You can swap weapons to fit your playing style and even replace engines and scale armor up or down. The mechs themselves are completely customizable. But, if you manage to complete a mission meant for three heavy mechs using only one medium mech, the game rewards you heavily with honor points. If you max out your squad on the allowed tonnage and mech number on each mission, you'll get relatively few honor points. You earn honor points based on your performance in each mission but the number of mechs you bring with you and their total tonnage also affects your honor point total. While this eliminates the mercenary and resource hoarding part of the original MechWarrior, it also gives you a lot of freedom in customizing your raiding party for each mission. The heart of gameplay is in mech combat and, despite some flaws and overlooked details, this is where the game truly shines.įrom the beginning, you have the entire range of mechs and parts available to you. The war is one of the most important developments in the Battletech storyline and the game manages to convey that epic feeling somewhat successfully through the before and after mission briefings. Whereas MechWarrior dealt with a storyline that on the global Battletech scale was relatively minor, MechWarrior 2 gives you a chance to play as either Clan Jade Falcon or Clan Wolf in the Clan Refusal War. But MechWarrior 2 takes the genre so far above previous efforts that it has become the new high watermark by which all other giant robot simulators will inevitably be judged. The concept has been tried before, most notably with the original MechWarrior. All in all, a superb game.MechWarrior 2 is perhaps the single most important game in defining giant robot simulators. The soundtrack can be played on a regular CD player, which was kind of a novelty at the time. I must note that the soundtrack, by Jeehun Hwang and Gregory Alper, is a true masterpiece, and won an award for best soundtrack. Add to that an extensive library in the Clan archives which players can access in the main Clan Hall, and no new-comer to the series can ever complain about the fact that they have no clue as to what this game is all about.
In between missions, players are treated to a wealth of information which is based on the Battletech novels and source books. Although the eventual outcome of the conflict has no basis in Battletech literature, it does give you a good impression of Clan life.
Fighting as a Clan Mechwarrior, you battle a rival clan for the fate of the Inner Sphere.
One of the first games I bought for the PC, 31st Century Combat is THE game that sparked my love for anything Battletech related, and game soundtracks.
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