Piranha Games MechWarrior Online announced. From the second half of next year, gamers can in teams of BattleMechs and with different weapons battles online fighting in free-to-play pc game.
Piranha Games MechWarrior Online announced, writes PC Gamer. The game is free-to-play, appears in the second half of 2012, and let gamers in teams of BattleMechs battles to fight. The story takes place in 3050, just before the invasion of the Clans, in which gamers daily battles enter in the name of one of the factions of the Battletech universe.
The game is being developed by Piranha Games and Smith & Tinker, the company of Jordan Weisman. Weisman was the co-founder of FASA Studios, the original developer of the MechWarrior games. According to creative director alexander Ekman will Mechwarrior Online be faithful to parts two, three and four, and the game is not the successor of the MechAssault games. Will MechWarrior Online be modernised, where Ekman explains that there is a strategy element is added to the game. Information about the battlefield will, according to him, play an important role.
Mechs can, like in the original MechWarrior games, be expanded with different weapons and modules. Although it will be possible to use money to buy items in free-to-play game, emphasizes Ekman things that gamers a tactical advantage, not to purchase.