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Great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Great game. good controls. hours of fun. one thing that i didnt like was that is was hard some times to finish a missions you got to make sure you do all them and the sub-missions. i would leave before i got the submissions done some times cause the screen would come up and say you completed your main objectives then i would leave. that is my only complaint about the game other than that is was one of the best games that i have ever played.

HA!!! Believe it or not but this IS PERFECT!better than MW4!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

One day i thought i would like to have a game that involved the future so when i picked up MW2 and saw it said the year is 3064 and blah blah blah i played the preview on the screen at Wal-Mart and thought cool.So i bought it and loved it.Then i bought MW4 and hehe i have 3 computers instead of 1 cause of trying to get a computer that had what MW4 required.

I thought it was da bomb and then i saw the previews talkin trash about it and saying Mech Warrior 3 was better so i bought it praying that i didnt waste my [price] bucks and i did not!I WASTED [price] BUCKS ON MW4!!!

Mech warrior 3 is like 1000 times better than 2 and 4. And even my 6 year old 1st computer could handle this game and i thought it would not do well and id have to use my other computer but it went fast on my old PC and the action is so real controls rock for key board even and it has better veiws and better details and for once a laser can actually kill a mech and i almost dropped dead seeing how good it was cause the LRM missle will lock on ur target and will Heat Seak the target and kill unlike a bomb dropping in MW4 that u can avoid easily and even its graphics are good and its pulse lasers dont seem like in this though but this game still rocks and jump jets are more real and in this one u have a decent cross hair and decent zoom i must admit i cant decide if the vulture or Mad Cat is my favorite Mech but i think its Mad Cat...

This game has a better story line and in this u do not need to be a pro on Multiplayer or Single player to win cause my first time on multiplayer wich was my 2 time even starting MW3 up i was able to destroy 7 mechs in a 5 min game so dont get worried if u have not played yet and u will play like a dead snail.

Always try to aim for the legs of a Mech and u will do good.

This game is worth $500 and im not kidden!!!

If u dont have a PC u should buy one just for this game.

MW4 will make some good Plastic to melt in the winter!

4 words THE BE$T GAME EVER!!!

Okay.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Okay, as the title explains, this game is not the best, but not the worst.
Here is a quick list of pros and cons:

Pros:
1. the variety of weapons is very interesting.

2. the move ment of the mechs is fluid and very realistic.

3. the training mode is really awesome.

4. the controls are well placed.

Cons:

1. this game takes quite alot of memory for windows 95/98

2. the graphics are not great (but hey, it's a couple years old.)

3. YOU DON'T GET TO CHOOSE YOUR MECH!!!!!????

4. doesn't work on windows ME/2000/ or even XP editions.

Good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

MechWarrior 3 is a great game. The graphics are a little outdated but it is a few years old. the SFX are great too, they are very true to weapon and are not of poor quality. On my pc (p4 2.0GHz, 512mb ddr333, Geforce mx440, 10,000rpm SCSI HD and Windows XP) it runs without any skipping or latency. The Campaigns are the best of any game I've played but some times I am at a loss as my copy did not come with a manual. This is by far the best mechwarrior game in existence (MW4 not so much because of the fact you do not have much freedom with creating new 'Mechs).

Good, easy fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've loved all of the Mechwarrior games, they are always so easy: stand and pick other Mechs off at extreme long range. Besides graphics changes the two big changes are a nice zooming rectile, to make those long-range shots easier and a "Mobile Field Base" that will fix you up in the middle of a mission. All of this makes the campaign short, just 10 hours or so.

I had one glaring problem, it wouldn't install or run on Windows 2000. Maybe I could have gotten it to run if I had hunted down and hand-installed all the files. It ran without a single hitch on Windows 98SE.

Mechwarrior 3

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this game will keep you playing even if you dont want to, this game has it all great graphics sound and well not so good music it kinda sounds like age of empires. you can choose from several diffrent mechs and several weapons to choose from. the reason i gave a 4 out 5 is the krappy AI (artefishal intellegence) sorry cant spell very well.

