Mechwarrior 3: Opening cinematic
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- Опубліковано 27 бер 2011
- The opening cinematic for the splendid 1999 sequel to the stupendous game that was Mechwarrior II. This game was good but I believe that it was not superior to its predecessor. Certainly on a graphical level it was a vast improvement, but that old DOS game ran game play rings around this iteration.
The best thing about this game was the narrator at the start of the game; the voice acting was superb, unlike every other game, completely believeable. The officer who gave your briefings and so on, completely believable. No MW title has matched 3, and it's been 13 years. How sad is that?
This game had the BEST immersion
just passing by 12 years later :)
you're right, still unmatched 25 years after release
How typical of the Smoke Jaguars to waste a PPC blast on a single soldier.
Both other weapons are ammunition fed, the energy weapon is the logical choice for a non priority target. Still, absolute overkill... so perfectly reasonable to a Jaguar Warrior
If I understand correctly they were one of if not the most brutal clan. Even the canon books and games mention they were hard and brutal to those they occupied, especially to civilians. That's why they were target by the IS for total annihilation. Even Clan Wolf didn't like them not to mention the Nova cats
+cv .echeveste A number of the Clan sourcebooks, including ones that speak about the origins of the Clans, explain the Smoke Jaguars in detail -- they were harsh to everyone, even themselves, believing in "survival of the fittest". Their training regimen was even more harsh than the Jade Falcon one (already considered one of the most difficult in the Clans). Only Clan Blood Spirit had a tougher warrior training program (by far, the toughest out of all of the Clans, hands down).
I thought only Clan Wolf used the Timber Wolf?
@@danieldorn2927 They could be gifted or salvaged.... but well the latter has been more rare then the former.
To this day, this intro still puts me through so many emotions.
Mechwarrior 2 rocked too
The part of this game I remember the most apart from the intro was the mission briefings. The fly-by of the mission area using recon drones and the voice acting gave it a kind of authenticity that I didn't feel with other games in the series.
Tremadog102 I adored the fact that mission control sounds more and more tired as the game goes on. Like he’s burning the wick at both ends.
So true, the VA really killed it.
"Without a TAG laser, that artillery will be about as accurate as Command is at predicting Clanner movement... No offence!"
"None taken, thanks for the vote of confidence"
I fucking loved that. It sounded pure military. The briefing wasn't some hyped up guy hamming it up, but some tired dude just trying to do his job.
@@nightwisher02 I don't remember to sign on walking tour on Tranquil. Am I glad to be here? You bet I am.
Still gets chills at the "Die Clanner" line
+1
its what a decade plus later and I still feel that clanner killing fury at that moment.
me too
Sitting in a probably salvaged or captured ClanMech. That must be sweeeeeet!
You can feel the raw hatred in his voice.
No doubt he lost countless family members and comrades to those savage barbarians.
My favorite MechWarrior game!
Name 7 of the best games from 1995-2000
GVGavenatore Dark Forces, Duke Nukem 3d, 688(i) Hunter Killer, Unreal, Half-Life, Thief, System Shock 2, Mechwarrior 3, Deus Ex, Fallout, Baldurs Gate 1 & 2.
@@spearPYN + Quake 3 Arena, Millenium Racer Y2K fighter + Fakk II. I think Generalkidd has played at least one of them l.
Fancy seeing you here
Why hello
What you think of 5?
This cinematic got me hyped to pilot an Atlas, which we didn't get until the expansion pack. Dominic even says "We could sure use an Atlas about now" in one of the briefings. I played through this game so many times.
This atlas was so fucking cool i decided to recreate it as much as possible for multiplay 4 IS large pulse lasers a Heavygaus and Bap ecm is a good mech to deal with fanmade mary sue BS hitboxes in the Mw4 mektek mod.
'Once again' at war? It's the Inner Sphere, when AREN'T they at war?
They technically weren't at war for about seven years...
Except Clan Wolf and Jade Falcon were engage in the refusal war.
Bad Beard Bill WOW how did they manage that
Too bad the jaguars lost
assholes deserved it for wiping out Edo on Turtle Bay.
