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1995 video game

1995 video game

MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
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Developer(due south) Activision
Publisher(s) Activision[a]
Managing director(southward) John Spinale
Producer(s) Josh Resnick
Designer(due south) Sean Vesce, Zachary Norman
Author(s) Zachary Norman
Composer(due south) Gregory Alper
Jeehun Hwang
Series MechWarrior
Platform(s) DOS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn
Release DOS
July 24, 1995
Windows
Dec 1995
Mac OS
July 1996
PlayStation, Saturn
March 1997
Genre(s) Vehicle simulation game
Mode(s) Unmarried-player, multiplayer

MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat is a vehicle simulation game developed and published by Activision, released in 1995 as part of the MechWarrior series of video games in the BattleTech franchise. The game is set in 3057, and is played as a tactical simulation that incorporates aspects of real-time first-person combat and the physical simulation of the player'due south mech. It is a game recreation of the "Refusal War." The player tin join ane of the clans, Clan Jade Falcon or Clan Wolf while engaging in up to 32 missions.

The game was originally developed for MS-DOS and was ported to other platforms including Windows, Macintosh, and the game consoles Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation (as MechWarrior 2: Arcade Combat Edition ). The MS-DOS, Windows, and Mac releases share the same gameplay while the console versions tweaked the game'southward mechanics to emphasize arcade-way action over the tactical-simulation of the original PC release. Several enhanced versions were released to take reward of the 3D graphics accelerator cards that were available at the time. The game has a rendered introduction sequence produced by Digital Domain and its soundtrack was composed by Jeehun Hwang.

MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat received a follow-upwards expansion pack called MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy and a stand-lone expansion titled MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries. MechWarror 2 was critically well-received and its sales exceeded 500,000 copies within 3 months of its release.[1]

Gameplay [edit]

At the start of MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, the player must join either Association Wolf or Clan Jade Falcon, which are involved in the "Refusal War."[2] The game's battles take place on fictional extrasolar planets that are named in the franchise's approved media. Each battle has a goal such equally search-and-destroy, reconnaissance or a base of operations strike.[3] Initially, the player controls one mech and in later missions has access to squad commands.[3] Between missions, a mech lab allows players to customize the weapon, armor, engine and oestrus sinks of whatsoever drivable mech.[3] [4] : xiv

MechWarrior 2 is played every bit a tactical simulation that incorporates aspects of real-time offset-person combat and the physical simulation of the actor'south mech. The player can choose between several control modes that range from a bones "point and shoot" manner to an avant-garde style that allows the actor to independently manage the legs and trunk of the mech. The mech's on-board computer provides feedback ranging from the proximity of friendly and enemy forces to arrangement damage and armament depletion to the player, who must carefully manage oestrus buildup. The mech's estimator attempts to perform an emergency shutdown if heat levels rising likewise much only the player can override this. Rising temperatures caused by the repeated firing of weapons can crusade ammunition explosions and harm to the mech, including the loss of limbs, actuators, and the catastrophic detonation of the mech'south fusion engine.[4] : twenty–39 A version for Windows 95 includes NetMech software for thespian vs. histrion battles over a network or direct connexion.[iii]

Plot [edit]

MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Gainsay is set in 3057, shortly after the Boxing of Tukayyid between the Inner Sphere and invading Clan armies. The plot revolves effectually an ideological conflict within the Clans.[5] It focuses on the Clans Jade Falcon and Wolf, which stand for either Crusaders and Wardens, respectively. The Clans are the descendants of the Star League Defense force Forcefulness, virtually of which was led by their commander Aleksandr Kerensky into the unknown regions of space in an try to prevent the warring nations of the Inner Sphere from obliterating each other. These forces eventually splintered and formed xx groups called Clans, creating a guild based around warfare and creating warriors for their advanced BattleMechs. During the years of isolation, 2 ideologies divided the Clans; Crusader Clans wished to return to the Inner Sphere every bit conquerors, forcing the nations to unite and recreate the Star League. The Warden Clans believed the Clans should act every bit protectors of the Inner Sphere, only intervening if a threat of sufficient magnitude was encountered.

