Damn, I was hoping for Mech Assault 3.

The teaser clips look so good. Even though MW3 and 4 were good, I want em to go back to the MW2 roots. Particularly some Clan campaigns with some good 'ol Trials of Grievances and for rank. The Battletech universe is so huge they have so many options on what period to set the story in. I've always thought it would be interesting to put a game in the period of the Star League right before Kerensky took them SLDF and left the IS. Old-ass Mech designs.

I was initially so pumped when they announced Mech Assault but those are so restricting and butchering with regard to the source material.

Also for the love of god let Jeehun Hwang do the freakin soundtrack.

Finally yes. I really hope this is more like the old PC games that had full customization with heat sinks and weapon load outs. Added a whole lot of depth to mech squad combat on the type of mech you used. I was really upset when they stopped developing for the PC back then for the Mech Assault series. Was more of an action game than a tactical simulator, which personally for me, hurt the franchise. Merceneries 2 and 4 were a blast.

So...
It's like Transformers and the next gen Front Mission?
I never thought i would say this, but i hope they innovate about giant robots, i didn't play the originals MechWarriors so i hope this game surprises me.

I'm a level designer for [url="http://www.mechlivinglegends.net"]Mechwarrior: Living Legends[/url], and this announcement to me felt kind of like a rick roll without the rick astley.

I know you guys don't cover mods but we're about to release our own trailer here very soon, using real in-game footage (the trailer for MW5, while runing inside the engine was entirely scripted/setup).

Personally I'm very skeptical of this. First of all they seem pretty obsessed that the graphics are what's going to make the next game good and make you feel like you are in a mech, when in reality the older mech games already did that simply via the simulation aspect.

The other thing that worries me is that the trailer just looked like an arcady first-person mechassault. Mechwarrior was always about simulation, and frankly that sim part is going to have to be axed in order for the game to possibly work on the 360's control scheme.

Not saying it's a bad game but I don't think you guys should be expecting it to be just as good if not better than MW3+4 in terms of the simulation gameplay really making you feel like a mech-pilot.

CLAN JADE FALCON!

There was a day when I could tell you the model name of the mechs on sight.

Sadly, the franchise has been dead so long, I can't do that anymore... But needless to say, I'm stoked!

The gameplay itself is pretty tried and true... You run around big landscapes in a giant walking tank, shooting weapons and various things. As long as the objectives make sense and the level designers do a good job with keeping a tense pace during the right times, it'll win my heart easily. Which means then it becomes a matter of graphics which this trailer states will be pretty fucking awesome. (Though, you need to take it with a grain of salt, teaser trailers especially use great looking CGI when the actual gameplay itself doesn't quite look like it.)

about time! The 2nd one killed a franchise that had been around for YEARS! Time to rent Crash and Burn to get all fired up

More like MehchWarrior, right?

I thought I would never ever see another MechWarrior game. Crossing my fingers it's more akin to MechWarrior than MechAssault.

@Dexter
hahahahahaha

Never played Mechwarrior so this should be interesting.

@Dexter
You have not been enlightened by how amazing Mechwarrior is.
Though the new one... it's made by the same people who made the Transformer's movie games. I'm trying to keep my hopes down, in the large possibility the game will suck.

As someone who loves the original mechwarrior games as well as the mech assault games, I good care less how it plays as long as its FUN. Bonus points if they come out with a controller even bigger than Steel Battalion's.

I Remember playing the hell out of the original VGA Vector Graphics game on my old PC near 20 years ago. It was awesome. However, it was not as awesome as the original tabletop game. No Mech video game I have ever played has beat the old FASA Ruleset. I saw a new tabletop version at my FRPS the other day. Maybe I should look into getting into it again.

They better have all the classic Battletech mechs (many of which were copied from the anime Super Dimension Fortress Macross (aka 1/3 of Robotech), as this is the closest I can get to playing a new english Macross/Robotech game.

OMG, now what did I do with that left handed thrustmaster I'd mapped the leg movement and all the radar controls to?

Alpha Strike Motherfuckers!