MechWarrior 4: Black Knight
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You are Eric McClair, dishonorably discharged from FedSun military when you went off to rescue a fallen comrade, thus disobeyed a direct order. The only place that will take you is the Black Knight Legion, a mercenary group headed by Colonel Lawhorn in his name sake mech, the Black Knight. You may have seen combat, but the Black Knight Legion is hardly a normal tour of duty...
Black Knight is an expansion disk for Mechwarrior 4, and requires the original to play. You play an all new single-player campaign where you will visit Kentares IV (the setting of the original Mechwarrior 4). You get to fight and pilot five new mechs (Black Knight, Sunder, Ryoken, Uller, and Wolfhound). You get some new weapons as well, like X-Pulse lasers, large autocannons, and more. There are also new multiplayer modes. The best feature, however, is "black market" in the single-player campaign. You can use the black market to trade in mechs and weapons you don't want for other mechs and weapons that you do want.
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- 机甲战士4:黑骑士 - Simplified Chinese spelling
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Average score: 81% (based on 13 ratings)
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Average score: 4.1 out of 5 (based on 7 ratings with 1 reviews)
Not bad for an expansion pack, but not much new either
The Good
New mechs, new weapons, all the "bug fixes" and interface improvements, a decent new campaign with new maps and new game modes, black market mode
The Bad
Nothing really new, no cinematics this time around, still mainly "kill everything" missions and escort missions and not much else
The Bottom Line
Black Knight is about as expansion pack as you can get... Cyberlore is best known for expansion packs (for all sorts of games), and you can't really fault them for the new content. A new campaign, new mechs, new weapons, new game modes, new maps, new terrain... Even display "bug" that MW4 players have complained bitterly have been addressed. Everybody gets something.
On the other hand, the expansion pack doesn't add much new to the equation. The new weapons were more like missing weapons now found. New mechs are nice but not that special. The Black Market mode in fact makes the game easy even at tougher levels by making good mechs available earlier and better weapons available sooner. New game modes aren't that special... New terrain and new maps are just... interesting.
I am still waiting for someone to create a true server campaign-like environment for MW3 or MW4, but no one has done so yet.
All in all, Black Knight is a very average product. Most of the shortcomings in MW4 was fixed, and you get quite a bit of new things. On the other hand, it also adds nothing really new. If you own MW4, get Black Knight and have a better time. Those who don't like Mechs won't be swayed by this title.
Windows · by Kasey Chang (4598) · 2001
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- You get to kill "yourself" in this game... In MechWarrior 4: Vengeance, you were playing as Ian Dresari. In Black Knight, one of the missions was to kill Ian Dresari, while other missions deal with his lancemates.
- As in MW4, FASA Interactive made its way into this game as well. This time, the building is classified as a neutral.
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The game's online servers (which were hosted on MSN Gaming Zone) were shut down on 19 June 2006 in the wake of MSN Games' shift from "CD-ROM matchmaking service" to casual online games.
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Game added by Kasey Chang.
Additional contributors: Unicorn Lynx, phlux, Patrick Bregger, Plok.
Game added November 29, 2001. Last modified March 3, 2024.