Though the CGI looks weak by today's standards, the script, direction, voice acting and music are really well done. Makes you want to see the larger movie this scene could have come from.
the CGI looks pretty much fine to me!
Cgi was second rate even back then but it didn't matter! It was a great intro and really set the tone!
You haven't seen a lot of late 90's CGI have you... This was lightyears ahead of most of it.
@@ZeeZeeBun Check out Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. Its about in the same realm of quality.
Hell yea, for its time it was really really good.
I love how that Madcat just kept shooting at that Atlas, and that Atlas didn't even flinch...
Vulture pilot saying "die, clanner" :)
It was salvaged mech. Many lance commanders use those mechs to show that clanners can be beaten.
I guess it's even have the IS equipment.
hohmahohma funny thing is the vulture is a clan mech
Mad Dog please :)
Problem... Omnimechs have completely different logistics compared to standard mechs...
The Draconis Combine Avatar is based on the Vulture chassis. It was developed because using salvaged Clan OmniMechs led to too many field breakdowns from the lack of proper parts to repair and maintain them.
I've made some research and realized that all mechs has correct equipment that will work ingame, like both Mad dog, Summoner has Prime configuration, firefly most likely "3SLE" configuration, Atlas visually has 1 machine gun, 3 M-Lasers, 2 LRM10, 1 SRM6, 1 AC-10. Timberwolf is most likely Prime configuration too, but visible 2 M-Lasers 4 machine guns, and 2 LRM20
Ah, great memories. I remember showing off this opening to friends (even though you could skip it) because I was so blown away by it.
Me too!
I was blown away by the actual graphics way back then....
This Title made us fiel we were part of a Movie : ) !
Mechwarrior3,
Ice maps,
Yahoo! Games,
56k modem,
Good old times!
Legging!
>tfw the only reliable weapon in those high lag days was the Ultra AC 20
"We are here. We need to be... there". In this game was the best mission briefings ever. I really miss it in MW4+
The Mad Cat literally shat in its pants when it saw the Atlas.
he's like.. WHO ARE YOU?
Atlas: h e h
To give him credit he did only hesitate a moment and then he fired where as most pilots wouldnt have even got that far
@@rasiabsgamingcorner2258 Too bad he could only fire ER Small Lasers(blue in MW3) and machinegun, since he built up too much heat firing his ER Large Lasers on infantry while running at top speed. ;)
Reflexes -
Very good
(For reasons already stated)
Aim/Targeting -
Exceptional
(Hitting multiple infantry soldiers on opposite sides of the Mech while in a full run... with a Large Laser.)
Weapon and Heat Management -
Average to below average
(Didn't waste ammo on infantry, but ignored the 4 dedicated anti-infantry weapons on his Mech, the machineguns!)
Tactical - He/she is dead
(He/she spiked her/his heat on non-priority targets while having no information about - but every reason to believe - Inner Sphere Mech forces supporting the tanks and infantry, a perfect ambush enviroment being right behind the conventional forces.)
Yep, that's a young Smoke Jaguar Mechwarrior piloting the best all-around OmniMech in the Clan's arsenal. Skilled, overconfident to a fault, scream + leap + smash face first into an IS ambush. ^^
"...interception complete..."
@@WindiChilliwack Steiner Scout lance snuck up on him! And by snuck, I mean walked right up and ruined his day. Smoked Jaguar anyone?
This is definitely the best classic Mechwarrior intro cinematic. No goofy live action mixed with dated CG, or the bad acting that came with it. The combatants also displayed intelligent tactics that made the battlefield scenario feel real. The horrifying screams of the dying soldiers. Perfection
I don't know, about the intelligent actions if it was reality the atlas should have fired weapons while closing fullspeed to put his battlefist in the mix instead of just walking out and standing but yes the rest is pretty good. I like the mw4 one more despite the much dumber choices the lanceleader makes
Atlas is all like: lol, please.
I found it funny that the Atlas wasn't a playable mech until the expansion if I recall.