Somewhen, the Crusader faction won and the Clans returned to the Inner Sphere equally an invasion force containing a small fraction of the clans including the Jade Falcons, Clan Wolf, Smoke Jaguars and the Ghost Bears. The invasion force consisted of Crusader and Warden Clans, importantly Clan Wolf. The Wardens participated in an try to mitigate the damage caused past the Crusader Clans. The invasion continued until the invading Clans were challenged by the ComStar organization to a fight on the planet Tukayyid. If the Clans won, they would gain control of Terra, which was controlled by ComStar; if they lost they would halt the invasion for 15 years nether a truce. The Clans lost the boxing and their invasion was halted for 15 years. In the wake of the defeat, Ulric Kerensky, the leader of the invasion and warlord of the Clans, as well as a staunch Warden and fellow member of the Warden-leaning Clan Wolf, was charged with treason and accused of purposely losing past the Crusader elements of his Clan. They claimed considering Ulric was a Warden, he engineered the defeat to sabotage the invasion, and also accused him of genocide.

The ground Association law was "might equals right" and so matters could be settled by combat. Ulric challenged the Crusaders to uphold his condition within the Association Council and, every bit a result, maintain the Truce of Tukayyid. The Jade Falcon Clan, the strongest of the Crusader Clans and historic enemy of Wolf Association, took up the challenge. In the conflict, which became known as the Refusal War, the Jade Falcons fight to uphold the Council'south judgment of guilt, allowing an immediate resumption of the Invasion confronting the still-weakened Inner Sphere. Ulric and the Wolves, yet, are adamant to fight a war of extermination against the Falcons and weaken them so they cannot threaten the Inner Sphere.

Development [edit]

MechWarrior 2 was originally planned for a release in October 1994 but evolution issues, including an nigh-complete overturn of personnel in the evolution team, led to a series of considerable delays.[6] The game was originally developed for MS-DOS but was ported to other platforms including Windows, Apple Macintosh, and the game consoles Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation (every bit MechWarrior two: Arcade Combat Edition). The MS-DOS, Windows, and Mac releases share the same gameplay simply the console versions tweaked the game's mechanics to emphasize arcade-style activeness over the tactical-simulation of the original PC release.[7] [viii] [9] [10] Several enhanced versions were released to have advantage of the 3D graphics accelerator cards at the fourth dimension.[11] Its soundtrack was composed past Jeehun Hwang and its rendered introductory sequence was produced by Digital Domain.[four] : 79–81 [12]

The Saturn and PlayStation versions were developed past Quantum Factory.[xiii] Project coordinator Brian Clarke said they were adapting the game to appeal to a console gaming audience, adding: "Instead of doing a sim game, nosotros're making the crossover into a console type game, where it's more action-oriented and fast paced, and also doing things like calculation power-ups so it's more of an arcade experience. We're too calculation more than enemy mechs to each mission so there's a certain carnage element to the whole thing."[13]

Neither the Saturn nor PlayStation version is a port of the other; the code for each version was built from the ground up.[2] All 32 missions from the PC version were included in the panel versions, though some were shortened to maintain a fast pace.[13] These versions likewise include 16 new missions. Co-ordinate to producer Murali Tegulapalle, the team considered including missions from the Ghost Deport'due south Legacy expansion and MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries but decided considering those missions were designed with a PC gaming audience in mind, information technology would make more sense to design new missions in keeping with the console versions' overall philosophy of offering a more fast-paced experience than the PC version.[2]

Activision was too developing a version of MechWarrior 2 for the Panasonic M2, but this version was never released due to the counterfoil of the system.[14]

Expansion packs [edit]

MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy [edit]

MechWarrior 2: Ghost Carry's Legacy is the follow-upward expansion pack for MechWarrior 2 that was released in November 1995. The expansion pack allows players to play as Clan Ghost Conduct and gives access to 14 new BattleMechs, some new weapons, twelve new missions and some new environments, such as outer space and underwater. It too adds new songs to the soundtrack. If players complete the 12 missions of the regular campaign without being killed or failing 1 mission, they enter a five-mission competition for a "bloodname."

MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries [edit]

MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries was released in September 1996 every bit a stand-alone expansion to MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat; it is the terminal BattleTech game made past Activision. In Mercenaries, players have control of an Inner Sphere mercenary squad, with command over finances and complimentary choice of missions.

