I’ve never been a mech fanatic, so I had low expectations when I booted up MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries for the first time. Then again, I tend to take this approach when I review games. It almost always turns into a pleasant surprise. MechWarrior was no exception.
Rather than ease myself into the world of mechs, I decided to drop right into the heat of battle through a preset scenario in the Instant Action game mode. Armed to the teeth with the highest tonnage mech in the game which meant nothing to me at the time I quickly realized that speed is not an advantage of the Assault class. I trudged across the battlefield like honey dripping out of an overturned jar. I’m here to tell you that slow and steady does not win any races in MechWarrior 5. It’s a true test of one’s patience. But what I lacked in speed, I made up for in firepower.