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Based on 686 ratings
8.5
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Score Breakdown Based on 686 ratings
  1. 10 (152)
  2. 9 (330)
  3. 8 (136)
  4. 7 (38)
  5. 6 (12)
  6. 5 (10)
  7. 4 (0)
  8. 3 (1)
  9. 2 (1)
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Most Helpful Positive Player Reviews

  • Rating:9.3

    Strap yourself in and hold on tight.

    Mechwarrior 2 is the very pinnacle of cool. While it's only a very small window into the Battletech universe and messes around with some of the names a bit, it still remains remarkably true to the popular gaming franchi... Read Full Review

    9 of 11 users found the following review helpful

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  • Rating:8

    MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat

    Mech Warrior 2: 31st Century Combat was released on PC by Activision way back in 1995 and became an instant classic among gamers who were blown away by its depth and playability.At its core Mech Warrior 2 is essentially ... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:10

    Godly.

    Good: -You are a mechwarrior. Recruit your team. Buy mechs. Customize and outfit them from the ground up with the credits you've earned. Use your skills as a trained pilot to unleash as much as 200 tons of pure firepowe... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:10

    The only "real" mech sim

    There are many reasons for this game for being the best of the Mechwarrior series. GS review and the other that of the other players are enough to highlight them all and i just want to tell you about the awesome physics.... Read Full Review

    2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:9

    Very high replay value, good graphics, challenging--but fun!--gameplay, and an excellent soundtrack.

    Mechwarrior 2 has all of the elements of a classic PC game: Good control layout, good graphics-functional with higher frame rates, well-designed missions and an excellent soundtrack. Mechwarrior 2 was the first simula... Read Full Review

    2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:9.1

    One of the greatest games of all time.

    MechWarrior 2 was the first video game I had ever played in my life., due to a fairly sheltered childhood, and it is still one of my favorite games of all time. The graphics were amazing for their time and the gameplay... Read Full Review

    2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.9

    Grand Daddy of all other Mech Games...

    Well of not ALL of them, but a lot of them really took a new direction after this game, if you would like to know some of the back story to were the other Mechwarrior games came from , or would like to see one of the mos... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:9.3

    An excellent game, with an excellent soundtrack

    One of the first games I bought for the PC, 31st Century Combat is THE game that sparked my love for anything Battletech related, and game soundtracks. Fighting as a Clan Mechwarrior, you battle a rival clan for the fate... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.9

    This is the PC title that hooked me into PC gaming forever.

    Young and impressionable minds agree : blowing up things = fun. When I got my first computer all I had to play on it was freeware until I went to egghead software and found this game and a brand spanking new joystick to ... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.8

    Blow 'em fun!!

    This was one of those games that was a steal, having gotten this with my new computer back in the 90s. The features of blowing stuff up and customizing my machines compelled me to play and get addicted for quite some ti... Read Full Review

    2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:6.5

    Eh? *shrug* I'm definitely not a sim/strategy guy.

    MechWarrior 2 ran in a DOS window. Oh yeah. It didn't support 3D acceleration but had vector drawn graphics with simple shaders. Even with primitive graphics, the game was intense. Strapping your character into a m... Read Full Review

    1 of 8 users found the following review helpful
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