Recently I went on a website to ask which MechWarrior game was the best. Expecting to hear something fanboyish like: MechWarrior 4 or Mercenaries, I was surprised to find that they were all unanimous toward MechWarrior 3. According to many, They would prefer a Mech simulator to an arcade-ish FPS Robocop any day. Not having any Idea what the hell they were talking about, or what the fuck Robocop had to do with anything, I decided to go to my local GameStop to pick up a copy. Unfortunately, by the time I was able to play it, it crashed.
To tell you the truth, I wasn't actually able to play the game very much. This game crashes like the Hindenburg under Windows XP. I reformat, and even install Windows 2000. This thing still crashes to earth harder than Lucifer with an eviction notice. So, I do some Googling to figure out just what the hell is wrong with this thing. Turns out, I'm not alone. It seems a lot of people are having the same trouble, even WITH the updates installed. Finally, I come to terms with the fact that this sucks, and that I can't seem to fix it.
- GAMEPLAY: Anyway, in campaign mode, I could only get about as far as level 2, but what I did get out of it was that regardless of it's craptacular programming glitches, this is a pretty good game. It's about as cool as huge robots with guns is going to get, which goes without saying that it's pretty good.
- STORY: The story on the other hand is a different story. To think that after 2 previous installments they still couldn't seem to make the story interesting at all, and although it doesn't take away from the quality of the game play, it would have been a nice feature to hold the player's interest.
- GRAPHICS: The graphics are good, and needless to say are a definite improvement from the previous versions. The only problem here is that in order to switch from 1 st person view to 3 rd person, requires you to QUIT THE MISSION!
- CONTROLS: The only real problem I had with the game is its controls. They are hard, and by hard I mean like pushing a camel through the eye of a needle. Although it helps to use a dual analog game pad, or a joystick, it's still pretty annoying constantly letting go of the pad to do some keyboard sh**.
- VERDICT: This game would have been a hall of allot more fun, had it not been so unstable, but hey; it was a short but sweet.
The buddy AI is stupid, game's storyline is far from intriguing, game crashes harder than a DUI on the 405 freeway.
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