+Miami Storm Column it did not exist until the expansion.
TheCptnOf Fail
Yeah, that's exactly what I said.
Miami Storm Column
yep... just confirming it
Everybody gangsta until they run into an Atlas, it happens in almost every MW cinematic.
Until Atlas meets Zeus. Then his mind is blown off.
That ''die, clanner!'' gives me chills everytime I hear it :/
"Die Clanner!" How can I NOT say that whenever I play Mechwarrior games against Clanners?
Aiming for the cockpit. The disrespect is real!
typical grubbing IS mechwarriors ;)
typical whiny Clanners who think war is a game.
Mechwarrior ain't no game, you sick clanner!
Im a Clanner (leaning towards Clan Wolf out of all of them) and even I wouldn't respect the Jaguars if I had to deal with them. I never liked the Jaguars. Neither did most of my fellow Wolves.
thats why i always aim for the LEGS ...
It's amazing to me how this series always had the best opening FMV.
I love how Dominic is the lance leader, Big Al is Alan, and Firefly 1 is Epona. Firefly 2, unfortunately, was a redshirt that got filled by you.
care to explain?
No, Firefly 2 was Dominic.
Tell me, when was the last time you _didn't_ use Dominic as bait?
@@crowsbridge Those are your squad mates in the game's single-player campaign.
Whos firefly 3 ? the one in the very start
@@matthewcrocker2479 That is the random red shirt... Just like all the red shirts in the tanks and infantry on the field.
even tho the thor can’t look straight down like that with the mech when he steps on the dude... it a hilarious scene lol.
2:15 R.I.P Unknown soldier
I feel more sorry for the poor bastard the Thor felt deserved to die to a PPC blast. using that on a battlearmor i can understand...but an unarmored trooper?
@@pendraco2000 We're talking Clan Smoke Jaguar here. Don't be shocked by the Jaguars. They were one of the most brutal clans.
@@pendraco2000
The Jags were right bastards. May they burn in hell.
This cinematic opens to one of my favorite games of all time, MW3. It really opened up to display the awesome might of one of these mechs on the battlefield and the music added the battlefield terror to the menacing firepower and size of the behemoths. One of the greatest games ever, in my opinion
This is the most badass intro trailer of history. Dont argue. Its mechwarrior.
Intro of Mechwarriror 2 was better though :P
Mechwarrior 4 had the best intro.
Mechwarrior 2: Mercs - "Look at it this way, kid, YOU get to keep all the money."
MW4's intro was very good but the 'acting' ruined it. Except for the main guy in that intro the rest of the, ah hem, 'actors' were absolutely awful.
I still think Ghost Bear's Legacy had the best intro.
MechCommander's intro actually had some pretty dope acting. Pretty tight intro as well.
Formula for Mech Warrior Movie... Writers set up and play elaborate battle tech campaign... then write story based on the results... and make kick ass movie.
I think thats how the original novels and lore books were written.
Michael Bay directing this movie can allow for lots of explosions. Then again, the movie would have to include a bunch of teenagers that get more camera time than the battlemechs.
Also all the lens flares!
Rocko's Modern Warfare If Michael Bay directed a Mech Warrior Movie, he would no doubt butcher the plot with his moronic bull shit, focus entirely on a bunch of pubescent fuck wits (as you've stated), and just all around ruin the franchise for millions of fans. Still the chances of him making this movie are next to none, as he cant cram U.S flags into every scene considering that the U.S no longer exists in Battle Tech lore. If he DID direct a Mech Warrior movie, I would have to hunt him down and personally castrate him.
I have high hopes for the new warcraft movie!
This is one of my all time favourite games..
I still occasionally mutter "Die, Clanner!" when I'm getting ready to deliver the killing blow in a game.
haha that moment wen you go face to face against an atlas xD
*backs away slowly*
face mine
LackofAttack naw man......ac20 4med lazers and srms is a beast in face to face close quarters combat
Its too bad he had an arm ripped of he would not need the weapons at all.
