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by Mischief Maker 03/13/2005, 8:28pm PST

MechWarrior 2 vs. MechWarrior 4

MW2:
+ Great Background music
- Flat Polygon graphics
+ Complete control over mech loadouts
+ Featured the full suite of cool-looking mechs before FASA got sued for lifting them wholesale from Robotech
- Losing a leg meant floating into a one-legged standing position and standing in place
- No mid-mission ammo reloading. This was a huge incentive to use just energy weapons.
- Lasers shot in star wars-style bolts, making them feel like more colorful versions of balistic weapons with unlimited ammo
+ A whole novella of Battletech fiction was available for you to page through if you were so inclined, nerd.
- The novella had nothing to do with your particular mission and your missions feel completely disjointed from one another
- Mechs just kinda float across terrain and their only reaction to getting hit by enemy fire is lowering their armor stat.

MW4
- BG music not as good as MW2
+ Superior graphics in every way
- Weapon "hardpoints" rule added to prevent mech loadouts that don't look like they belong on the mech's model
- Seems like the only kinds of mechs FASA is able to come up with itself are barely-humanoid boxy bodies on gooney-bird legs.
+ Mechs react more realistically to leg damage
+ You can reload mid-mission, making autocannons and the like a more feasable weapon choice
+ Lasers fire in focused beams and feel totally different from cannons
- Crappy cutscenes with horrible actors that go on for hours but have nuggests of valuable info hidden in them, forcing you to watch.
+ Missions mesh smoothly together into a planetary conquest
+ Mechs move fluidly, react the the terrain they're covering, get violently shaken by incoming fire, and can be knocked on their ass by a powerful alpha strike, which is very satisfying.

Being published by hasbro means nothing. Hasbro aquired smartypants game developer microprose. Ion Storm, forever haunted by the ghost of daikatana, made deus ex. Fucking monolith made aliens vs. predator 2. Dipshit.

The problem with Mechwarrior 3 was its really short campaign.

Boring uninformative dipshit.