The biggest change to the game play is that you can now get out of your mech. This includes the game's driving metal soundtrack, which is a bit repetitive but fits the onscreen action like a glove. Whether you're dogfighting a single enemy Mad Dog or you're under fire from an entire base's worth of mechs and tanks, everything remains crisp, clear, and fast. What I do know is that everything is bigger, faster, and smoother, with no hint of slowdown. I guess there are more polygons or something, I don't know. Naturally, this will require you to blow people up.įirst off: MechAssault II looks one whole hell of a lot better than the original. You are again put into the role of the nameless MechWarrior, bouncing from planet to planet and war to war in search of the participants in an unknown conspiracy. Now there is MechAssault II: Lone Wolf, a sequel that doesn't try to fix what isn't broken. If you can't enjoy knocking down buildings, launching missiles at enemy mechs, or stomping unwise enemy infantry into a fine paste, then you may actually be dead, and MechAssault delivered all these things in spades, both online and off. Even those for whom the idea of piloting their own giant robot weapon holds no special appeal, such as myself (the 'Giant Robot' part of my gamer brain is apparently missing, presumably replaced by an unusually large 'Shooting Zombies' lobe), could have fun with it.

The original MechAssault was a mech game for people who don't like mech games.

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