MechAssault hands-on impressions
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Microsoft made a strong showing of PC games at GenCon, but the company also had a separate Xbox kiosk with a running version of MechAssault, its upcoming Xbox mech combat game, on the other side of the hall. The version on display is newer than the one we saw at E3, and had several more levels implemented.
Mechs will have a variety of futuristic weapons, including laser and beam attacks, electric blasts, and homing missiles that can track enemies once you've successfully locked onto them by hovering your targeting reticle over them for a few moments. Mechs in MechAssault move much more quickly than they do in the classic PC MechWarrior series, and they have to, since they'll have to deal with smaller, faster enemy mechs, as well as smaller vehicles, like combat tanks, and scattered infantry units--the latter, as we saw, can be dispatched by firing on them or simply squashing them by running over them with your mech.