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Boring......

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: November 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the most boring game I've ever played. I got really sick of blowing up buildings after the first 10 minutes. Going on line was even worse. You pretty much just run around in circles trying to kill people. I don't know how this won the Game of the Year award. Maybe it's fun for little kids, but for anyone who's enjoyed a game like Tribes, I think you'll find Mech Assault to be extremely boring.

Just plain sucks... a lot

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Mech Assault is a terrible game. The graphics are below the low-end for X-box, this game wouldn't even impress a PS2 owner.
The sound is completely horrible and annoying, you hear the constant squealing of your mech's legs as you walk, and you have to stop and wonder to yourself "what in the hell is that annoying screeching sound?"
The gameplay is so simple, you basically find an enemy, and you both circle around eachother seeing who can unload the most missles in the shortest time period. You don't even have to aim, so there's no skill involved.
This game is a complete waste of your time and money, do yourself a favor and pass on "Mech Assault"

Install Linux!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 55
Date: September 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If your Xbox has not been patched to fix a certain bug, this allows you to install Linux.

I have no comment on the game itself. I don't buy Microsoft stuff.

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.

this game stinks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: November 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

nothing like the pc sim. Maker should not have put it in the "Mech" line of games, maybe a better title would be Robot Attact for Kids. This is a kiddie game. 'nuff said.

Promised features are missing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There is an important feature missing from this game that was promised before it was released: the ability to design your own bases and use them in multiplayer. Like I said, there is nothing like this in the game. SO you can imagine why I'm disappointed.

The single-player game is alright, but the game is most fun on XBox live. If you don't have Live, then don't worry about missing out on this game, it doesn't have much to offer you.

I'm also glad I own this game because you will need it if you want Linux on your XBox. That's right, thanks to a save-game exploit in this game, you can load the Linux operating system onto your XBox. If your curious about this, vist http://www.xbox-linux.org/

Do Not Buy This Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you look at how many people are selling this game used you can tell that it stunk. Anyone who is a hard core MechWarrior fan will agree with me. The idea for MechWarrior by the orignal game designer was a game to be played on a COMPUTER with a JOYSTICK and not a gamepad. Also the to fire the PPC you shouldn't have to hold the butten to let them recycle, you should be able to fire right away.(this feature should really be for the bombast laser). The one thing that I did like about this game is that the weapons are made by different conmanies ie arrow IV missles. TO sum it up this game fall short of expatations and Microsoft should do something about it.

NOT Mech Warrior!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: March 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you have played the original Mech Warrior on the PC DO NOT waste your money on this one!

I grew up playing FASA's Mech Warrior on the PC. Too bad FASA went out of business and Micro$oft bought some of their games.

The only thing this game has in common with the original game is in the name and concept; as far as game play is concerned it SUCKS! Mech Assult is no where near what the original PC game was and is a total disappointment.

I have found that a lot of games that are supposed to be so great on the XBox are a disappointment when compared to the older PC and Play Station-1 games. Yes the graphics on the XBox are great but the content is lacking; too bad some of the old game programmers are not around anymore to write games for the XBox, it could be so great but...

Saying this game is OK is streching it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 19
Date: February 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has some good qualities:
graphics - very good, especially explosions and weapon effects - 4.5

sound - pretty good effects, but horrible music

lots of mechs.

that's all I can think of, here is what I don't like about the game.

Simplicity - The game has depth, but everything is so simple. There is no reason why custom mechs where left out, people with xbox live are more likely to be adults and own computers than anyone other audience. There are only four buttons you need to use, and while learning tactics of a certain mech will take time, the gameplay overall does not change.

Complete Lack of modes - You'll be lucky to see anyone play the game Not It. The only 2 modes availible are deathmatch/team deathmatch. That is ridiculous for an online game today. Basically all it is kill everyone, while that is how unreal plays modes like bombing run and double domination are very appreciated once learned. Gets old fast. Speaking of lacking, the selection of maps is terrible, there is around 6, a few which are very similar to eachother.

Horrible Balance - Adding to my thoughts that the game was rushed, the Mad Cat is the most overused and cheesiest mech on xbox live. How can you have a mech with DUAL ppc's, quad rockets, and a high machine gun, WITH Target Jamming!! The fun of going online has been eliminated for me, because all you see is people with no skill use ragnarok's and mad cat's all the time. The game can be fun when people choose mech's that take expirience to play.

Buggy xbox live support - who's ever heard of an online game that kicks everyone out after every round...or one that kicks out someone every other time in team destruction. or one that lets you hear the opponents speech in team destruction. play this to find out.

One player mode is no good - It really takes 4 hrs. gametime not counting repeats to get through it, and really I haven't even cared to finish it, it's just so boring and scripted(will anyone learn from halo). Microsoft should not be releasing PC style online games on a console unless they have a solid one player game, because really under 5% of xbox owners have access to xbox live.(the 2-player game isn't fun, why not include bots or something??)

And the final straw which motivated me to write this review, as of 2/1 none of the promised january downloable content has shown up, something in my opinion this game really needed.

Its missing..... oh yeah the FUN!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: January 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This isn't a bad game and I'm sure people new to the series will enjoy it. But be warned if you're looking for the type of gameplay you'd expect from a 'mech game (mechwarrior 3 & 4) you are out of luck. You cannot mod your 'mech (thats right not at all). In most missions you can't even choose which mech to go into battle with. Phantom Crash might be a better choice for those of you out there that enjoy a little more freedom in gameplay. The only reason to purchase this game is if you have XBOX live, otherwise you'll soon be bored of the 19 levels this game has to offer.

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