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I�m a mech whore!!!
What more can I say, for as long as I can remember I have wanted to pilot a giant robot of some sort. And in the year of 2002 I finally get the chance. Don�t get me wrong there have been some very good games: Virtual On (Dreamcast), all of the Mechwarrior series (Pc, Playstation, Xbox) armor core (Playstation 1 and 2). And then there�s the baby bear of the next generation console (Mechassault) Xbox. This game gets the number 3 slot in my year 2002 line up. It�s a vary solid single player game with some of the best explosions I�ve seen in a long time, with a nicely evolving story and plenty of mech goodness to go around it would seem that the fun would never end, and it doesn�t. You want more? How�s this for starters, lets link up (I�ve got a hub and some cables) or even go online with game-spy or xbox live. But who need that when you got S&A, (you know what I�m talking about), people who play games and eat meat, (no veggies ha ha). On a few occasions we have gotten together to play Mechassault over a LAN, it�s a little slow getting started, but when you do get going it�s cool, 4 xboxes, 7 people, and lots of buildings coming down�it was fun for most (read Steve�s review, I�m still bitter). The only reason this game is #3 in the bunch for me is that I want to just kill mechs and watch them blow the hell up and take their friends with them and you only can do this in grinder, (your mech vs. other mechs) as a single player or grinder with a friend. But in the end of it all it�s a good game and you know what that means!! On the Kricket Scale it gets a solid 3-� KB�S |
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And so on to the second game in the bunch, or the uncle bear (no there is no momma bear). Which is Phantom Crash, (I love this game�hell yeah). To me this is the Gran Tursimo of mech games. One word: customize (somewhat like armor core). Yeah that�s right, I GET TO COSTUMIZE MY MECHS AND WEPONS OF MASS DISTRUCTION THEN TAKE OUT THE ENEMY. You don�t know what this means to me (sniff sniff). A laser, shotguns, cannons, it has them all and that�s just for the arms. Hell if I want I could put a drill, chainsaw, sword, on my mech. if I want. The only catch is you have to have the money to buy it, and the mech of your choice has to be under a specific weight requirement. You want more? The crash has it, there are three different companies who produce the mechs you pilot, all have different weapon types that are upgradeable and down gradable. The more you upgrade your weapon, the more damage it will do, but it will have less ammo, and its� the complete opposite if you down grade. And you can do this to any part of your machine. Arms, legs, body anything, and what sets the game apart from other mech games is the fast game play in large arenas. It only has three but that�s enough (trust me), and the custom animal chip. With this chip you give your mech a personality of its very own; I have a wolf chip who gives me sh-- all the time. It�s funny because this game had me at the intro (best. intro. ever.). This game is pure fun, not a sim and there is little story to speak of, but the replay ability is there. I have put some time in this game and it still has me coming back for more. The biggest down side is �no system link� in my opinion this blows. I want to play other people, like this guy who keeps talking sh-- (you know who he is). Other than that I don�t have too much bad to say about this game. It is fun all around and easy to pick up, but it�s too damn addictive (ask Steve and Aaron). And on another note this game is now 29.99�cheap. So on the kricket scale it gets a whopping 4 � KB |
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