http://usercreated.org/2010/04/16/2010/04/14/unmissable-mods-month-mechwarrior-living-legends/http://usercreated.org/2010/04/16/the-complete-unmissable-mods-month/Pretty interesting read, well done guys
Unmissable Mods Month: Mechwarrior: Living Legends
Posted on April 14th, 2010 Thomas Senior 3 comments
Mods, as we all know, are brilliant. They can break the rules and create something new, they can take a flawed game and make it brilliant or invent new whole new genres. Sometimes, in the case of Mechwarrior: Living Legends, they can even bring old games back from the dead, bigger and better than they were before.
There was tremendous excitement when Crytek announced they were going out of their way to make the Crysis modder-friendly. But, years after release, the potential of the gorgeous and powerful CryEngine 2 had hardly been utilised, until last year, when Living Legends stomped onto the scene in a giant robot and vapourised all of its competitors with a particle cannon to take the Best Multiplayer gong in the Mod DB awards.
Living Legends stays mechanically and aesthetically faithful to the original Mechwarrior series. With location based damage, overheating components, mech repair and weapon grouping, the fantasy sim elements of the original games are faithfully recreated. Living Legends takes these old school sim mechanics and merges them seamlessly with a deep and distinctly contemporary multiplayer experience that draws on elements of Battlefield and Crysis’ original, underplayed multiplayer mode to give us a gorgeous and explosive cocktail of robot death that successfully remakes the old games in a newer, shiner image.
The guns are massive and the robots look and feel great, with designs faithfully drawn from the original walkers, but there’s one thing that really makes Living Legends especially spectacular: the colossal battlefields. From torrid, volcanic climes, home to magma flows and mountains of granite, to desert locales that see you charging your mech around pyramids, or around alien worlds sailing through asteroid belts, Living Legends is as beautiful as it is challenging, and a credit to the enormous talent of those who have worked so hard to create it.
If a new official Mechwarrior sequel were to be released tomorrow, I’m sceptical it could come close to modernising and reinventing the series as effectively as Living Legends, a fact that justifies pride of place on our Unmissable Mods list.
Why is it on our list?
Living Legends remakes a classic and delivers a superb new multiplayer experience, killing two birds with one superheated lazerblast.
Get if from
The official site
Easy to Install?
Couldn’t be simpler. The download at the link above is an .exe file that unzips Living Legend’s files straight into your Crysis directory.
