Description of MechWarrior Probably the very first giant robot game that can proudly claim to be a simulation than a straightforward action shooter, Mechwarrior is a great game set in FASA's famous BattleTech world of giant robots. It was, and still is, one of the best BattleTech games ever made.
For a Mechwarrior, War is Life. And Death is the only True Peace. Product information ASIN B0007ZGTBW Best Sellers Rank #138,395 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games) #1,481 in Mac-compatible Games: Pricing The strikethrough price is the List Price. Savings represents a discount off the List Price. Product Dimensions 3.5 x 5.25 x 1.25. No, it isn't possible because Microsoft owns the Mechwarrior liscence, it has nothing to do with CryEngine. While that may make sense in a market kind of view, the CryEngine is a Direct X game, and there are no Direct X API's for any OS beside Windows. So it's probably both. Only vanilla MechWarrior 2 (and NetMech) was ever ported to it, and you could have trouble installing it on a newer version of the Mac OS. Your best shot is using Boot Camp or run a Windows virtual machine. For me, the best part about MechWarrior 3 is the Instant Action mode. In this mode, you pick your mech and you are free to tinker with it in many ways. You can set it so that it is very powerful. You then can pick the enemies you want and just have at it.
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Description of MechWarrior
Probably the very first giant robot game that can proudly claim to be a simulation than a straightforward action shooter, Mechwarrior is a great game set in FASA's famous BattleTech world of giant robots. It was, and still is, one of the best BattleTech games ever made.
In this game, you play a young man whose reputation has been soiled by an evil usurper. You have five years to build a force of giant robots and great pilots strong enough to attack your foe. Take on mercenary missions for any one of the 5 houses from the first generation world of FASA's BattleTech (Kurita, Davion, Steiner, Marik, Laio). The missions themselves take place from first-person perspective, in 3D-rendered worlds, where you pilot your robot, fighting other robots of the same ilk.
Gameplay, based on Dynamix's excellent physics model used in its early flight sims, is top-notch. Robots move convincingly, and the 3D polygonal graphics are exciting for its time. Add some slight roleplaying, team building, planetary intrigue, and goofy EGA pictures of non-player-characters and you've got a great classic that goes a long way toward immersing you in its world. The role playing was primarily textual - reading paragraphs, choosing between fight or run, and then being killed or moving on accordingly. The game's main focus, robot fighting, is very exciting. Combat usually lasts under 10-20 minutes because the maps are small, the opponents are few, just with less dense graphics and more abbreviated gameplay.
Overall, Mechwarrior is a must-have for anyone even with a slight interest in giant robot games. It sets the standard for other games in the giant robots genre, and its role-playing elements are sorely missing from today's mech games where the focus has shifted to strategy and 3D graphics than plot and atmosphere. Two thumbs up!
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N2020-02-200 point
Thank you so much! This is trip to memory lane! I felt young again!
Scarecrow1072019-08-25-2 points
Hello. I have the game working and changed the config file, but the game runs at lighting speeds. How do I get the game to play at it's normal speed? During combat, everthing moves as if in fast forward, my mech and the enemy mech. I can't complete even one mission. Thanks. I hope someone is still looking at these posts.
MekBanditR2019-04-252 points
here is download link to preconfigured preinstall of first mechwarrior game for dos and yes i give myabandonware.com permission to make use of this file for their site: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/292885066789683200/548447111566458895/MechWarrior.rar
MekbanditR2019-04-061 point
At the Battletech Retro Gaming league discord chat server we have in our download channel a preinstalled dos copy of this game. if you wish to access it here is invite link to our discord chat server: https://discord.gg/rxrddpA
BWyuh2018-07-060 point
I bought this game when it first came out. Stayed up late nights playing it. Won it. played it again. This game still rocks!
GUY FAWKES2017-07-070 point
I found a fix for the codes here: http://www.mobygames.com/game/mechwarrior/hints/hintId,6/
not sure if it works.
Guy Fawkes2017-07-061 point
Also does anyone have a crack to disable the annoying input codes?
Guy Fawkes2017-07-062 points
Does anyone else think it odd that it gives you 'Tandy MT-32' and 'Roland'? Shouldn't it be 'Tandy' and 'Roland MT-32'?
Alex2432016-01-131 point
sorry for my grammar
Alex2432016-01-131 point
Thanks for the help, but do u play it on D-Fend because I did the step but it play's on a small screen and I cant full screen it play, also its no on my D-Fend
Crypto1372015-12-151 point
Fix for hang up without using a frontend. (Thanks BOOPY for this final solution)
*try midi setting 'mpu401=uart' in conf.*
For Windows 7 and maybe others:
-Go to where your DOSBox is installed
-Open 'DOSBox 0.74 Options'; Select All; Copy
-Open Notepad; Paste
-Go to the midi setting and change 'mpu401=intelligent' to 'mpu401=uart'
-Save as 'gamename.txt' inside your Mechwarrior folder
-Copy a new shortcut for the DOSBox App
-Right-click, go to Properties, and set Target with file locations similar to this:
'DOSBox.exe location' -conf 'new notepad txt location'
Example of my target:
'C:Program Files (x86)DOSBox-0.74DOSBox.exe' -conf 'C:GamesMechwarriormechwarMW_1.txt'
-Rename your new shortcut to 'MW-DOSBox' or something of the sort
-Now drag your 'MW.exe' application into your new MW-DOSBox shortcut and the game shouldn't hang up anymore.
