I would recommend getting MW4: Mercenaries if you can find it. Started, but never finished as i got a new job, and whoopsie, there went all my spare time to hell. I actually got MW4, but never really got to play it properly. The thing I liked about it the best though was that you could choose what mission you wanted to go on (not a linear storyline, or any storyline, you just picked a mission and went off and did it for some cash). Your energy lasers were just a trapezoidal shape shooting out. I also remember the actual combat sequences were very jagged graphically. I almost want to think that this image was from a newer Mechwarrior game, so I can't be sure, but I remember that. The screen I remember the best was when you were outfitting/buying your mech (I certainly hope this screenshot is from this game and not another), and you would see this giant hangar, and your mech was sitting in a big construction thingy, kinda like what was around Megatron in Transofrmers, and there'd be a few little guys on the catwalks, with sparks coming down off the machine. I'd still play it today!Was that Shattered Steel?Дon't think it was, the screenshots don't look like it, and there was no multiplayer that I know of.

I really wish I remember the name of it, but alas, I do not. Matter of fact, I really loved, WAY back in the day, a Mechwarrior type game where you could take on various missions, earn credits, buy mechs and parts, and got salvage after a mission as you travelled across space.

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