Reception [edit]

Sales of MechWarrior ii exceeded 500,000 copies within three months of its release.[ane] According to market research house PC Data, it was the twelfth-best-selling figurer game in the United States for the twelvemonth 1996,[23] later claiming sixth in the rankings for the first one-half of the year.[24]

MechWarrior 2 was critically well-received. Maximum lauded the cut scenes, graphics, training department, customizable mechs, music, and sound furnishings, but concluded by saying: "If you put all this great quality stuff together, information technology's nevertheless hard to explain what information technology is that really makes MechWarrior 2 strut. It could be something to practise with attending to item and a sense of continuity which combine to create a feeling of completeness. The game feels confident, it feels deep."[21] Side by side Generation called it "the best 'mech simulator currently bachelor" making item note of the rendered graphics and attention to detail in the game world. The reviewer complained at the fact that the initial release was single-histrion only, only noted that an add together-on disk for networked multiplayer was due out by the terminate of the month.[vii] GameSpot praised the game for its high-resolution graphics and its requirement of strategy and planning from the actor. The command complexity was likened to that of a flying simulator.[3] GameRevolution also noted the controls were not overly complex for a simulation and that a throttle-control joystick was peculiarly intuitive.[sixteen] NetMech had some problems with stability and smoothness.[3]

PC Gamer US named MechWarrior 2 the best action game of 1995 while Calculator Games Strategy Plus declared it the twelvemonth's top "sci-fi/fantasy sim" title.[25] [26] The editors of PC Gamer Usa wrote that "MechWarrior II has everything an activeness game needs—beautiful graphics; great sound effects; polish animation, fifty-fifty at high resolution; lots of options; and tons of firepower—all ready confronting the wonderfully rich background of FASA's Battletech universe."[26]

In the third quarter of 1995, Activision reported up to an hr's expect time to talk to their game counselors, chiefly due to a alluvion of calls from gamers asking for MechWarrior 2 hints.[27]

MechWarrior II won the Origins Honour for Best Fantasy or Scientific discipline Fiction Reckoner Game of 1995.[28] In 1996, Computer Gaming Globe ranked it as the 27th all-time game of all fourth dimension and called it "an amazingly immersive feel".[29] That same twelvemonth, information technology was likewise ranked as the 54th elevation game of all time by Next Generation.[30] In 2000, Calculator Games Strategy Plus named MechWarrior two 1 of the "10 Best Sci-Fi Simulations". The magazine's Steve Bauman wrote: "While subsequent games, whether it's the seemingly thousands of variations Activision released in its wake, or the more than recent sequel, feature better graphics and production, this is the still the benchmark."[31] In 2004, MechWarrior 2 was inducted into GameSpot's list of the greatest games of all time.[32]

Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot predicted the game's PlayStation version "will receive incomparably mixed reviews. Fans of the original will likely feel the game has been watered downwardly to appease the younger-skewing panel demographic."[17] Instead, reviews were overwhelmingly positive, and many critics outright praised the way the adaptation from PC to console was handled. For case, GamePro remarked, "The term 'PC port' often makes console gamers wince because many PC titles suffer severely in the switch. MechWarrior 2 deftly avoids that pitfall, ditching the complication of the classic PC sim in favor of gripping arcade-style mayhem."[33] Next Generation said, "Activision finally releases a console version that does the MechWarrior series justice. MechWarrior two for PlayStation is a faithful recreation of the PC title, although a few modifications were fabricated with the arcade-oriented console owner in listen. The combat arenas take been condensed to forbid unnecessary wandering around, and a non-entrada mode has been included for some quick, no frills fighting."[8] Gerstmann himself, while criticizing the appearance of the exploding mechs and the music, concluded that "For those of you who desire a quick-and-dirty combat simulator with a lot of things to shoot, and tin get by the bromidic graphics, MW2 fits the bill nicely."[17] Fifty-fifty Crispin Boyer of Electronic Gaming Monthly, 1 of the few to dislike the changes, summarized that "Although it has been dummied down a niggling from the PC original, Mech ii is still i of the well-nigh complicated and rewarding sims you tin can play on the consoles-and it's definitely the best console mech game bachelor."[15]

The Saturn version received similar disquisitional praise.[18] [10] [34] Sega Saturn Magazine 's Matt Yeo remarked, "Fans of the original PC game volition find little to gripe well-nigh hither, the game's much-heralded strategy elements having been retained ..."[10] GamePro stated that aside from "slight differences in graphics and command", the Saturn version is the same equally the PlayStation version.[34]

Soundtrack [edit]

The Mechwarrior 2 soundtrack received near-universal praise from game reviewers. The soundtrack was composed by Gregory Alper and Jeehun Hwang, and was said to create a new standard in video game music when it was released.[35] The music is stored as standard audio CD tracks, allowing the music to exist played on a standard sound CD player.

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Softbank published the Japanese Version of MechWarrior 2 on the Windows (under GameBank Label), Bandai Visual published the Japanese Version of MechWarrior 2: Arcade Combat Edition on the PlayStation and Sega Saturn.

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