I hope this helps and is not too confusing :)
kampf762015-10-280 point
@ boopy
Thank you very very much!
Boopy2015-01-184 points DOS version
i found a solution of hang after mission.
try midi setting 'mpu401=uart' in conf. (using frontend like D.O.G is easiest way to change conf settings.)
it works fine on DosBox 0.74
Frank2014-07-07-1 point DOS version
I had the same problem playing the game, but I read elsewhere it works better with DOSBox 0.61. Sure enough, using this version of DOS Box solves the problem of it hanging with a blinking cursor after missions. Now I'm mech-ing it up left and right!
This is FAECES2014-05-24-3 points DOS version
It can't be worse than MW2, can it?
mazmur2014-04-080 point DOS version
nice blog
Krioni2014-02-280 point DOS version
I'm having the same issue as Colonel. Screen goes black with a blinking cursor in the top left.
Anyone know the solution?
Raider Marine2013-11-080 point DOS version
awesome game, needs to be played
OM2013-02-032 points DOS version
...Jeez, kids these days. Try speaking a *real* language, ya thugs.
yung buck2013-01-190 point DOS version
DOPE GAME YO!! CHECK IT OUT MANG!
peace homies.
yung buck put em up, riding high
Colonel2012-11-160 point DOS version
Having problems after killing my first mech, the game seems to hang up.
After killing the first mech, the screen goes black with a blinking cursor (like it's going to go to another screen) but it just sits at the blinking cursor..
any ideas?
Vryus2012-07-100 point DOS version
I loved this game as a kid. My friend and I used to play the board game (BattleTech, not the MechWarrior RPG). I used to sit in front of the screen manning the guns on the keyboard. My friend would sit next to me with the old Tandy joystick. We would run as many missions as we could that way. So much fun!
The only funny quirk- You can take out almost anything in a Locust by running up to it (even the leg of a BattleMaster) and then just pounding like heck on the machine guns until you blow the leg out.
So much fun!
quickrick2008-08-290 point DOS version
this game is awsome i remember playing it as a kid and i enjoyed playing again. it was better as an adult becaus i payed attention to the story.
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| MechWarrior | |
|---|---|
| Genre(s) | Vehicle simulation Vehicular combat |
| Developer(s) | Dynamix Activision Zipper Interactive FASA Interactive Tsunami Visual Technologies Wandering Samurai Studios Personae Studios Piranha Games |
| Publisher(s) | Activision Hasbro Interactive Microsoft Personae Studios Infinite Game Publishing Piranha Games |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Sharp X68000, PC-98, Super NES, Sega Genesis, Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Arcade, iOS |
| First release | MechWarrior 1989 |
| Latest release | MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries December 10, 2019 |
MechWarrior is a series of video games set in the fictional universe of BattleTech.
Games[edit]
Within the MechWarrior games, players take control of a single BattleMech and combat other BattleMechs, tanks, infantry, and more, from within the cockpit of their machine. A third-person alternate view is available in MechWarrior 2, 3, 4, Online, and 5. Both MechWarrior 2 and MechWarrior 3 were Origins Award winners, taking Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Computer Game 1995 and Best Action Computer Game 1999 respectively. MechWarrior: Living Legends was the recipient of the ModDB2009 Mod of the Year[1] and - due to rules preventing one mod from winning the same award twice[2] - an Honorable Mention in 2010. MechWarrior: Living Legends is not an actual MechWarrior mod, but rather a complete conversion of a completely unrelated game, Crysis Warhead.[3]
In-universe timeline[edit]
- MechWarrior takes place at the end of the Third Succession War.
- MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, Ghost Bear's Legacy, Mercenaries, and MechWarrior Online deal with the events soon before, during, and soon after the Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere.
- MechWarrior 3 and MechCommander are concerned with different parts of 'Operation Serpent' and 'Operation Bulldog', the combined Inner Sphere counterattack against the Clans, targeted at the Smoke Jaguars.
- MechWarrior 4: Vengeance, its expansions, and MechCommander 2 deal with the Federated Commonwealth Civil War.
- MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries takes place during the Third Succession War.[4]
Live-action film[edit]
Electric Entertainment, a Hollywood production company founded by Dean Devlin, currently holds the option to produce a feature film based on the MechWarrior universe.[5] In 2003, Devlin approached Paramount to pitch the project but failed to receive funding. The project is currently in development limbo.[citation needed]
References[edit]
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- ^'ModDB.com 2009 Mod of the Year winners'. webcitation.org: ModDB.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- ^'ModDB 2010 Mod of the Year awards and rules'. WebCite: ModDB.com, DesuraNET. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- ^'ModDB.com 2010 Players Choice Award'. webcitation.org: ModDB.com. Archived from the original on 23 April 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- ^MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
- ^Linder, Brian (2003-02-27). 'Coming Soon: MechWarrior Movie'. IGN. Retrieved 2009-07-11.