MechWarrior Online Preview

There's a brief hands-on preview of MechWarrior Online over at The Gamers Hub this evening, just in case you were still curious about how Piranha Games' action-heavy 'mech MMO is looking during its ongoing beta test. A taste:
If you stick with it, there's also an awful lot to get out of MechWarriror Online. For one, destroying another mech is at least 1,000 times more rewarding than a kill in any other game. This is because you can only succeed through clever teamwork, therefore when a foe falls you can't help but cheer. It's made all the better thanks to the lack of health packs, stim kits, and '˜super-perks' to make things easier. It's just classic, unadulterated online experience of mech on mech action.

When you're not on the battlefield there's still an awful lot to do. You could customize your mech using in-game currency, spend hours tweaking your loadouts so they compliment your play style perfectly, or you could buy new mechs to use a feature that will come into its own outside of the beta. Currently there are only a few mechs available, but '˜Hero Mechs' are being released slowly. By using the in-game currency you've earned through fighting or snapping up with with own money you can mix and match weapon types, ammo types, defensive systems, armour and so much more.