MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries

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Description

The stand-alone follow-up to Mechwarrior 2, Mercenaries puts you in command of a small company of 'mechs whose only loyalty is to money. As there is a brutal war between 2 tribes underway, your goal is to cash in by doing tough jobs for both sides.

Buy and equip your mechs, hire pilots, and fight in a wide array of campaigns against rebels, pirates, the Clans, and even other houses of the Inner Sphere. In the Merc mode you will have to keep an eye on stocks of salvageable material, and use this to designate which Mercs are built next, while Story Mode plays like a straight-ahead action game. Internet options include play with up to 15 others around the world.

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Part of the Following Groups

• BattleTech universe
• MechWarrior series

User Reviews

Mechwarrior 2... only better.	Windows	Evan Kerr (10)
Giant robots have never been cooler.	Windows	Zovni (10646)
MW2 was a great game, Mercenaries just made it better	DOS	NotTwoQuick (22)

Critic Reviews

PC Multimedia & Entertainment	DOS	Oct 22, 1996	94 out of 100	94
PC Games	Windows	Dec, 1996	A-	91
Coming Soon Magazine	DOS	Oct, 1996	88 out of 100	88
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	Nov, 1996	85 out of 100	85
GameSpot	Windows	Oct 10, 1996	8.5 out of 10	85
GameSpot	DOS	Oct 10, 1996	8.5 out of 10	85
Gameplay (Benelux)	DOS	Dec 02, 1996	84 out of 100	84
Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	Dec 02, 1996	84 out of 100	84
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	DOS	May 02, 1997		80
PC Joker	DOS	Oct, 1996	77 out of 100	77

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Trivia

Readme

In the readme, the recommended detail settings for each class of processors (P1, PII, ...) are listed. At the end of the list, there are the specs for a Cray supercomputer. The recommended settings for it are high detail on everything and a 1024x768 resolution (which the game does not support).

Awards

• Computer Gaming World
  • May 1997 (Issue #154) – Space Simulation Game of the Year
  • May 1997 (Issue #154) – Space Simulation Game of the Year (Readers' Choice)

3D OEM versions

"Mercenaries" was one of the games that used to be shipped with early 3D accelerator cards. That's probably because with its open 3D environments and detailed mech designs it was a great title to showcase the cards' capabilities. At least these specific versions are known to exist:

- 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics Edition

- ATI 3D Rage Edition

- PowerVR PCX2 Edition

- S3 Virge Edition

- Matrox Mystique Edition

Related Web Sites

• MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries (official website)
• MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries (Official Site - Activision)