Besides the new power armor, you're also given several opportunities to use more traditional vehicles such as tanks and a VTOL. The game mechanic itself is easy to use, requiring you to hit a series of buttons on the controller within a certain period of time. Not only is this a potent combat ability, completely disabling a successfully targeted mech, but it allows you to enter and control the hacked mech if you choose. The tiny mech handles just like the larger constructs, and has some impressive armament for its size, but the big draw of the tiny suit is the ability to "Neurohack" your way into full-sized mechs. The big difference comes in the form of the the compact "Elemental" style power armor. If you've played through the first MechAssault title, you've basically experienced everything that MechAssault 2 has to offer. In fact, that statement is the basis of all of the issues with the MechAssault 2 experience. Players who have played through the previous title will start to glaze over during the tutorial, though, as the controls are almost exactly identical to those in the original game. There's no need for plot or motivation before you start blowing things up. This puts you directly into the action, a nice choice. You're given the chance to run through a tutorial session while simultaneously repelling a hostile force. Loading out the mech components via by filling in little dots using a number 2 pencil back in the day was completely different from the fun of playing modern video games, but there is still an element of that obscurely vicious pastime in the MechAssault series of today.Īt kickoff, MechAssault 2 puts you in the role of a Mechwarrior as he and and his crew find themselves in a hostile situation.
While the online gaming component delivers satisfying multiplayer action, and the single-player campaign manages to shake things up a little bit, the title overall seems much like a clone of the original MechAssault.Īs a table-top gamer, my fondness for the Battletech and MechAssault games is rooted in the lead figurines and hexagonal maps of the original game. The original MechAssault title was one of these, and Day 1 Studios attempts to recreate the magic with the title MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf.
Read on for my analysis of these two titles.in spaaaaaaaaace.įast-paced action gaming isn't a rarity on the Xbox, but there are a few titles that stand out in the crowd.
Both games are well conceived, with fine pedigrees behind them, but neither manages to deliver satisfying gameplay or long-termĮnjoyment. Both MechAssault 2 and Nexus: The Jupiter Incident are examples of this truism. Unfortunately, futuristic titles can be just as tiresome as Dungeon Crawl #457. Spacefaring races always seem to get into trouble, and game designers love to put us into the shoes of the explorers and soldiers of tomorrow.
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