MW3 was my introduction to the Battletech universe and I still have the CD-ROM in a jewel case on my shelf.

@vanguardiano7309

4 жыл бұрын

Same. My dad introduced it to me when I was 4.

@TheAnon03

Жыл бұрын

Almost the same, played the Demo for Mech Commander and I was lucky enough to find it along with Mechwarrior 3 and Pirates Moon in a local second hand games store a year or so later. Great games, still have them somewhere.

@pacman10182

8 ай бұрын

Never had the jewel case, but still have the disc

Modern Warfare 2? Modern Warfare 3? Modern warfare 37426? Bah. "MW" for me will always stand for Mech Warrior.

@ArvexYT

10 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Not only has Mechwarrior been around longer than the Modern Warfare series, but I'm pretty certain it predates the entire Call of Duty series.

@IAMELIPHAS

10 жыл бұрын

Arvex It does. Fuck, battletech (the futuristic war series that mechwarrior is a spinoff/small part of) predates PC GAMING ITSELF.

@varis2000

6 жыл бұрын

Technically incorrect - apparently Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 was released to PC in 1982 while Battletech started only in 1984. Close but no cigar sorry.

@lordvanazir1007

5 жыл бұрын

for years every time folks were goign on about MW2 or MW3 i thought they were all going on about Mech Warrior and i was disgusted to find out they were talking about modern warfare instead and had actually never heard of mech warrior or battletech

@JimBobJoeB0b

4 жыл бұрын

It also stands for MechAssault, something that gets me confused all the time.

This game introduced me to battletech/mechwarrior. I remember as a child when I played this (about the age of 4 years old) it always made me feel as though I was actually the pilot of a walking tank in the 31st century on some far off planet all alone with only my lance mates and field base as my only allies. This game had me so immersed all the time. It always game me a sense of loneliness. And dispare. Like you where fighting not only your enemy (mechwarriors of clan smoke jaguar) but also the environment. The environment can either help you or work against you. (Like standing in water to cool your mech down. Or it could be so hot you can't shoot back at your enemy) such an amazing game I really miss playing it...

@depth386

Жыл бұрын

Agree on most points, I just wish the heat and the multiplayer net-code was more like MW4 or Shooters meaning network/internet lag/latency did not give you an advantage. Edit: To clarify, i am not saying MW4 was better overall. The weapon balance was way off, the way MW4 did missiles super uninteresting, the autocannons were just animations but the game logic had a single projectile simulated unlike MW3… so many things wrong. All mech games have issues.

But back to the original subject, do you know how many people /still/ get chills up their spine when they watch the Summoner step on that soldier?

@Euphoria0011

6 жыл бұрын

The 3 large pulse lasers of doom to the face.

@theenginerd5967

4 жыл бұрын

The booming echo of a Timberwolf's reactor going supercritical...

@Freedom21stCenturi

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@loganireland3113

3 жыл бұрын

still do

@blitzking1980

2 жыл бұрын

5:18 through 5:56 is the best and most memorable sound to me of this game!

"All systems nominal."

@Euphoria0011

6 жыл бұрын

(take dual lrm 20s to the face and die)

@Greg92PL

5 жыл бұрын

"Low range missiles detected!"

Probably the best sim-quality of any game in the franchise. The behind enemy lines campaign finishing off the Jags was amazing. I like the years from the Clan Invasion to the Fed Comm civil war. A plethora of new and good mechs in the revival that followed in the wake of the Succession Wars, and new weapons. Owens, Strider, Avatar, Sunder. The Inner Sphere Omnimechs were some of the best in this game.

@ThisCanBePronounced

2 жыл бұрын

Behind enemy lines and everything going wrong since before you even got to play....things going wrong became almost a meme. "KEITH? KEITH ANDREWS!"

RIP to that Atlas pilot that totally got sacrificed to the MadCat going critical.

@TheGreenKnight500

2 жыл бұрын

He ejected, so there's a chance he survived.

@Areayea

2 жыл бұрын

He survived he was an ally… alan Matilla he said he was ejecting so prolly landed somewhere safe (in mw4 I believe your allies could die or eject and survive)

@TheKnightOfSmite

2 жыл бұрын

@@Areayea In MW4 they could also eject and then die later (you get a report saying they died from either pod malfunction or being captured by Steiner then executed)

@Areayea

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKnightOfSmite sigh I hated house Davion and house Steiner but ya I played mw4 over a decade ago and still preferred mw3 I do like 5 now tho

@Vdossed

6 ай бұрын

But there are 3 crosses in the city in the ending scene so maybe​@@Areayea

Alot of this music is just downright scary damn.

I named my dog Thor not after the God or the superhero. But after the clan mech with the inner sphere name.

@racer927

2 жыл бұрын

Missed opportunity to call him "Vulture".

@aking4915

3 ай бұрын

You gave him a freebirth name😂

in my humble opinion mechwarrior 3 has the most grittiest and gory description (to me) depicted in battletech Exploding bodies. Blood SKELETONS GRAVES

@solidus927

6 жыл бұрын

the stompy squish infantry parts are awesome!

@Euphoria0011

6 жыл бұрын

The effects on the PPCs! Seriously, the king of weapons in that game

@transcondriver

6 жыл бұрын

And the birds!

@jamesperkins191

4 жыл бұрын

But you could actually zap people like that in the game!

@awordabout...3061

4 жыл бұрын

I was just amazed the found any bones left, most weapons in Battletech wouldn't leave enough of a man left to fill a matchbox!

I still hear the lock-ons and laser fire

These theme songs used to scare me as a kid... well... I finished the game few years later

And who could forget: Mechwarrior 2: "Heat Exceeding 700 Kelvin. Emergency Shutdown Sequence Engaged. *button press* Shutdown Sequence Overridden" Mechwarrior 3: "Core Meltdown Immenent. *mech explodes*" Mechwarrior 4: "Heat Level Critical: Shutdown Immediately."

