It's a mod for Crysis. check it out at
www.mechlivinglegends.net
it's a pretty damn good mech game... some bugs to overcome and you can't expect controls to be familiar right away... but everything is there. Lots of mechs and vehicles, a couple of different aerospace and VTOLs. They have most of the mech equipment in the beta... masc, ECM, tag, narc and AMS. All the systems work like they should. You have limited ammo, heat management, passive / active radar. It's forced first person, all the time. You always have the cockpit view in mechs, but depending on the optics package, you can zoom to different levels and get a pretty clear screen for targeting.
All the weapons are in game and the effects are awesome. The mechs have all the correct damage sections, you lose the left torso and the weapons in that section go with it, you can blow off arms and external weapon pods. Somehow you can even get slowed partially from damage, even short of being legged... which you can also do. When you are legged you can fight from prone, you are limited to what you can see with torso twist... you can also just get out of your mech and fight as a power armor or elemental... or blow someone out of their cockpit and take their mech. You can take mechs back to the bay in the base to repair and reload. You start each life with a set amount of money, based on the rank you have obtained in that map. There are 7 0r 8 ranks, and you move up pretty fast. You go up a level with each of the first few good kills. It's attrition type points, so you get credit for damage as well as kills. I think you get way more stripping a mech than just killing a power armor. You can also share the money you get between your team members, so you can have a few guys in heavies right away. You also get to buy extra weapons for your dood when he is a battle armor.. like a rotary canan, hand held PPC, narc beacon, flamer. You can do some serious damage in as an elemental. A lot of people are running arouns as them instead of mechs... which is cool because it makes use of all the weapons on a mech. If you were to just boat LRMs (which have a minnimum range) you could get eaten up by elementals up close.... so the machine guns have an actual use in this one.
on the downside... joystick controls are a little limited. mainly because there is no GUI to set them... you have to edit a text file or download one someone has posted for your stick. KB and mouse controls are pretty good, throttle can be hard to manage until you get some practice at it. The game is pretty resource heavy, and has some stability issues overall... but if you can live with an occasional crash or graphics bug, it isn't really all that bad in terms of performance.
gameplay is pure, concentrated awesome. I like it anyway... if you couldn't tell.
I haven't got Crisis... I'm bummed man, bummed out...
