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Mechwarrior 3: Pirate's Moon

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1 star:		(3)

 

 

MechWarrior 3 Expansion improved on the original in lots of ways.The enemy mechs now try to circle fight you which makes them harder to kill. The new weapons are awsome!There are six new mechs-3 of which are extremely destructive...

There are lots of little improvements such as after you land from doing a jump jet, your throttle doesn't go to 0.

The new levels in the game are very cool, especially at night.Your lancemates are also a lot smarter.

I have a celeron 466, 128MB RAM, and a voodoo3 3000 video card and the game performs flawlessly with every single graphics option turned on so I know it will work good on slower systems.In conclusion if the original MW3 left you wanting more, get this game and you will be satisfied

The game is a valuable addition to the original MechWarrior3 release. The colors are great; the tribal theme music sets the perfect mood, and the additional features and fixes are welcomed. In addition, the large maps are filled with details and good hiding spots. The non-elemental enemies will now actually use their Jump Jets. A couple of nifty multi-player scenarios have been added (like protecting and destroying team bases), giving online folks more options to consider that the usual "Who can circle around the enemy and avoid being hit the longest" shtick. Players will find that they will really want to take the new Mech's available in this game back to Tranquil, but will be frustrated that they cannot do so. On the downside, the Mech's torso-twist has a softer, less tactile feel. The UAC20's weapon range has been reduced to 260 meters, which is a bummer for those who play online. It seems that the armor and heat management rules have been slightly tweaked. Watch out when you lose a right or left torso; when this happens now, the weapons are gone in those areas as well; an oversight in the original game that has been addressed here. The new weapons are valuable, but only effective in those scenarios where employing them makes sense. There is no introductory cinema, and instead of receiving your mission objectives from the MFB's, you are instead forced to accept the role of an existing pilot whose voice is apparently your own. I found this to be unnatural, but of course it does not hinder game play. Salvage allocation management is still tedious, and I always feel like I'm at work doing an actual job at this point. The story line is interesting and has a political twist. But overall, this is the game to own if first person shooter games and immersion in the futuristic BattleTech universe is your niche. One last thought: some of the campaign missions are much more challenging than those in the original game, and will require some real skill to complete. Those who'll want to get to the end of it quickly will likely need to do so on the easy setting. One can always increase the difficulty level later once the scenarios are better understood.

I think Bushmaster the other reviewer is crazy. Mechwarrior is a great game. It has good graphics, superb level design, and lots of weapons, levels, and enemies. And Mechwarrior 3:Expansion definetely lives up to Mechwarrior 3's great gaming prowess.

I just finished the first campaign and am starting the pirate campaign. It has new features (like night missions and headlights) several new weapons and 6 new mechs (Direwolf/Masakari) (Ryoken/Storm Crow) (Clint IIC) (Centurion) (Awesome) (Atlas) (and elementals) If you bought Mech3 and liked it, you have to get this!

Well Bushmaster really is mental,he doesnt understand that they put the slip EXPANSION PACK on the game so people wont be expecting a whole new game with new graphics and huge updates.

If they didnt have Expansion Pack on it well of course id be with Bushmaster but they had it on... Anyway

()to the point()

This game is quite good,i find the mechs are quite excellent too.theres just one mech that i dun think could hold its ground against 5 apcs but its quite good...and if you DO look close enough you can see the graphics are just a tiny bit improved.Though nothing to MW4 this is a great addition to the Mech Warrior series expansion and can really warm the story from MW3 up a bit.

This is a game worth the money.

()Put em up Bushmaster put em up!!()

If you are a single player person who is looking for some more action out of the Battletech games this is a fine addition to the collection. The addition of mechs, weapons and improved graphics will be quite pleasing. However for Multiplayer MechWarriors this is probably not the product to buy, the MW3 CD still sits in my computer for internet play as well as LAN games.

This is by far the best Mechwarrior game so far, having played them all and a player of Battletech Game World (RPG) I have found this game to be most accurate and enjoyable. I hope they provide more games that are enjoable as Mechwarrior 3 series. The expansion is much harder then the first game, and not full of bugs as Mercenaries. I highly recommend this game to all who enjoy the Battletech Gamimg World!

Yes, the campaigns and bonus mission are winnable by the average player at hardest setting, without needing mission replays. A critical factor is selecting correct weapons for the environment. Got water? I'm standing in it using ERPCs & ERLLasers... can't do that on land, heat shutdowns. Learn to sling LRMs and TBolts 'over the horizon' against targets not in direct line of sight (don't waste them against heavy AMS or lateral runners). Use crater rims, ground cover to shield against devastating incoming TBolts. You want an Atlas or Supernova as early as Mission 3? Be creative. After M2 says it's complete, go back to enemy base and leg more salvage. The how-to is involved, but it can consistently be done. Also, save 'the good stuff' (ammo) for later missions. Next to last mission, nothing devastates charging assault mechs like 3 Clan Gauss Rifles and ERPPC, while using C3 to direct lance mates against back door attackers beyond your own radar. Use common sense. Carry ECM and don't stand still, vs. headshot artists. As other reviewers have noted, it's an expansion pack, not a full game. As such, it's definitely a worthy effort. This game will make anyone who masters it a more skillful pilot/player!

There are too many night [flying blind] missions. The landscapes and missions are repetitive. Some missions are almost impossible to complete successfully. Mech 3 deserves a much better add on.

What a waste of money. I like a challenging game, but this is rediculous. Set on the lowest difficulty, some of the missions are nearly impossible to accomplish.

The first mission of the game, you have a choice of one medium (50 tons) mech, and two lights (35 tons each) for two pilots. Then you proceed to face, not one, but two Thors, which outweigh you by 20 to 35 tons.

On the second mission, again, you are facing much heavier mechs than you have access to, and if you stray too close to the enemy base, you end up with an assault lance on your trail. Did I mention that the enemy is using pretty much all Clan mechs?

The third mission you have to protect a base. If you can get there before the enemy wipes it off the face of Vail that is. You have to run all out to TRY to get there first, and then you face off with several heavy mechs, while the enemy Ryoken is tearing things apart.

On the fourth mission, you have to protect a convoy, which generally gets destroyed before you ever get relatively close to it. Even if you get close, they have destroyed more than half of it, and you will have your hands too full to try to find out which mech is taking out the trucks. Either way, you tend to lose over, and over, and over, and over.

What it seems like is that they traded a variety of missions with having to play the same one over and over until you actually beat it. Each of the missions you have to flat out run to get where you have to be, or you will lose. No options. No choices. Had I known that it was so unballanced, I would never have wasted my money on this game.