Favourite Mechwarrior game to date?

[Macca1088]

Hey guys. I have been playing a bit of mechwarrior3 lately and I actually find it much better that its predecessor Mechwarrior 4. In terms of both graphics and gameplay....Surprisingly.

But this is just my personal opinions. What do you guys think is the best Mechwarrior game... What was the first you played?

[Grovesy]

First 'mech' game, would be Battletech Crescent Hawks Revenge... think I was 8 at the time,
First Mechwarrior game would be the original by Activision in 89. I remember enjoying the small adventure part of the game and the fact that the game was 'endless', something that annoyed me about the other 2 merc games.

The one I enjoyed the most would be Mechwarrior II Mercs... I love the other Mech2 games, but I remember the story line was linear, couldn't move on until you completed the previous mission.. And for some reason I didn't like playing the Clans.

[Defender]

Mechwarrior 3 was by far my favorite Mechwarrior game ever.
Good graphics, good gameplay, made it's predecessor look like saturday morning gimped cartoon garbage. Mech2 Mercs was pretty good too, I liked the music, atmosphere and the pre-rendered areas.

[(TLL)KitLightning]

MECHWARRIOR 4 MERCENARY   for one thing only ... SOLARIS ARENA .
 
MECHWARRIOR 3   for having the best gameplay. It had by all, the best ops info, i.e. mission describtion. And also the best way of commanding the Lancemates in the game. I think the 3D models are better in MW3 than MW4M, ect.

MECHWARRIOR 2 MERCENARY   for having a balanced economy, when playing as a  Mercenary. And the best music! But having Vector Graphics it dos not hold in the length.

So, the best of them all must be MECHWARRIOR 3 !!!

[Landros Radick]

Mech3 is still has quite a bit of technical detail superiority over MWLL and MW4. MW4 felt like a step backwards in terms of details..

[Chaoswolf]

i deny you all!'

Mechwarrior 2: 31st century combat... the BEST MW game to date... he the campaign was dynamic and fun... and the graphics... tho dated still hold their own

[Skydance]

Only played one.

Back when everyone was playing MW2, through to MW3, I was playing other games. Picked up MW4 because it was the last of a dying breed. There were only two big vehicular shooters at the time, Comanche 4 (I think) and Mechwarrior 4. I picked the sci-fi one. The graphics weren't great even 8 years ago, but the gameplay was alright.

[korsen]

Man they're all great games... I'd say MW2:Mercs just because of the real merc-style play. MW4:Mercs is just a poor attempt at a recreation IMO.

[ToeBall]

Sorry guys, I'll have to go with MW:LL... it's the first one where the vehicles and battle armor are as important as the mechs instead of just an annoyance.

[PanzerBoxb]

Well, not all of us have the ability to play that yet, ToeBall! 

[ToeBall]

Sorry, but all this work needs to have some rewards... join the team and you can play as much as you can stand, for testing purposes, of course.

[Defender]

Sorry, but all this work needs to have some rewards... join the team and you can play as much as you can stand, for testing purposes, of course.

In summary; GET SUM USEFUL SKILLZ N U CAN TEST TOO WHILE BEING A SLAVE TO T3H MACHINE!!!

[=KoS=Zeus]

I prefer a lot of what they did with MW:4 mercenaries, specifically the balancing of weapons. 

All previous mechwarrior games simply translated the stats straight from the board game and then let you shoot them much faster than once per 10 seconds like it is in the board game.  This made ER Medium Lasers the most powerful weapons in the game.  By adjusting the damage of the weapons based on board game stats and then modified by refire rates, they made previously unused weapons (like the AC/5) a dangerous weapon.

But, all mech games to date have suffered from the same problem and have failed to address it, and that is the pinpoint accuracy of an alpha strike.  The random hit chart from the board game has a lot to do with the survivability of a battlemech, but in the mechwarrior games if you point and click at the center torso, then you dump everything into the center torso.  MW4 alleviated some of the instant death by making it impossible to kill a mech with one shot (need at least 2), but it still does little to solve the problem of jump snipers armed to the teeth with ER Large Lasers and Gauss Rifles.

Mechwarrior 4 is at the head of the class in my book, despite the step back in graphics from the grittier MW3.  You can play with 24 people in a server, and that's some serious mech action.  Can't wait for MW:LL with 32 total.

[paul1290]

It still surprises me how good Mechwarrior 3 looks considering how old it is, especially the textures on the mechs.

They must have spent a lot of time on Mechwarrior 3's textures since they're so darn good that they almost completely covered up how blocky the models really were.

[(TLL)KitLightning]

Sorry guys, I'll have to go with MW:LL... it's the first one where the vehicles and battle armor are as important as the mechs instead of just an annoyance.

Thats cheatinī ... MW:LL dosnīt count, yet, that it hasnīt reach the masses!