And your only weapons not recycling are the anti-infantry machine guns you should have been using in the first place.
"Good morning! How's it feel to be strapped to a walking nuke reactor at 6 AM?"
Dear Lord, i once believed the graphics of this intro was amazing.
+litmusing but they are :)
Comparing it to today standard is a waste of time, just admire the high level of quality it brought back in old computers... hell this was animation for videogames at it's height.
Dude, this intro still looks amazing! What's your problem?
Mmm-hmm. Christmas '99 was a good year.
MW4 animation is much better, but mostly with the walking and movement animations, but the cutscenes graphics are still awesome.
This intro never stops amazing me. It does an excellent job selling you this game and the universe. Who can look at this and say, _"Nope, don't want it."_ If this came out now people would have difficulty hiding theirs boners.
My favorite part is when the Summoner turns to look at the nuclear explosion of his lance-mate's Mech, then he just as easily turns away and continues on his original duties. He's like, _"Huh. Well, we both knew what we signed up for."_ That is so hardcore.
+extragirth64 You mean his Star-mate ;) And, given that they were both Smoke Jaguars, he probably felt that his fellow warrior came from an inferior sibko, no doubt.
Mechwarrior 3 for all of its many faults got the Campaign/feel of the world right, simply put between the scaled down "Fighting Lance to Lance" battles, the Campaign that basically encompassed little more then a botched raid that was part of a much larger operation, and a worn out Tactical operations officer who sounds just as overworked and exhausted as you expect someone to feel after being in a combat zone constantly for days on end, I loved this game and hope it can be recaptured in another someday.
Among a pair of Smoke Jaguar Mechwarriors, even among sibmates, the sentiment was probably closer to "Well more for me, then" or a sarcastic "I take it we are no longer sharing the glory then, quiaff?" followed by possible chuckling as he resumed his infantry hunt.
@@kevshabunas523 I remember watching the campaign intro and carefully listening to the plans thinking "well that sounds like a fun game", then one of the ships gets blown up, teams are scattered and things just generally go tits up all around and just sit through the following loading screen (I did not have the best machine back then, shut up) thinking "well... crap, now what?"
My son and I used to race through this game and see who could get through it without dying. I was 42 and he was 12.... he stomped my shit every time!
Still SOOOO good in 2019!
my god they are crushing people!
My dad had me play this game when I was so young I can barely remember. This intro cutscene really brings be back.
I can watch that vulture take out that mad cat 1000 times and still get pumped up every time he gets that missile lock
Clans: We have superior genetics and technology
Inner sphere:....We have a 300 year old design....Atlas
I'm dancing with an Annihilator here!
2019, and I still remember how terrifying that fight was
Those quad LB-10x 😱🔥
Mechwarrior always had the best animated cinematics!
It's hard for even newer games to compete with the rush these videos instilled.
And this is why ALL Mech pilots should fear fighting in a city. Way too many places to hide and ambush from!
Really takes me back. Thanks for the upload!
the smoke jaguars are getting fucked in MWO right now xD
if you read the books the jags do get smoked
+TheRumChum They are still getting fucked a year later. :D
+El Bandito I'm a Smoke Jaguar, I've noticed XD
Of course the Smokes would get fucked, there is a reason why the SLDF destroyed them first.
one of the greatest game openings
Nostalgia....
Ah nostalgia, one of the first games I played on PC when I was a kid.
oh man this game gives me the feelies
man i use to play this when i was a kid and i loved it! i couldn't remember the name of it until now, I'm going to download this game and play it again like good old times xD
Salvage. They were on a Clan dominated Planet and stranded without any support.
That Summoner pilot is useless. Only a freebirth would waste his PPCs on infantry.
Jack Traveller What was he supposed to use? He only has the PPC, an LRM launcher and an autocannon. out of the three, only one doesn't use ammo and all have comparable firepower.
