If there are some things I truly dislike about Mech 4: Mercs, it's the voice acting of Spectre. The only time the player will be in trouble is when the enemy mechs gang up on you. Any long time fan can finish Mech 4: Mercs in two days on Veteran difficulty, due to the somewhat weak AI. The game is disappointingly short, with none of the depth or length or Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. After the first five missions, you'll be rolling in C-Bills.
This all results in much to simplistic game play. In Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, you had to spend money repairing salvaged mechs. Additionally, salvaged mechs in Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries seem to have some instant free-of-charge repair ability as they appear fully repaired in your bay once salvaged. If you blew the mech apart in normal fashion you were unlikely to get any salvage at all other than some remaining weapons. In Mech 2: Mercs, you had to score a head or cockpit kill to stand a sufficient chance of mech salvage. A low point here is the relative ease at which you can salvage mechs, which was incredibly hard in Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. As a merc commander, you earn C-Bills for successful missions, salvage mechs, buy, sell, and customize your mechs and their equipment to your liking and hire additional lance mates. The game play will be familiar to many fans of the series. Ultimately, how your reputation fares with both factions will lead the player down one of three alternate endings.
At first the player, who is given the callsign Spectre, can take missions from either faction but doing so earns you positive infamy points with that faction and negative infamy points against the other. The back drop of Mech 4: Mercs is the Federated Commonwealth civil war between Davion and Steiner. MechAssault and it's sequel don't count since they are arcade, action titles for the masses who are unlikely to get over the 1 hour learning curve of the Mechwarrior titles. The back story and soundtracks have suffered greatly over the course of what, three titles? Anyway, Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries, released in 2002, was the last installment in the series and as of 2007, there has been no word of future titles in the series. Ever since the Mechwarrior franchise was taken over by Micro$oft, various aspects of recent titles have been lacking.
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