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What A Let Down

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 57
Date: November 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of mechWarrior3 you are going to be really disapointed with 4. They are totally different games that share a similuar concept. You can forget building the mega killer Mech in this game. The Ultra 20 Auto cannon is gone, the largest is a 5. The Mechs have hardend weapon points that limit your ability to custom build what you want. Take the Thor for instance it has a missile rack on the torso. Well that torso is now a hard point for missiles only. Arm, and torso critical spaces have specified spots for specified weapon types. Its like you are being dictated too as to what you can put where. The Mech lab is poorly constructed, and much more difficult to keep up with your Mechs load out. Those of us that really enjoy the fast paced games of unlimited ammo and awesome auto cannon firepower in MechWarrior3 will have no place in MechWarrior4, we were not taken into consideration. I won't speak much on the graphics, they are great, but how can you enjoy the graphics of a game you cannot enjoy. The seven new mechs, full customability, all new terrain features, the 16 player on line game, what a let down. But the box is pretty cool looking.

doesn't do justice to the MW series, MS, or games in general

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: April 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game was a major disappointment for me. And I think that a lot of people who played MW3 will find it disppointing as well. The main problem I have with this game is the controls. I see people saying "oh, they have really simplified the controls!" but is that a good thing? No. Anyone who was thrilled as I was at the endless customization possible in the controls for MechWarrior 3 will be sorely disappointted at mw4. And anyone who prefers to play games like this with a keyboard/mouse setup will be disappointed. The game has added nuances that should be improvements over the previous installments, but fall short. It is almost like they spent too much time on appearance and not enough time on playability.

Specific problems I find with the controls are the way the 'Mechs turn. It is much more difficult to aim while turning in mw4 than in the previous versions. This makes using a stick that much more important. But the problem with using a stick is that it makes also using a mouse or trackball difficult. Since it is hard to aim with a stick, and it is hard to aim turing with a keyboard, you must forget everything that you used in mw2 and mw3 and "learn to pilot a 'mech all over again." In addition, certain controls can only be set up for certain things. This is different from mw3 in which you could set up any controller axis for any "analog" control... for example, if you wanted to set a control stick up/down to walk forward/backward, you could. If you wanted to reverse that axis, you could. MW4 lacks flexability.

I do not mind using a stick so much to make the game playable, but a stick has nowhere near as many buttons as the keyboard, so having everything at your fingertips is a thing of the past.

And one more thing: people say the graphics are so much better, but i do not see it. The 'mechs, buildings, etc, are in fact uglier to me than they were in MW3.

pros: (i can find little about this game that i would consider improvement over MW3, but i will try...)
-new 'mechlab setup makes 'mechs less customizable, but should reduce the "boating" so prevelant in previous versions
-weapons seem very balanced, perhaps over-balanced, which should produce more variety in configs from player to player
-lag is less of an issue, and "lag-shooting" is no longer necessary
-now have nightvision, but it sucks compared to the thermo vision in mw2
-no more worries about legging
-self-destruct and eject are now options

cons:
-opponents can now see what 'mechs you are bringing in multiplayer
-there is no "team chat" in multiplayer before the game is launched
-keyboard/mouse controls almost unusable
-controls not nearly as customizable as mw3 or even mw2
-game storyline is not nearly as interesting as mw2 or mw3
-graphics require a god-like agp to run (such as GeForce 2 or Radeon-this is not so bad now, but when the game was first released?)
-no more mfb's (there are, however, stationary repair bays)
-lancemate AI is still bad-they get stuck behind builings in city maps
-colors of weapons slots in the mechlab could cause annoyance for colorblind players (red for energy weapons, green for missile weapons)
-'mechs have internal structure, but the entire internal structure is connected. therefore, you cannot destroy a leg (or arm) until you destroy the entire internal structure of the mech. Unfortnately, this makes it easier to destroy a 'mech by shooting through the lighter armored parts.
-'mechs blow up no matter how they are destroyed (often quite annoyingly... since when do 'mechs explode after a clean head shot or a legging?)
-I could go on.

If you loved mw2 but were disappointed with mw3, you will probably love this game. but if you loved mw3, definitely play the demo first. You stand a good chance of tossing this game out the nearest window in frustration.

I . . . Can't believe it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game disappointed me. I was psyched up for something really sweet after MW-3, and instead, I got this arcade-like game. So here's my list...

Pro: (1) Remarkable graphics - Heh, MW3 was a bit ... messed up in places. (2) Short control-learning time - good for newbies, but I really miss some of the functionality of the old system.

