Customer Reviews for Mech Warrior 4: Vengeance

Mech Warrior 4: Vengeance
by Microsoft

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Video Game Reviews of Mech Warrior 4: Vengeance

Customer Review: MW series is still the best round (4/1/2 stars)
Summary: 4 Stars

Actually, ive only played the demo of MW4--the first 2 missions. The voice acting was so-so, yes, but please. ive played games like future cop: LAPD, and SOF (at a friends house), so compared to them, this game has quite good acting.

The Mech lab is revamped, in a good way, from MW2 and definately MW3. (You could do nothing in MW3 from what i could tell, but it was OK in MW2). The fact that you can only place certain weaps on certain parts SORT OF makes sense--if you're piloting a marauder you're not gonna stick an SRM pod on the arm. But you could easily put a gauss rifle there. so that may need work, but it does make sense. You're not gonna stick a PPC on the huge missile rack of a warhammer, either.

The next thing i noticed was that in-game, the weapons were a LOT simpler to use. The controls were mostly that of MW2. The only caveat i found was that turning your torso just a leeeeetle to the right was difficult, as until it began to turn majorly, it ROCKETED right over, making targeting impossible. Yes, the other problem was that unlike MW2 you couldn't shoot the legs out from under a mech. Don't make much sense, but maybe thats just my targeting ability :) i bet if you actually bothered to aim, you could easily. (despite what anyone says, legs are still the best way to kill a mech). I was actually able to do some damage on my first try, but it is not an ez game. It will take many tries until you get the hang of mech strategy. and if you play FPS's where you are a non-moving shooter, you will have a very bad habit to break.

Overall, the few caveats they put in just HAPPENED to be big ones. but not big enough to make me NOT buy this game as soon as i get a good computer. But as for you, the reader, you do have a good computer. Buy it. (And whilst you are at it, pester microsoft, the evil empire, to release it for the mac!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!)

Customer Review: Recommended to Buy!
Summary: 5 Stars

Mechwarrior 4 is one of the best looking games i have ever played. The only other game that looks this good and has a good story line is Max Payne. When the IS and Clan Mech' Paks are purchased it takes the game to new dimensions. One of the great features in this game is that the cheats come built into the options menu so you don't have to do all these fancy keystrokes just to do some thing minor. Online play is beautifully set up graphically and option wise. All in all this is a great game and any expansion pack just makes it better.

Customer Review: An Awesome Game
Summary: 5 Stars

This game is great. It's all that i ever do anymore. First I really got into the single player, and once i was through with that, (because it is kind of short), I started the multiplayer. The multiplayer is some of the best i have played in a long time, because you don't just die as soon as you respawn without knowing what happened (like in quake 3 or unreal tournament, and there are all sorts of different game types to play. The keyboard controls are a little wierd, but if you have a microsoft sidewinder precision pro or force feedback 2 it is really easy to figure out. What i did (i don't know if they still have this offer) was i got the game with a force feedback 2 joystick, for like [price], which is a pretty good deal. Anyway, as far as this stacks up against other Mecha games, it is definately better than MW2, but i have never actually played MW3, but i don't know how it could be better than this game. The only thing that bugged me about MW4 was the mechlab and the way that it worked, but i soon got used to it. This game rocks.

Customer Review: A less than average game.
Summary: 2 Stars

This game really isn't worth your time. Microsoft has gutted it. Many people may be raving about the graphics, and the story line; but honestly, the story line isn't any better than mech 3's, and what's the point of great graphics if the gameplay is horrible? Microsoft has done three things that have really destroyed this game. The most noticeable is that the mech handling has been greatly speed up. The speed at which you can turn around in this is something I would expect from a 150 pound person--not a 100 ton mech! Microsoft has also made the control system incomprehensible. The first 3 mech games were simple enough, but this one is impossible to figure out. Finally, the mech lab makes it impoosible to have any variety. The game gives you only one or two options for what you can do to your mech. This igame is not worth it--buy mech 3.