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DDM_Salvatoris
Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:27 am


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The video says "in game footage" across the bottom the whole time. ;)

While they are looking for a distributor, you gotta understand that JW is filthy rich, Wizkids games made him as much money as Mechwarrior ever did. S&T can fund development for a good part of the process.  

It's been almost Two years now since he got the FASA IPs back from Microsoft.  We are all getting accustomed to the super long development cycle of MMOs, but remember that before Microsoft shelved the mech franchise, we were getting a new game every two to three years.  Mechwarrior three and Mechwarrior 4 launched in 1999 and 2000.  While it wasn't what we were looking for, Mechassault launched the same year as Mercs, with it's follow-up two years later.

Another big factor is that Piranha Games just finished a transformers game. I know there is a big step between the two, but a lot of graphics assets are the same.  If you watch any of the videos of the Transformer game, you'll see that the explosion and weapon effects look the same, the cars even look the same.
