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A year ago, the name Heavy Gear would have been enkindled little more than a glimmer of recognition or interest among gamers. While rising in popularity among pen-n-paper role playing fans, it was a no-name and a non-factor in the world of computer gaming. Mechwarrior 2 was king, and that was that. Much has changed in the past year. FASA Interactive has since relinquished Activisionof its development rights under the Mechwarriorlicense, presumably in search of a bigger piece of the profit pie. However, for Activision, the unceremonious severance of one of its most successful series has not left it high and dry. Instead, the company has answered the challenge in respectable fashion, promoting a whole new identity and bringing it under the spotlight. But now that the trumpeting of fanfare has subsided, and Heavy Gear is among us, are we due for a coronation or a funeral?
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Heavy Gear is based on the RPG-system created by *Dream Pod 9 *, an independent pen-n-paper developer out of Montreal, Canada. With a heavy anime flavour and a focus on mechanised battle suits called gears, the Heavy Gear universe had long been fleshed out with character and richness when Activision took interest. The translation of this universe to the computer game has been well done, and the manual does a good job of detailing some relevant background information concerning the game world, its perks, and its people. However, as will happen with any world with such distinctiveness, there are poor representation at times. Imagine yourself being introduced to Star Wars for the first time and only allowed to watch The Empire Strikes Back, the second movie of the trilogy. There will be plenty of questions left in your mind--loose ends left dangling, obscure references left unexplained. One thing that Activision assures itself, though, is plenty of breathing room and creative freedom for sequels set in this new sandbox.
The game itself is set a gazillion years from now on the planet Terra Nova, a human colony tucked away deep in the nether regions of the galaxy. Independent of Earth's influence, the colony has thrived and now hosts two distinct and powerful civilisations. Geographically separated into the Northern and Southern hemispheres of the planet by an equatorial band of desolation known as the Badlands, and culturally distanced by varying ideals and theistic beliefs, an Interpolar War between the two factions has broken out. You take the role of Senior Ranger Edward Scott, the ace of the Northern landship (think 50,000 tons of hovering metal), Vigilance. As you proceed down the game's Wing Commander style story mode, an interesting plot unfolds via a string of movie scenes. While it's everyone's favourite hobby to poke fun at the acting in video games, I quite enjoyed the storytelling effect of the FMV clips and found the acting to be decent. Without trying to spoil any of it for you, there's a good mix of romance and conflict, centered around a quest for personal redemption. Given a longer, dynamic plot with a branching mission tree, and less one-sided characters, Heavy Gear's story-driven missions could have really shined.
The missions themselves are a well assorted lot, and jive well with the story. They are integrated into the plot and are connected linearly to one another. You must successfully complete each mission before proceeding to the next, and thus advancing the game. The variety in mission types is good, and each has a series of objectives to complete. They range from standard reconnaissance in which all you need to do is patrol a series of waypoints, to surgical operations with step-by-step procedures to follow. The objectives are usually fairly obvious, and often fall along the lines of destroying all hostiles in a target area, moving onto the next area and repeating your performance. The game does however offer a handful of thinking missions to relieve you from the monotony of consecutive blast-fests. For example, in one mission I had to infiltrate and disable a Southern landship while disguised in an enemy gear. It took several restarts before I finally realised what the mission was all about, and then a couple more tries before I successfully completed the assigned objective. In another mission I had to escort a friendly corvette through a web of enemy patrols. The key here was to not to engage the enemy, while weaving a timely path through the holes in the enemy's lines. In general I found the game's scripted missions to be very enjoyable because they added some flavour and cohesion to the action. However, the thirty missions can be completed all too quickly.
