Why We Think MechAssault: Phantom War Is Worth a Second Look

MechAssault: Phantom War for the Nintendo DS is coming out on August 29! That’s only a few weeks from now!

But is it worth checking out? Well, we know that fans want their science fiction and fantasy games to have good stories (and be lots of fun), and the makers of MA:PW spent a lot of time making sure they got the BattleMech details down right (if you don’t believe us, you can check out the screenshots and the trailer).

First, let’s look at the messy universe where you take out your BattleMech and go Kaboom!Zap!Destroy! all over the place.

The story is set in the year 3134. Planets use HPGs (Hyperpulse Generators) to communicate across the vast distances of space. Then the HPGs mysteriously stop working. What happens when planets can no longer communicate with each other? A big mess, that’s what. Chaos. (Turn on the scary dramatic music.) A Dark Age. (Make the dramatic music louder.) The Phantom War. (Dah dah dum!)

Map from the MechWarrior universe

The game designers spent a lot of time reseaching the “MechWarrior: Dark Age” era, so you can expect this game to have lots of impact and depth. Also, a lot of teams worked together to make this an epic game. Backbone Entertainment developed MA:PW, but they worked with people from Microsoft (the company for the BattleTech electronic games) and WizKids (the company for the tabletop games and printed BattleTech works). They also worked with Day 1 Studios (the developers of MechAssault 2). They did all these to make sure that the art, the plot, the characters, the mechs, the planets, and everything else work together in the game as one huge playground for you to enjoy the Phantom War.

Oh. One last thing. If you’re left-handed there’s a feature for you to swap the controls so you can set up the buttons and stylus for left-handed play.

Ok. That wasn’t the last thing. Just had to say that many of our faithful readers here at QJ are pretty young, so maybe you don’t know that mech robots have been around since the early 1980’s. This is a huge science fiction universe that has sold millions of video games, tabletop games, books, figures, and collectibles (I like their stickers).

MechAssault: Phantom War for the Nintendo DS is coming out on August 29! That’s only a few weeks from now!

But is it worth checking out? Well, we know that fans want their science fiction and fantasy games to have good stories (and be lots of fun), and the makers of MA:PW spent a lot of time making sure they got the BattleMech details down right (if you don’t believe us, you can check out the screenshots and the trailer).

First, let’s look at the messy universe where you take out your BattleMech and go Kaboom!Zap!Destroy! all over the place.

The story is set in the year 3134. Planets use HPGs (Hyperpulse Generators) to communicate across the vast distances of space. Then the HPGs mysteriously stop working. What happens when planets can no longer communicate with each other? A big mess, that’s what. Chaos. (Turn on the scary dramatic music.) A Dark Age. (Make the dramatic music louder.) The Phantom War. (Dah dah dum!)

Map from the MechWarrior universe

The game designers spent a lot of time reseaching the “MechWarrior: Dark Age” era, so you can expect this game to have lots of impact and depth. Also, a lot of teams worked together to make this an epic game. Backbone Entertainment developed MA:PW, but they worked with people from Microsoft (the company for the BattleTech electronic games) and WizKids (the company for the tabletop games and printed BattleTech works). They also worked with Day 1 Studios (the developers of MechAssault 2). They did all these to make sure that the art, the plot, the characters, the mechs, the planets, and everything else work together in the game as one huge playground for you to enjoy the Phantom War.

Oh. One last thing. If you’re left-handed there’s a feature for you to swap the controls so you can set up the buttons and stylus for left-handed play.

Ok. That wasn’t the last thing. Just had to say that many of our faithful readers here at QJ are pretty young, so maybe you don’t know that mech robots have been around since the early 1980’s. This is a huge science fiction universe that has sold millions of video games, tabletop games, books, figures, and collectibles (I like their stickers).

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