MEAT VS METAL

This throwback mech sim honours the 30-year MechWarrior legacy very closely: in mechanics, in controls, and even in soundtrack. Bombastic guitar riffs thunder over every combat, lasers sizzle, PPCs crackle, and gauss rifles make that weird ‘pew’ noise, you know the one. Mechs stomp and break and explode spectacularly, levelling buildings around them. In short: MechWarrioris extremely back.

The feeling of dropping into those missions is superb

Not everything about is rooted in the past. The overall aesthetic fits into the contemporary look of the universe. The UI is clean, inspired by the work that went into Harebrained Schemes’ interface for 2018’s . Piranha’s modern mech designs are memorable updates to the dated ’80s designs. They stomp menacingly at each other across a pretty diverse set of battlefields that sit starkly opposed to the near-featureless plains of the past. It also brings in your friends in a co-op mode, both for campaign and one-off skirmishes, that