Con: (1) Controls are imprecise - and don't even think of using a force feedback joystick... (2) For the life of me, I can't disable limbs. (3) The storyline isn't well thought out. For example; lessor techs come by and give you basic info. If some sub-ranking tech talked to a superiour like that, they'd be dead (in the series). (4) Networked play just isn't as much fun for me with this version - I think primarily because of the second "Con". (5) Eats processors alive. MW3 could run - albiet at a low resolution - on a Pentium 166. MW4 has trouble on my low end system even at low resolutions. (Pentium 3, 600MHz, Voodoo 3)...

Take a bag full of quarters to the arcade and have more fun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: May 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After playing through Mechwarrior 3, I could not wait to play 4. I downloaded the demo, and the graphics were beautiful, but the gameplay just wasn't as fun as 3. But I gave it the benifit of the doubt and thought the story in the full version would make up for it. I was very, very, very wrong. This has to be the most boring story ever. Not only that, the voice acting and videos are extremely boring and the actors just act like they don't care. Mechwarrior 3's voice acting was superb, everytime my commander in the MFB said something, i really made sure to listen. But geez, these guys just don't care. Plus the video quality is terrible compared to MW3, really choppy and botched colors. This is what microsoft does; they take a good name and try to make it all flashy and cute when it doesn't need it. Mechwarrior 3 was a true Mech simulation, this is just a flashy ... arcade game.

the worst game of the year

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: February 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought mechwarrior4 and started playing the training phase and that's where I realized the mistake of buying this game.If you use a SideWinder joystick you'll find that the throttle does not work as it did in the previous mech games,and there is little you can customize even when you get a clan mech,what's the deal?As you progress into the game you find yourself going against 4-5 mechs with two dunerheads for lancemates that might shoot you as well as the enemy. Fire control is pretty much a loss,and the targeting almost as bad,if I could talk to the makers of this I would ask them what they where thinking,it is really to bad that the games came to this end I have all the mechwarrior game and this one is the worst.

Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: December 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of Mechwarrior 3, but I am disappointed with Mechwarrior 4. The Mech lab seems more restricting, the mechs are harder to control, and it's difficult to tell how or what you're doing. I keep finding myself going back to Mech3 and leaving Mech4 on the shelf.

Not what I expected

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: January 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is a complete disappointment from the other Mech games. The new mechlab takes away a players creativeness by restricting the weapons a mech can carry. The controls are completely hideous. The only thing about this game that catches my eye is the graphics.

If you are a returning Mechwarrior, looking for another great game, then I don't recommend this one. Microsoft has taken a great line of games and completely screwed it up.

Fails to Run on Non-Administrator Accounts

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Warning: This program, like many other recent games (form Microsoft and others), will ONLY run on an account that has administrator privileges on Windows XP or 2000. That means that in most common home settings, school settings, or in public facilities with shared computers most users will not be able to play this game. If you have configured your home PC, for example, so that only you can perform potentially damaging administrative operations and have protected it from accidental damage by your kids by giving them "limited" accounts (a recommended "best practice" you should certainly be following), your kids will not be able to play this game. Similarly, if you have configured computers in a school in the obvious way, with only certain staff given administrative access and all others limited to "user-level" access, then only the administrators will be able to play the game.

Note that although I agree with the general consensus that Mech Warrior 4 is a fun game, my feeling is that it this limitation is a fatal one that should have been noted on the box (it is not) and thus I cannot give this product more than a single star, because it simply does not work in scenarios that it should be expected to work, and there are no warnings to this effect anywhere on the box or in the documentation.

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Can't Play What Won't Run

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: October 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have a brand, new state-of-the-art gaming PC and this game crashes it. Even under the more reliable Windows 2000, I even get an occasional bluescreen or unannounced reboot.

From the looks of the Event Log messages about bad blocks on the CD, I bet this problem has something to do with CD-ROM copy protection. With the ORIGINAL CD in the drive it crashes.

I'm noticing more game CDs that I can't make backup copies of. It's no coincidence that those same games are the ones that crash or hang on startup (when they check for non-standard sectors on the CD, I presume). I think game manufacturers should have to put a warning on non-standard CDs.

This game ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Been playing mechwarrior the day it was first releast,Then came mech 2 great for the time it came out. Then mech 3,the best of all.Then came mech 4,down hill it went.The game play ...,some one work overtime to over program the game.All the new keybord setting are bad,thay must think everyone is a key bord pro.I dont under stand why so many changes in the game play.Why did thay have to take a great game,and add so much bull to it.Mech 2,3.every thing was real close to the same,easy to controle.Why,Why did thay have to screw up a good game? All I can say for it,it has realy good grafics,and the disk makes a great place to set a cup of coffee.

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