If there was one game that defined my early life as an XBox Live gamer, it was Mechassault. I spent countless hours on Live playing the game. I even belonged to a clan for a short while. Damn, that was a long time ago.
Mechassault 2 was supposed to be a bigger and badder version of the first game. Instead, they completely screwed it up. The worst problem in my book was the fact that each match had you starting as a pilot that needed to scramble to a mech. This completely took out the fun of choosing what mech you wanted to play. Lame. Yes, it had some good points, but overall it was a huge failure and it definitely didn’t have the durability of the first game. It was perhaps one of my biggest gaming disappointments to date.
It’s beyond time to whip out Mechassualt 3 […]
Original post by Paul and software by Elliott Back
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