Recent reviews by [NT*] Lukearoo

the mechanics of the game sometimes will feel inflexible and sometimes your rather limited tools will be frustrating. but overall I've enjoyed routing trains between stations.

I remember mechwarrior 2 and 3 fondly, ive looked into some of the games released under similar names in the eons since and they've failed to impress me for one reason or another, mostly in being multiplayer focused, which whilst im sure suited many players, was never that appealing in a mech game to me.
MechWarrior 5 mercenaries is a great return to what i loved about those older games, stomping about, causing havok, chewing up the scenery and brawling with other Mechs, equally eager and afraid of what i might run into next.
i am pleasantly surprised to find the controls have been streamlined, i used to have to have a key map to quickly look up which buttons made you go forwards and which pulled the emergency eject.

great but dont buy this till they add xen levels, its been a few years since i played the free version of this mod, and the improvements alone are not worth the asking price ( though i've no doubt the completed game absolutly will be ) by now i would have expected the xen levels to have been ready, or at least more warning that they where not ready before i forked out for something i technically already have about 3 versions of on my harddrive already.

rouguelike bullet sim with a bit more action than reciever, and a fair bit more direction too, looks a little bland at first but the colours warm on you quite quickly and the monsters get a little tougher and more varied as you go along

there are a few glitches i feel they could have fixed by the time i got around to playing it, jaggered performance in some places and a bad case of invisible character syndrome in at least one place, but the story is great, you might feel a little betrayed by the lack of choices given to you in some situations, but overall a worthwhile experience, great story (s), i really felt like i was there from time to time