However, MechWarrior is only half about the giant stompy robot combat. I never played the original MechWarrior, but I did play Abrams Battle Tank, and the similarities in the first-person combat sequences are uncanny. They also made Abrams Battle Tank, a tank simulator game that shares much of its engine with MechWarrior. Dynamix would eventually be bought-out by Sierra On-Line, creating both Tribes and Earthsiege as their subsidiary, but back in 1989, they were known for creating flight simulators like A-10 Tank Killer, F-14 Tomcat, Arctic Fox, and Red Baron. While Activision published the game, it was created by a humble team of 17 dudes working at Dynamix Inc. Back in the day, the evils of microtransactions and rushed development cycles weren’t nearly as prevalent, so Activision was just another little fish in the nascent pond of PC gaming. MechWarrior was originally published in 1989 by a little company called Activision-you might know them as the massive game corporation that’s slowly eating Blizzard Entertainment alive right before our very eyes. Starting with the original first-person ‘Mech combat simulator, MechWarrior. So instead of a pseudo-review where I start tossing out crazy things like numbered scales, we’re going to just look at the game’s history and see what it contributed towards modern MechWarrior titles. That and nobody likes having their childhoods shit on, no matter how awful the sound effects were. I understand that some of these classic games might not quite be the shining jewel of digital accomplishment when compared to more modern ‘Mech games, but at the time they were real accomplishments that should be respected for the stepping stones they were. We’re going to switch things up a bit due to some… we’ll call it “negative feedback” that was given during my last foray into the Crescent Hawks Inception. Welcome back to Sarna’s retrospective on classic BattleTech video games! I’ll be your host as we look back on some of the games that made BattleTech and MechWarrior the storied franchises they are today.
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