Last of the real Mech games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This was the last of the series to really use the rules and ideas of the original. The newer games work more like Quake than Mechwarrior. The graphics are dated compared to the newer games, but the game play is better, and it requires more strategy. For instance, LRM's have a minimum range. If you're closer than that minimum range when you fire them, they have no real effect on the enemy. The effect of this rule on the game is that you have a certain way to handle fire support mechs. You use cover to close on them as fast as possible so you can get in close under their missles and pound them. In the newer games, you can ram the enemy and fire them point blank. Kinda dumbs it down a bit.

Here today, gone tomorrow

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ages in the making and a bit of a disappointment, 'Mechwarrior 3' isn't sufficiently different to the ancient, venerable 'Mechwarrior 2', and suffers from the lumbering nature of mech-to-mech combat - even the best simulation of big, slow robots fighting each other boils down to a series of largely static duels. It's not complex enough for there to be a strategy hook, and not cartoony enough to be fun on a visceral level. Fittingly for a sequel to one of the nicest-looking games of 1994, the presentation is excellent, although the fantastic music from the original game has been ditched in favour of some anonymous, inferior imitations. As before, the weapons you have are an odd bunch - although you can kit your mech out with a variety of equipment, you eventually realise that only heavy lasers and heat sinks are any use. Machine-guns and missiles are strangely ineffective, and it seems unsatisfying to spend the entire game 'painting' the legs of enemy mechs with weedy lasers. Despite a four-year wait, the game seems... underwhelming. Not bad as such, just very forgettable. There aren't many missions, and only one of them (in which you have to intercept a train) presents a major challenge, and when its over it just seems to fade from the mind. Except for the voice acting, which is fine, but having them say 'aff!' as a salutation, whilst true to the Battletech universe, sounds extremely camp. The intro movie is fantastic, by the way.

Old Soldier, New Mech

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I haven't been following the Battle Tech series very closely, and have lost track of its history. But I am told, and have read that Mech Warrior stems from it.
Believe it or not, I found the Battle Tech series when I was a Private on the rise in the U.S. Army. That was over 20 years ago, and I've heard that BattleTech is over 15 years in history. Go figure! Anyway, about 7 years ago, I read about Mech Warrior and was stunned. Wow! What a toy to have! (GAME for PC) I grabbed a few pictures, and did a little reading. Then I acquired, MechWarrior - Hawks Revenge. I still have it around here somewhere - I think in storage. It was a fun game to play. Who wouldn't like dancing around in a 40 to 100 ton Battle tank with legs? Now Last year, I downloaded MechWarrior 3 (No CD, no disks, nothing! Just a download) and I have been in love ever since. Again - who wouldn't love dancing around in a 40 to 100-ton Mech? The guns, the power, the speed! My God, the speed! I have a pentium 4 running Windows XP. And man, the speed and fluidity of the program is awesome. I'm a graphic artist and I love eye-candy. This game gives me a high that you won't believe. My family gets upset because when I feel like making noise and blowing things up, it's Mechwarrior 3 on the PC! They like to play too (and my family is my girlfriend and my niece - both whom I call "Lady MechWarriors" - They play that well). However, sometimes, the program does drop out on its own. Yet it is not enough to annoy me or cause alarm. I just hit go, and I'm back in the business of shredding mech metal. It is, however, a good idea to shut down any non-essential programs that may be running in the background, in order to keep it from becoming a headache. That is, unless those programs are essential to keep the computer up and running. Usually, I shut down ICQ, and any other programs that may enable a pop up advertising window, or system message window. For a little while, I can live without them. And the PC doesn't mind either. From then on, it is BANG-BANG-BOOM! Good-bye Smoke Jaguar!
So, if you are new to the Mech Warrior Universe, read the books (any that you can find), play the games. Immerse yourself and have fun. If you are an old soldier like me (1st Cavalry, Co. C 2/7th Cav - '80 - '83), then put it on, it will look good on you! I haven't stopped (After a hard days work, it's always a trip into fantasyland and a visit with my fellow Infantrymen from days gone by), and I have completed the game several times. Now my new love is "Mech Assault"....
But that is another love story to be written.

A fun shoot'm up.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

A fun shoot 'm up, no less, and regrettably, no more. Fans of the board game, the series, or even the role- playing game will be in for a bit of a dissapointment. The game has few options besides "click and shoot". Still, I spent a fun few hrs playing it (and a lotta dlrs buying it).

I hope we'll get a better, more extensive version soon.

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