One of the PC's staple game series back in the 90's was Mechwarrior, deemed as one of the best franchises about giant heavily-armed robots destroying each other to smithereens. With a reboot of series in development, fans of Mechwarrior will want to brush the dust off their old discs in anticipation but eventually realize they won't have anybody else to frag.
Worse yet is the fact that it's been nearly a decade since the last game was released and everyone may have forgotten about it or just plain don't know what Mechwarrior is. What's a giant battle mech to do? Enter MekTek, who has just earned the rights to reintroduce Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance to the world as a free download.
The initial announcement for re-release was made back in early July 2009, but MekTek recently noted they will be meeting with the current owners of the Mechwarrior property sometime around Thanksgiving to finalize a release period. In the meantime, we think it's in everyone's best interest to know that MekTek will also be including every single Mechwarrior 4 expansion alongside the main game. This includes Black Knight, Mercenaries, and theInner Sphere 'Mech Pak, all of which are set to outfit you with every single mech, campaign, map, and weapon right from the start.
If you think you're going to need a beefy rig to run this amount of content, you should refer to the following specs for the game back when it was released in 2000:
300 Mhz CPU64MB RAM16MB Video Card650MB Hard Drive space available56.6kbps modem
In other words, everybody is going to be able to run this. Except for the modem requirement, though. We hear there's this thing called "broadband" you can use instead.
With such a highly-acclaimed game set to be delivered in its entirety once more for free, there's really no reason to miss out. And for those who are willing to go the extra mile, Mechwarrior 4also supports a peripheral you young whippersnappers take for granted nowadays: joysticks. Giant robots aren't controlled with keyboards and mice so go get yourself something to get the full Mechwarrior experience. Aside from that, the only things you'd be missing out on are DOS prompts and quad-speed CD-ROM drives.
Source:MekTek.net
Section:PC Games
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