Did they really? The defenders had an Atlas, Mad Dog and two Fireflies. The Atlas was destroyed fighting the Timberwolf and it's a small miracle that he even won that duel as the Timberwolf is an all around better mech. The Fireflies are effectively useless against the Summoner and the Mad Dog isn't armored well enough to beat it either. Had the stupid clanner not acted like a stupid clanner and chased the last Firefly straight into an obvious ambush he'd have wiped the floor with both remaining mechs.
satannstuff he should have stomped them
If he'd fought more intelligently he would have, but clan tactics being what they are, it probably didn't even occur to him that he might be walking into an ambush.
Wait what, a madcat isn't better than an atlas, the atlas is the second most armored mech in lore and has enough fire power to destroy an entire Garrison. Madcats are great mechs, but even they get scared when they see an atlas.
All these years and it still looks awesome. Havent played this game since i was a kid.
this is the best intro of the whole series - the elite of the elite - love it!
Mad Cat: Yeah, rampaging through the countryside, blowing up Fireflies, this is the life! Whoops, almost ran into a wall there. Could have sworn that building wasn't there a second ag -- _oh. Ohhhhhhh. Oh dear._
Huh... Same narrator as Falcon 4, another Microprose title. Oh the memories of my late teenage years, early 20s.
IT IS THE 41st MILLENIUM, AND THERE IS ONLY WAR
The Machine cult would be very interested in these mechs.
Is that heresy though?
I was hooked up to this game, sounds of lasers were in my head all the day
This has given me goosebumps since I was a small child. When the guy got crushed by the Thor, I welled up like "oh my god this is war" for some reason it was so real to me in this trailer
I love how the infantry death cries are all from Command & Conquer, which is ironic since Westwood Studios did make 2 of the first Battletech video games.
I thought it sounded familiar, thanks
No. The screams are from the Sound Ideas Sound Library which Westwood (and everybody else) used throughout the 90s.
"Die Clanner..." love it :-)
"Die Clanner"
i dont even want to think about the number of hours i spent playing this game, loved it!!!
This looked really good in 2002. I played this a lot with a rumble seat and 2 control sticks.
Very well put on the Salvage anything that isn't nailed down. And if it is nailed down, they get out the crowbars.
I played so much mechwarrior when I was 5/6 years old I wanted to join the army just to become a mech pilot...
What an amazing upload. Brings back crazy memories. I graduated to this from MechCommander 2 and does anyone remember Lynx and the other members of the "game" from that game?
by lynx are you referring to the armored core series?
+Mark Balcombe Yeah, MC 2 was great, much better than this heap of junk. All you do is run and shoot their legs off. If you're the slightest bit careless you get blasted to oblivion by a larger mech with high ac. In mechcommander you could at least use some strategy and tactics.
hell yes.... especially Hitman, Siren and Paingod.
MC1 was my favorite
God i love this intro the best especially when the madcat gets scared of the Atlas and starts shooting him and gets three lasers to the face
and when it goes critical lol
Superior clan tech means jack when you're running into an Atlas... just for the fact... it's an Atlas.
For 20 years I wondered how the fuck it was possible for an Atlas to just sneak up to a Madcat like that.
And then I played Mechwarrior Online.
Some players just get so tunnel visioned that a coordinated group on the other team could say
"hey dude there's a Madcat headed towards you"
"oh yeah? okay lemme turn around real quick... lol he's looking the other way, imma wait till he looks at me then cockpit him"
Watch TheBEEF’s videos on the stealth Atlas. Powering down and remaining still while powered on…you’d be surprised how many people’s eyes pass right over you. And that’s without being a bloodthirsty smoke jaguar warrior.
1:12 "yep, im pretty confident we can take this city by ourselves...you go right, I'll go left" "got it"
They could've done it if both mechs weren't played for fools. The Timberwolf fell for a flank, Summoner fell for an ambush.
They did a good job with this intro. The atmosphere is distinctive, but I don't really think the pilots were very smart..... Well the Vulture pilot and Atlas pilot were.
MW3 was the first computer game I bought with my own money.... never finished the campaign, though.
ShadowCatGambit same here. Got to the Geothermal plant and got wrecked
Can’t blame ‘em. 500 years of constant warfare means most people don’t have more than a fourth-grade education and whatever practical experience they manage to scrape up.
