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Still a fun game to play once in a while. A few friends/colleagues at Digital Domain did the prerendered cinematics. Funny how the software renderer from the DOS release has stylistically aged more gracefully than those later 3D accelerated releases. I remember hearing the development was somewhat lengthy and troubled, with a late rewrite of the engine. Can't confirm if that is true.

Best Mechwarrior Game Ever.

If you like Mechwarrior 2 please try Earthsiege 2. Its actually superior in many respects, since it was made by the original Dev team. Its like a more polished and balanced Mechwarrior.

MW2 was my first great love and also my first "real" game after graduating from an old 8086 to my first Pentium. I played it through and through and for a year or two it was actually a sizable part of my childhood fantasy - probably because I lived in a podunk town with nothing to do. In fact, I often imagined driving mechs around said town and stomping stuff I didn't like, which was most stuff :D I eventually discovered the retextured versions for accelerators and expected them to be so much better, even got a Matrox Mystique specifically for that. They ended up being the first of MANY disappointments I'd have in the years with remastered versions. We didn't have Nightdive back then *sigh* Anyway, if I can suggest another video, perhaps Shattered Steel? It's a smaller game but quite fun - the best choice at the time if you wanted faster gameplay. There was also G-Nome which had interesting mech-stealing mechanics, but the 3D environment wasn't well used - everything was very flat. Oh, and of course Heavy Gear - which actually ran on a refined MW2 engine but was not quite as enticing.

Are You aware of any source ports of this game? I played a bit Mw2 back in the day, but in MW 4 Mercenaries - thousands hours played.

I was a huge MW2 fan and when MW3 came out I was very pleased, however it seemed most people liked MW4 more which I just didn't like because it felt too much like a arcade shooter and not a mech sim. Thankfully MW5 did roll back to more of a MW3 gameplay style, however it has a terrible story and some major engine bugs. Lets hope MW5 Clans (upcoming NEW game) offers a better story and patches up those engine problems.

MechWarrior for SNES was my first experience with the battletech universe. MW2 was a day 1 purchase when I got my new 486 back in 96. I had an S3 verge in that puppy.. the FIRST 3d Decelerator. hooboy i saved up 200$ from not eating school lunch to get a monster3d to fix that issue. was like night and day. I love Mw2. really MW2 mercs was a good upgrade, plus fighting in the inner sphere just feels better. Like you said though MW2 really ticked all the right boxes

PPCs, everywhere. Make a walking glass cannon.

yep, it was a good game

This was my favorite game as a kid. Such an amazing game, the entire MechWarrior series is a gem. Playing through Mech 4 Mercs now.

There was a download only nintendo ds game of dark void.

Oh man yes the machine gun build, so OP.

Peak of the series was Mechwarrior 3, Mechwarrior 4 would be fine on it's own but it in no way a worthy successor to Mechwarrior 3. For one thing the Mechs in 3 had weight and when they blew up it looked like what you would expect from 100 ton machine falling over and crashing to the ground. In 4 they just fell over and exploded like they were hollow cardboard and styrofoam props, no weight to the animation and they controlled that way too. I remember reading at the time that the new development team wanted to make it more "arcade like".

Any chance for Top Gun fire at will review? PC version had both somewhat interesting story and very fun dogfights striking decent balance between sim and arcade ( king of this particular genre was of course strike commander, but there were games like janes USAF or US navy fighters, or Novalogic stuff). Too bad modern market only has either ulrarealistic preflight checklist simulators , or straight up arcade shooters with planes carrying hundreds of missiles and shooting down dozens upon dozens of enemies during every single mission. The middle-of-the road genre seems to be forgotten (unless you count certain pay-to-win multiplayer only grindfests)

Excellent video! Hopping on my PS3 to play TDU2 rn

Armored Core remains my favorite mecha game franchise, especially for the 80s mecha anime influence and feel. That being said, Battletech/Mechwarrior would be a very close 2nd, especially for the big stompy death machine feel (and the obvious 80s mecha anime influence ala Dougram).

Cute little video. Sadly it is hardly a review, let alone of all the editions. (Only 2 ports out there ps1 and Saturn) It feels rushed and hasted. Half the editions dont get mentioned and there isn't any in depth info on them. Barely globally. Have you even played any of them?

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How do we play this on modern though? I'm on Windows 11, and for the LIFE OF ME, cannot figure this out.

Hackers! Hell yeah

You say he's wearing cool space clothes but I will never not see that as blue jeans and a red jacket.

I gotta say something, yes it's true MW2 was very popular, but there's actually another reason for so many editions- MW2's development was a disaster, most of the team left during its production and activision over-promised with tons of different 3D hardware versions of the game that they ended up spending a ton of money printing all the different iterations, and because of this they lost the license to make MW3. However since they still had the MW2 licence they pumped out more editions of the game and two expanion packs, which is why Ghost Bear's Legacy is a half-assed buggy mess of leftovers, and why Mercenaries, which while very good, was also extremely buggy and glitchy and made under extreme dev crunch *you can actually read the dev's hidden complaints about the process in Mercenaries' files, check the cutting room floor page for it!

Earthsiege 2 kicked ass too

Mw2: Best possible introduction to the Lore/Franchise. Mercenaries: Imbalanced hot mess but the most addictive for replayability. Mw3: Best Simulation, most satisfying Ballistics, Worst A.I. Mw4: Best looking of that Era, best at holding a mirror up to failings of the Inner Sphere

Greatest graphics ever!!!! Simple and clean.

Looks and plays like a mobile game. Pass. Thanks for the video.

