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Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Couldn't wait until I got Xbox Live to write this. The game and graphics are awesome. I didn't believe some of the reviews which indicated that the single player game is short. Well, it is! Thats too bad because anyone without Live who really wants a cool Mech game like this is out of luck. I finished it in a weekend. It's still fun but, at least they could have let you choose any Mech you wanted, to play from the beginning, after beating it. Thats my biggest gripe. I am getting Live next week and by what I have read it seems that that's where most of the fun is. If you don't have Live and won't have it anytime soon then I suggest renting this game first. You might just beat it and decide it's not worth keeping.

I got Live and it does make owning Mech Assault more worth the money. Multiplayer is a blst. I just hope there is a Mech Assault 2 because after replaying the single player mode I can see alot of things that could be added to make the game near perfect. Don't listen to any reviews here that totally bash this game. The graphics are outstanding for an Xbox game. There is no screeching noise when you walk. It's a BOOM, BOOM sound when you walk. And you do need to aim if you really want to bring down another Mech. If you love Mech games you need to at least rent it.

Good game but repeditive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played this game at my friends house before I played it and I found myself rather bored. Then we played LIVE and my opinion changed a lot. Live is fun but the mechs are WAY to hard to kill, you shoot it with like 75 missles and it finaly dies. The missions are ok. I gave this a 4 for the graphics and the realistic enviorment. I felt that the mech's stregh was annoying aww whatever its good but i recommend you rent it cuz its a short game and unless you play live it is unsatisfying to play for a long time

okay-single player only review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is okay. I just bought it for single player, so i don't know how fun it is online, so this is just a single player review on this game.

the graphics are pretty good, as are the weapons. I just dont like campaign or local multiplayer, and thats everything for single player. Ut just isn't fun.

Almost there...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: November 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ok, we all know that the brother to this game (mechwarrior) had minor problems, but Mech Assault seems to have made up for most of these.(Control problems,choppy graphics,etc...) There are tons of missions,some of which are stupid hard and others that are just not hard enough. This however makes for an interesting game. I have played this game just long enough to know that it is a must-have for any X-Box owner. Mech Assault is weak compared to the monstrosity know as Steel Battalion.(If you are planning to buy SB then don't even think about buying this, just save your money because SB is going to be 200+ dollars.(But well worth it. Overall Mech Assault is a very good game.

One of the Best Games Ever!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is great from start to finish. Graphics, sound effects, playability, difficulty-level... When you get this, you will not be wasting your money - a must have!!!

Mediocre-Assault

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: November 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was anticipating the release of this game on the Xbox for a while and quite honestly was let down after only playing the first couple of levels. The last time I played a "Mech" game was on PC many years ago and remember having hours of fun, but this game just doesn't create the same interesting challenges as it predecessors on the PC. The game lacks the need for strategical planning. I also miss the customizing and ability to attack weakening points on a mech such as a leg or weapon. It would of been nice to have given me the option of viewpoints. I would much rather play a mech game from the first person perspective than a third. More missing features are lack of customizing your own controllers (If you can invert the Y axis, for heaven sakes, let us invert the X axis as well!) , check points, mech training, Enemy mechs power levels (How much more do I have to do to kill this guy!), and weapon customization. I left two stars on my review for the possibility that Live play may be worth the buy, but I can't comment cause broadband isn't available in my area. So, save yourself the time and money and rent before you buy on this one. I wish I'd have.

Too hard to manipulate

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I work in the electronics department at a store, and a customer had purchased Mech Assault, and wanted to return it because it wasn't working right. We tried it in the demo Xbox, and although it wasn't defective in any way, I can tell you that this game is not at all user friendly. Controlling the robots is not an easy task. You can move them forward, backward and side to side, (in kind of a side step sort of way) with the left stick, but you are only controlling the bottom half of the robot. The top half rotates 360 degrees, and pans up and down with the right stick. But before you can make any movement with the right stick, you have to stop moving using the left stick, therefore, you can't run and turn at the same time. It's very cumbersome. We never did figure out how to fly. I went through the game manual and found it to be useless as far as the controls of the game. To me, a game isn't fun if you can't easily control the main character. My customer didn't think so either... we allowed him to return the game for another title because we all thought Mech Assault was so bad.

Fun, but hard to call MechWarrior

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As someone who has been with this and the BattleTech franchises from the very beginning (yes including the FASA paper games), my main complaint with this game is the lack of customization capability for your Mechs.. Forget about it, b/c it just isn't here.. You'll get to choose between pre-set Mechs and that's largely it.

That being said, the game is graphically impressive and it IS fun running around blowing everything up. It's a good one for the "ooOOoo", "Ahhhhh"s of watching a skyscraper fall OUTSIDE of real life..

Whoever says this is the best Live game ought to try others

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I first rented this game before I had Live just to see how it played, and I was dissapointed. There were no midlevel saves and it was long and tedious to destroy enemy mechs.

Now that I have Live, I decided to rent it again since almost all critics seem to praise this title as the best Live game available. I can honestly say that these folks have never played anyother Live game such as Ghost Recon or Unreal Championship!!! Though online is better, it does suffer from the same aspects as the single player mode, it is way to hard to destroy mechs. It is a good idea to play through the single player campaign to unlock the stronger mechs and so you can see the stats of other mechs available, but it will end up being more of a stuggle than fun. Also, the enemy can always hear what you say on Live, which elliminates a large amount of potential strategy, but does allow for stronger communication to others. You can press a button to talk only to teammates, but very few bother with this.

This game isn't compltely bad though, playing mutiplayer and watching 8 mechs explode in your face is quite entertaining. And there is alot of potential to this title. Some improvements I'd like to see in MechAssault2 would be 1st person perspective (sense of size would be better), a health bar over opponents so you can see how much life they have left, midlevel saves, and voice chat switched so you always talk to your team and have to press a button to talk to enemies.

Eventhough if you ask people online which XBL game they feel is best 99% say Ghost Recon, many people here seem to enjoy this title. So maybe I'm not seeing what they are. I reccomend picking up GR with your Starter Kit and if you have a few extra pennies, go with Unreal as well. But at least save this one for a rental.

BETTER HAVE XBOX LIVE

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

unless u have xbox live or are planning to get it soon this game is only good for rental. The graphics r very nice but the replay value is very low. you'll find urself finished with the game in a day or 2. the only levels fun enough to replay is the first half of the game because the 2nd half is in a sloppy looking volcano environment. u can play multiplayer mode but unless u have 3 other people its not as fun. there r only a few maps and a few modes which get old fast. i do not have xbox live and probably won't be getting it anytime soon and there is downloadable content like maps and new mechs and it kind of [stinks] that i will be missing out on those. so just just rent this game b4 u plan on anything else

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