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GAME ON | OPINION: Forty-foot-tall robots: What’s not to love? | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

1 hour, 41 minutes ago by JASON BENNETT SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

MechWarrior 5: Mercenies was released in December 2019. (Piranha Games)

MechWarrior 5: Mercenies was released in December 2019. (Piranha Games)

I recently dipped my toe into the ocean of content that is BattleTech, and I fear I may have been permanently sucked into a maelstrom of giant, 40-foot-tall robots. I’m not really sure how I managed to never interact with BattleTech, a wargaming and military science fiction franchise, at any point in the last 40 years or so, but it has clearly been my loss.

Several years ago, I was randomly given a copy of MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries by a friend on the Steam gaming platform, and there it sat unplayed in my library until just recently. And let me tell you, it has been hard putting it down.

There’s a long history to the franchise, which began in the early 1980s and spans not just video games, but multiple board games, role-playing games, collectible card games, an animated TV series and more than 100 novels, all set in a fictional history that diverges from actual history around 1984 (the writers failed to predict the fall of the Soviet Union) and continues until about the 32nd century.

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