game of it's time community and stability wise, there was very little glitching taking place, never heard of anyone hacking, and from what I hear this is still the case. Single player in Vengeance was decent, the FMV cutscenes were a joke, the story line was Inner-Sphere based, which I didn't enjoy too much at all. However if you just focussed on the combat, the game was perfect.

I got the Black Knight expansion the day it came out, I wasn't quite as impressed, there were way too many Escort Missions where you had to protect convoys. But the Multiplayer was the same thing as before with New Mechs, which were great additions to gameplay especially Team play liek Capture the flag. they actually removed 2 gametypes I believe of Black Knight. Attriction and Team Attriction. The scoring system of the game type never really made a lot of sense anyhow. It was based on the Damage you did, and not kills. So I believe you were down to Death Match, Team Death Match, King of the Hill, Team King of the Hill, and Capture the flag. There might have been another game type like Rabbit or something, I remember it vaguely it's been years. But it was still the Fun I remembered though I still primarily played Vegeance, because a lot of clan members were from Eastern European countries and had pirated versions of the original game, and couldn't run Black Knight, it's worth it if you know people that play it.

The Clan and Inner Sphere Mech Paks aren't Included with this Box, but buy them if you intend to have a decent time in Mercenaries.

Mercenaries is where Perfection was Reached, even without the Mech Paks if you were a good pilot you still had tons of fun. Mercs is stand alone to the original and BK has all the Mechs of both of those, and the Single PLayer in it offers almost Unlimited Depth and Replayablility. You chose what Missions you wanted, your price, ect. THe Multiplayer in Mercs got alittle weird, as there weren't a lot of Original Build servers out there, a lot of people Disappointed with the cancelation of Mechwarrior 5 joined modding teams with Mektek which was a 3rd Party site that upgraded Mercenaries, which added new Mechs and weapons to the game as well as gametypes. I believe that project is now dead, and there's been a return of classic Servers recently. I plan on Reinstalling this game as soon as I get ahold of a decent Joystick since my old ForceFeadback x2 is apparently not compatible with Windows XP.

Husband seems to love it, perhaps a little too much for my liking . . . (2007-09-30)
Based on how much my husband apparently enjoys playing this game, I think it probably deserves five stars. He doesn't seem to ever get tired of it and there is also this "online" feature where you can play interactively with others on the internet. It appears to be one of his favourite games for the PC, besides Star Trek Klingon Academy.

MechWarrior 4 Review (2007-05-12)
I got this game and expected it to be similar to the other Mech Warrior games in the series. The only thing that is really the same was the controls. The gameplay is smooth and enjoyable and the later versions have better graphics and gameplay options. You have the ability to customize your mech as you see fit, the options are nearly unlimited as to what you can do with it. There is online game play as well, the servers are free, but sometimes they are short of players.