The design of the gears is fairly interesting, although more so on paper than in practice. Both of the Southern and Northern forces have a full complement of gear types, ranging from lightly armed scouts to heavy striders. At the beginning of the game, as a Northern pilot, the only models available to you are the Cheetah, a scout gear, and the Hunter, an all-purpose workhorse. As the game progresses, more exotic gear types are made available such as the monstrous Kodiak and tank-like Mammoth. At the beginning of the mission, you must make a judgement call on which gear best fits the task at hand. This decision will greatly affect your performance in the field. You can also design your own gear from available parts via a simple-to-use editor that allows you to customise your gear's body parts, armour and weapons to add a personal touch. However, I found that predesigned gears covered most of the bases, and didn't spend too much time tinkering with my own designs.
The gameplay itself is quite familiar, which is not surprising since Heavy Gear uses the Mechwarrior 2 game engine. Mech veterans will find no problems strapping into a gear and begin playing right away, as the look and feel of the game has changed very little. For newcomers to the genre, or pilots who are simply rusty, the game provides several training missions to teach you the basics of gear combat. These short lessons are presented with some humour using a sassy lieutenant instructor and her toadying cadet, and will help to make you a competent pilot, if not a good one. The basics of the controls are quite intuitive, and I found the default control layout to be just fine. I used keyboard for controlling the movement of the gear, and the mouse for torso tilts. This manner of control is very similar to Quake with mouse-look turned on, and provides easy manoeuvring and aiming. The gears also have wheels that can be deployed to sacrifice some responsiveness for a lot of speed, and are great during combat for zipping in and out of fire, as well as for quickly covering large distances. Some gears also have jump jets that can be used to gain a little flight time, although I did not find myself using them a great deal.
The combat tactics that were popular in Mechwarrior 2 are still generally viable. Rushing down the barrel of an enemy's cannons is a sure way to fry your gear, so the key to surviving is to make yourself a moving target when out in the open. The classic circle strafe attacks work wonders, especially with wheels turned on. If you turn at the right rate with your torso titled to one side, you can pummel an enemy target, while literally driving circles around it. The weapon variety is standard fare with rifles, rockets, grenades, etc, although the game could have benefited a great deal from a little more creative effort in this department. I found grenades to be rather useless, as they are hard to aim, bounce around erratically, and don't do enough damage to warrant the trouble. The only time when they of any use to me was when I found an enemy gear camped behind a rock, and an indirect lob was the only safe form of approach. Also, I found bazookas, and other heat-seeking projectiles to be rather unbalancing to the gameplay. They are the easiest weapons to use with simple lock-and-fire aiming, have a huge range, and come in relatively large loads. Half-a-dozen hits can usually take out all but the heaviest gears, and they're devastating when employed from afar. I would like to see a patch to tone down the efficiency of heat-seeking missiles somehow, either by increasing their target-lock times or by providing the target with some sort of defence such as decoys. In multiplayer games, when one side is equipped with heat-seekers and another side is not, the results are usually pretty predictable. One feature that I was surprised to not find, was the implementation of hand-to-hand weapons. Use of hand-held swords and similar weapons in Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear universe is acceptable practice, and would have made an interesting addition to the computer game.Activision has also stressed the durability of the new gears and their ability to function even after loosing key body parts, and this is more or less true. During battles, it is not too rare to lose an arm and the weapons attached to that arm. However, losing an leg will send your gear sprawling without any hope of recovery. (Although in one game I was killed by a legless gear that I had left for dead.)
Heavy Gear's AI is a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde affair. There are times when it the computer gears seem to act brilliantly, and other times when it's just inexplicably stupid. There are obviously instructions programmed that allow the AI to take advantage shelter among the terrain, and it does this quite effectively. However, instead of lobbing grenades at you from behind cover, they often simple just stay there waiting for you to flush them out at your leisure. The computer also seems to be too conservative on ammunition--which is a nice way of saying that the AI is too passive. Nevertheless the missions are arranged such that they are fairly challenging, giving the AI the standard advantage in numbers. Then, of course, there's the other half of the time when the AI does behave sensibly, if not ingeniously. All in all, if you played Mechwarrior 2, you'll have a good idea of what the AI is all about. It's decent, it's even effective, but there will be times when it's laughable, easily exploitable. Don't expect any miracles or major advancements in Heavy Gear's AI and you won't be disappointed.
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