BattleTech

Some of my favorite and earliest gaming experiences came from a turn-based pencil and paper game called Battletech. The original tabletop game came out in 1981 and with it a whole universe based on what happens when we leave the solar system. In 1988...

It's like a Katy Perry song, this one. You think you're immune from its charms and then all of a sudden you're humming it in the shower and singing while you drive. Battletech is so unforgiving and challenging that it really tickles the part of my brain...

A SIMPLER TIME I still remember January 2003 like it was yesterday. Though I’d owned the original Xbox for a few months, my parents had just bought me and my brother a subscription to Xbox Live, and I couldn’t get enough. Playing on the 20-inch tube TV...

The tactical combat in BattleTech is excellent. Building a roster of gigantic killing machines and managing sundries offers a long-lasting gameplay loop. With a sharper narrative and more polish around the edges, the turn-based 'Mech-killing experience...

BattleTech is a game that requires patience: it takes time to get to grips with the mechanics, it takes time to complete battles, and it takes time to simply load a battle. The performance issues which afflict this game are fairly significant, but not...

For Battletech fans, or fans of turn-based strategy games, this game is top-notch and deserves the highest of...

Despite some gameplay quibbles, the core loop of BattleTech – mech acquisition, customization, and combat – does a great job of adhering to the source material and providing engaging ballistic battles. Crunching an enemy core under your metal boot or scoping out a target for an enormous missile barrage are satisfying as hell, even if the frame of the title could stand for a little extra armor.

Enjoying Battletech takes time and patience. Born from the decades-old tabletop game of the same name (which also gave birth to the Mechwarrior series of games), the Harebrained Schemes version of Battletech places the universe into the genre most...