Been playing for the past week. PGI listened to the MW5 Mercs feedback and responded with arguably the richest, most lore accurate, story ever in the BattleTech universe (perhaps minus the 2018 HBS game that, unlike this game, actually warrants a comparison to XCOM).
There are some serious problems. Performance issues abound, difficulty spikes are rough, and there are numerous questionable UI decisions. The "gorgeous facial animations" are stuck in this uncanny valley because I bet they were animated with AI. However, for people that grew up with these games, witnessed the CODifization of them with MechAssault and had to wait decades before they returned it to its roots, it is absolutely worth your time to stomp around lobbing PPCs with your buddies in coop mode (a long forgotten concept few modern games seem to care about that might have been worth mentioning).
Comparing this game to XCOM because there is a minimap is insane, and comparing this game to Armored Core is like comparing Civilization to Age of Empires. This is a good game, with proper HOTAS support, for us simulation fanatics that with time and investment from the developers (and modding community) can become a great game (like Mercs became years after its initial release).
Unless of course more sites publish asinine reviews from reviewers that clearly have no understanding of the franchise they're reviewing.
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Re: Mini Review: MechWarrior 5: Clans (PS5) - An Obsolete Model
Awful review.
Been playing for the past week. PGI listened to the MW5 Mercs feedback and responded with arguably the richest, most lore accurate, story ever in the BattleTech universe (perhaps minus the 2018 HBS game that, unlike this game, actually warrants a comparison to XCOM).
There are some serious problems. Performance issues abound, difficulty spikes are rough, and there are numerous questionable UI decisions. The "gorgeous facial animations" are stuck in this uncanny valley because I bet they were animated with AI. However, for people that grew up with these games, witnessed the CODifization of them with MechAssault and had to wait decades before they returned it to its roots, it is absolutely worth your time to stomp around lobbing PPCs with your buddies in coop mode (a long forgotten concept few modern games seem to care about that might have been worth mentioning).
Comparing this game to XCOM because there is a minimap is insane, and comparing this game to Armored Core is like comparing Civilization to Age of Empires. This is a good game, with proper HOTAS support, for us simulation fanatics that with time and investment from the developers (and modding community) can become a great game (like Mercs became years after its initial release).
Unless of course more sites publish asinine reviews from reviewers that clearly have no understanding of the franchise they're reviewing.