MechWarrior 5

[A Black Falcon]

Yes, it's real! Stunning, amazing news, totally out of nowhere yesterday... but it's real, and some remnants of FASA are working on it.

Interview with key staff is up at IGN (read it!): http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/100/1002164p1.html

... Technically there's no number in the title, but there should be one, so I'm putting it in the thread title. I mean, it's a sequel. What's with this trend to drop numbers from sequels... but the AVGN covered that quite nicely recently in one of his videos, so I don't need to say more. :)

Anyway... the trailer, which is a blatant homage/ripoff of the classic MechWarrior 2 intro, in my opinion.

MechWarrior 5 trailer (full detail): http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/55194/PC...lash-Video

MechWarrior 2 intro for comparison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3GD0UnBCk

... Yeah, amazingly awesome news. MechWarrior 2 is the best mech game ever, and MechWarrior 3 was great as well... but the mech sim genre and the related space sim genre have both been completely dead pretty much this whole decade in the West (and on the PC), so this is very awesome... hopefully they go sim! What we've seen so far looks very promising though for sure... and wow is that an awesome trailer. :)

[A Black Falcon]

Just go watch that video, now. This announcement is one of the greatest things to happen in gaming so far this year... and it'll be even better if the game is actually good. :)

[Great Rumbler]

MechWarrior 4 and its expansions are being released for free in the near future.

[A Black Falcon]

Yes, and that is awesome. I'll be sure to download them...

But what do you think of the trailer? Good? What do you think, was the decision to do the trailer as a copy of the MW2 intro a homage, or a clone because they can't think of new ideas... hopefully it's the former. :)