I remember playing the Win 95 version of MW2 back when I was a wee lad. Man it was amazing.

Mechwarrior 2 was great. Mechwarrior 2 mercs a very funny mech. And Mechwarrior 3 maybe the most complete mech game, if you lose a limb you can fight from ground with a hand keeping you in a estable position. Mechwarrior 4 had better graphics, but loose too much. And Mechwarrior 5 mercenaries need some more "spirit" and missions with aftermath for the history.

Maaaan I remember being SO Stoked when I picked Mech2 up at a PC Flea Market with my dad back in the 90's. Pretty much bought every subsequent Mechwarrior game that came out after that. Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries might be my favorite of the second Gen Games, But Mech 2 has a nice special place in my heart as being the first Battletech Game I ever played.

95 tons with 4 er ppc and 30 DHS will be killer in TB game but in game I don't know.

Mechwarrior 2 was my favorite too. I even played the soundtrack as background noise to fall asleep.

Ugly sevrely outdated back in those days, ugly in these days as well I could never even come close to these crap games MW1 and MW2, seeing images in computer games magazines i was appaled. Even Mechwarrior 3 was severely backwards in terms of graphics but at least that titlesd passed a certain minimum visual threshold to be playable. In comparison lets take any other 3d game, like need for speed or quake/doom...hell, even wolfenstein 3d looked better.

Speaking of other mech games, I fondly remember EarthSiege 2. I remember kinda thing of it as the “Mechwarrior we have at home” version, but I enjoyed the combat, weapon management, and the more grim atmosphere of ES2 quite a bit.

Always loved the Wipeout series. Playing Wipeout XL for the first time at 15 on the PS1 was the first time I felt like: This is the future of gaming. It was superb! Still play these with my son and still have an excellent time! Never got to play this entry as I didn't know it even existed. Definitely going to have to find a copy somewhere and play this soon! Thanks for the review!

mw2 is fantastic but whenever I see people argue it's superior than mw5 i can't see where they're coming from yes, mw5 is superior in terms of lore, but the sheer force of technology completely overpowers it, even moreso with mods to free up the mechlab

I remember playing TONS of this game on my cousin's PC back in the day, and even more of MW3 once I had my own gaming PC. My favorite build was loads of pulse lasers which I'd focus on the enemy's legs ensuring i got max salvage off them.

I remember seeing a commercial for MW2 on TV back in the day. It broke my mind because game commercials, especially in Sweden were hype rare. I wanted it so badly but I never got it. My introduction was Mechwarrior 3 on a demo disk and I loved it intensely. Still my favorite MW game. I love everything about that one. I have MW 1-4 installed on my PC along with MechCommander 1. I just really need to get playing them, hah! My favorite mechs; Mad Cat ( Timber Wolf ), Mad Dawg ( Vulture ), Battlemaster, Phoenix Hawk, Catapult, Marauder, Raven and probably Raven Mk. II from Mechassault, at least design wise.

I still play it regularly - the DOS version through dosbox is still the best iteration!

I thought game wise Microsoft is the one sole owner for the IP of MechWarrior?

A remaster shouldn't be too difficult since the Mechwarrior franchise is owned by Microsoft and Mech2 was made by Activision, which is now owned by Microsoft. If Topps (the current owner of the Battletech universe) signed off, I'm sure someone like Nightdive would immediately jump in to remaster Mechwarrior 2. BUT, I suspect we will lose several Mech designs due to the old Unseen legal issues (FASA took art from several anime shows like Macross which includes the Rifleman, Marauder, and Warhammer). Even though the court cases finally ended in 2017, I would not be surprised if company lawyers warned everyone not to touch or even open that can of worms again.

I wonder if they did something about the braking. In the first game unless you're were in a McLaren, the normal brakes do almost nothing. Every other car has the stopping distance of a fully loaded diesel locomotive.

Back in the day I bought a Matrox GPU card because it had dual monitor outputs and my early Linux PC rig could support this. The one I bought came with MW2 which, at the time, I knew nothing about. I installed it on the MS side of the dual boot and was hooked! Not being a tabletop gamer I knew nothing of Battletech but I loved this game and over time played all the subsequent games including the expansions and MechCommander. I still have MW5 and Battletech installed on my current games rig 😁

I got this free with my Voodoo 1. I was so addicted to it for years. Still playing MWO regularly

Mercs 2 was def my favorite in the series, I'd like to say 4 after that but I find that way harder to get back into compared to 5.

_Titanium_ _Edition_ also haphazardly changed many of the environments/settings for no reason, for example: 'ice planet' becomes 'scorching desert planet.'

"But didn't need a check list to start the engines..." But that's the best part! Nothing like a game that tells you "tutorial? Read the manual you filthy casual is just 60 pages long and has a chapter on how pilots eat on the mechs" (Yes steel battalion I'm looking at you)

big mechs? STANDBY FOR TITANFALL

Great review man. Thanks for the rundown, I had no idea Mech2 had so many releases! Could you share the name of the crunchy track you have in the background? It's AWESOME

MechWarrior Living Legends is my favorite game in the series and just like in this game playing as a tank or battlemech with 6 machine guns will shred anything so long as you don't overheat the guns in that game "The guns themselves have to cool down like IRL for balance" Machine guns in that also have infinite ammo and reach out to 1600m though the damage falloff after 450m makes the damage pretty much null even if your walking around in battlearmor.

Had this on PC back then and the feel of it was fantastic. The way the mech moved and how the controls were set up was awesome. Sure the landscapes were barren and the polygons didn't have texture mapping but it worked and it gave it a simplicity that made it easy to digest from a visual standpoint.