I love how the Thor uses a PPC to take out ONE INFANTRY SOLDIER. I mean, what a way to go!
MW3 level 18 (all ice and snow), don't need any heatsinks !
Load out eight Clan particle cannons with link fire... almost 1 shot a second non stop.
Good times.
MechAssault games usually aren't considered canon to the original series' storyline. MechAssault was actually seen in the eyes of many old BattleTech fans as a bastardization of what the series is about.
All the MechWarrior games take place before the events of MechAssault.
Also; BattleTech takes place in the "Inner Sphere", which is a collection of thousands of planets that humans have colonized. If one world blows up- there's many, many more to live on.
Imagine if an Annihilator was waiting in ambush in the city with 4 LBX 20s and 2 Heavy Medium Lasers. That Thor would have been owned.
idiot.Thor is heavy mech 70 tons.Annihilator 100 tons assault mech.Stupid compare.
Khorn Demon Did I say it was fair? No, all is fair in war. Remember Inner Sphere won because they didn't play by the rules like the clans did.
JOn DHo stupid kid who even dont know what is autism.Stupid piece of shit, get a fuck out of here and do your homework.
Eh, I feel like the variant with the 4x gauss would have cleaned house without them stepping foot near the city.
NinjaMoose234 even though "gausszilla" was a clan variant? if anything it would have been on their side
Ugh, I hated seeing the Atlas fall so quickly. The planning for this lance could of been much better, excusing the light ambush. But still, it was a very gritty opening. Loved it.
The last Mech Warrior game I played for the longest time was MWII: Lone Wolf. Then I learned of Mech Warrior Online. Nothing between, until you.
I think some people forget that these Jaguars are cadets and did not fully understand how capable and powerful their mechs were in comparison
I've had it since it's release. It's lasted that long.
One of my favorite games!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👍 Also best ever Mechwarrior video! Should get a HD REMAKE/REMASTER for the full game or a MOVIE!!! 👏
Still one of my favorite intros
Dude that scream and body sqush is still my favorite
wow this bring me WAY back
the nostalgia is overwhelming
This, Ztar Craft and Putt Putt were my childhood PC games.
This opening makes the Thor look like a unstoppable monster but really they are kind of squishy
In MWO, yes, but in the lore, they were pretty scary pieces of machinery. Fast, agile, a lot of armor and powerful weaponry to boot.
***** Because it has a very loose basis in the lore.
It was quite nice in that game.
My loadout was a thor with 4 PPC's, AMS and heat sinks
Nikolai Malthus' Thor was OP.
I don't know about MWO, but the Thor was only decent at mid to long range in the tabletop game, similar to the medium Griffin. Close up, the PPC and LRMs are outmatched by medium lasers and SRMs. The Mad Cat was a beast though.
Clanners know much about battle, but little about war. Inner Sphere know both.
That particular infantryman was especially freeborn and had to be dealt with accordingly.
The best intro to any game. I honestly get chills whenever I watch it! :D
Playing this over and over and watching Gundam Wing was basically all I did between Pokemon games.
I think the whole Battletech universe is awesome, having played both my first match of the table top game which this was inspired and the MechWarrior games themselves.
Leave it to Smoke Jaguars to slaughter infantry and legged scouts rather then looking for true prey.
IN THE YEAR 3058
Was, and still is, a great game.
Please bury me with my dial up modem, I'm dying of nostalgia
I like how the Thor was just standing there and not destroying the remaining firefly.
Surat overheated his mech using PPCs on infantry.
Just finished MW3. Still very much playable now days. Poor Dominic. Always getting the shortest stick.
This is a fun and well made game and I used to play it often when I had Windows XP. Took me a while to make it all the way through to the end. It's unfortunate that it won't play on the newer Windows versions. I wish that that one of the game manufacturers could make a new "reboot" version of this game with the latest graphics for modern systems and more interactions with backgrounds. Keep the controls the same.
This was a great MW game, great map and briefing concepts and you could step on people.