Is Microsoft Making/Publishing a new MechAssault Game?

[MeiSooHaityu]

besides....MA is an abomination.....
the devs really didnt have a clue about BT.

i mean comon....they used the clan name and the IS name for a single chassis each with own loadout.
and the madcat/timberwofl was listed as a frickking 100 tonner.

as a mecha shooter..ya its ok.
but as battletech...it fails miserably.

Well...You know who worked on MechAssault?...This guy...


They did know about BattleTech .

The thing is they wanted to make an arcade action game with the BattleTech license. Something to fit the taste of the console gaming crowd at the time, and to promote and accentuate the Xbox live service. If MechWarrior was Star Wars Tie Fighter, MechAssault was Rogue Squadron.

If you want to hear Mitch talk about it a bit, check out this IGN interview with him. It's a cool interview (MechAssault is specifically at the 23 minute mark)...

 

[Timaeus]

well obviously Mitch had no say so about the lore.

can you honestly tell me that the lord high commander approved of all the mistakes?

Program Manager for MechAssault and Group Program Manager for MechAssault 2.

Look, It's okay to say you dislike the games, but it's not okay to crap on the devs of said games. So please drop this.

 

[unclecid]

and like the lord high commander says in the vid MA was NOT battletech nor was it steeped in the lore.

so my other statement holds true.

 

[Gauntlet]

The reason I am pondering this is because all the other iterations of the BattleTech franchise in the video/PC gaming space have adopted a reboot approach. HBS's BattleTech and then MechWarrior 5 have decided to go pre-clan, so it wouldn't be a stretch per se for MechAssault to do similar. After all It has been many years since MechAssault 2 was released, would it still be a good idea to go forward with that story line after all this time has passed? If so, then it would be something in the Dark Ages I think. I do believe that MechAssault 2 was at the tail end of the Jihad era if I recall right.

I could see it going Clan era I suppose, possibly Clan Invasion timeline. I suppose it is just one of those things we hopefully will find out during E3 if it is truly announced there.

I don't know if I would consider it a reboot approach but then again, it's been a loooooong time since I've played a MW FPS game so I'm thinking I may be misremembering.

Oh I wasn't thinking they'd continue the storyline, you are correct in too much time passing for that to make sense. I just assumed, with the 'uge fanbase that the Clans have, that it would just be set there.

I would be tickled if they set it in another era thought. Personally, I think the "Clan" era has been done to death.

 

[MeiSooHaityu]

Sadly, it looks like a MechAssault announcement at E3 was incorrect . Makes me sad.

I can't be too bummed though. With HBS's BattleTech out, and MechWarrior 5 around the corner, it is a good time to be a BattleTech fan.