@JimBobJoeB0b

4 жыл бұрын

*imminent not immediately ;)

@racer927

2 жыл бұрын

MechWarrior 2: Heat level critical! MechWarrior 3: Core meltdown imminent! Shutting down. (or if you were midair and hit the limit "SHUTTINGDOWNSHUTTINGDOWNSHUTTINGDOWNSHUTTINGDOWN") MechWarrior 4: Warning, heat exceeding recommended level! Warning, approaching critical heat level! Heat level critical, shutdown imminent!

Pretty much still the only MechWarrior game that let you obliterate the terrain as well as vehicles, mechs, people, and buildings.

@mam162

3 жыл бұрын

Also the first one that let you travel in water. Previous games didn't have that because it was too complicated to program.

@oriffel

2 жыл бұрын

@@mam162 that's simply not true.

@nataliefaust7959

Жыл бұрын

@@mam162 There's an entire mission in MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy that takes place underwater.

@mam162

Жыл бұрын

@@nataliefaust7959 But that's just it--the entire mission was underwater. It didn't let you go from land to water and back. MW3 does have that feature, and it was a first.

This game has by far the best level of detail in it, especially when accounting for the technology difference between this and the disappointingly blah MW5. The simple fact you can blow a crater into the ground and then hide in it is amazing. Add to that the adorable destruction physics of unique and interesting architecture as well as vast terrain. MW3 really is a gem. If I had to pick a complaint or two it would be that the soundtrack is too short and the game is very finicky to run.

@johnathanera5863

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not even sure the second one counts as a complaint. That's just a fact of tech advancement. It's impossible to completely future proof your games.

@jubjub15

3 жыл бұрын

Add onto that you could command your repair vehicles and strategize on their use

@depth386

2 жыл бұрын

I would add the netcode in MW3 was trash for multiplayer. MW4 fixed this adopting the typical first person shooter standard where your latency was your problem. Unfortunately MW4 inexplicably fucked up the weapon balance making small and medium lasers useless.

@depth386

2 жыл бұрын

@@jubjub15 I found this part of the game very meh, I usually just ran back all the way for the sake of keeping the repair vehicles as safe as possible. Also if anything blocked their path, even your lancemate, they would get terribly confused.

@depth386

2 жыл бұрын

I find myself coming back to this comment months later. When I think about Autocannons in MW3 vs MW4 I’m angry that they were so lazy in MW4 where the animation shows a bunch of rapid shots but the game logic is one projectile at the start of the animation. In MW3 it simulated every projectile you saw on the screen and you could spray it as necessary. If MW3 could also have MWO’s torso twist pitch/yaw and arm pitch/yaw speeds it would be perfection in that context. It’s just a shame the netcode wasn’t right until MW4.

Mad Cat FTW!!!! Man, I've spent so many hours on this game! Jeez, I wish people would still playing this online! Good ol'days, good ol'game!!!!

I get chills when it hits a soldier with an ERPPC, there was barely a char mark left over

One of those cases where ya feel bittersweet over how its not about what's in but how little of it is around.

Quality over quantity.

@TheGreenTaco999

7 жыл бұрын

Birdie McChicken 6min of music total...

@solomonstello

Жыл бұрын

Always.

Takes me back... Also probably the first game I actually played online. lol, MSN Gaming Zone...

3:11 is where the actual mission music starts... lol

@jnb894

6 жыл бұрын

Isn't that the main menu track in fact and the beginning of the video here is the track of the first mission?

my favorite song starts at 3:12

It sounds like this soundtrack was the transition from MW2's soundtrack to MW4:V's. I honestly think that MW4V's soundtrack is criminally underrated. Not that MW2's and MW3's aren't awesome, they just hog all the attention is all.

lol i felt that way when i was around 5 or so years old, now, it doesnt bother me much. (and yes i could play mechwarrior 3 like a boss at my age of 5)

Sounds like a movie coming on.

Most definetly, this one beats the dust.

how nostagic.. this was one of my favorite until I got my hands on Windows 10... Can no longer play it..

The skeleton of the dead mechwarrior in the final video.

F5/UA/ICEPORT anyone remember these rooms?

@grindkerensky

4 жыл бұрын

No Legging! Hailz. Childhood memories.

3:24 4:12 4:59 5:16

so what, its better then all the other mechwarrior games

Dito, my friend. That's great stuff.

@Hask79 you got that right

@4:46

You mean the Thor? ;)

I agree highly, that was the worst part. I would close my eyes and wait for it to pass everytime i watched it >.

who soundtrack less than 7 minutes.

Wait, how the hell did you get music in MW3???

baba

He better not!

The game is outdated... they wouldn't care.

Man, MechWarrior 3 had a garbage soundtrack. Like how lazy can you get? Just have a single sub-par ambient track throughout the entire game and call it a day. Game wasn't all that great to begin with, but still.

@Kuraimizu9152

5 жыл бұрын

Still good for a company that developed a whole new game while it was dealing with bankruptcy

@Apache1990

5 жыл бұрын

Plus, these were the last games with the music playing directly off the CD. They were running out of space to put more than a few tracks on it.

@heckingaxle6618

3 жыл бұрын

Homestly if you wanted to help in the reboot you can make new sound tracks for the game in each operation or sub ops mission areas including the existing music in the sound track play list of the game. Yes there is a reboot of the game but it's under private development and the rights to the game is being or has been bought to do a reboot.

@CrimsonSnoipah

5 ай бұрын

I know this is like six years ago, but this shit is nostalgic to me. I don’t think it’s bad at all.