MechWarrior 2, 1995 See: www.mech2.org/f... I uploaded this for historical purposes and hope nobody has a problem with it. mlk from Aptiva bundled disc converted to avi via ffmpeg.
There is a good reason beyond nostalgia that this intro resonates with so many of us. It's a crucial element missing from conventional story telling, especially in gaming. A true sense of danger. No catering to the greater will of the player/hero. Just two soldiers slaughtered by an unknown opponent, and it's done cinematically af. I fucking love this game.
I was working in the gaming industry at the time and along with my colleagues, I attended the Activision Australia launch of MW2 at the Hordern Pavillion in Sydney. We were all awed by this intro. It was gobsmacking to see it in broadcast quality on a big screen in an auditorium full of people. It gave us all chills. It happened on a Friday night from memory and a group of us spent the next weekend solidly playing the BattleTech pods at Intencity Hurstville. I survived on hardly any sleep and rubbish food, but came away fantastic memories that have stayed with me for 25 years.
hey, atleast it was a friday, my current company does get-togethers and summer/winter-fests on thursdays becaus they're scrared of how much people would drink, and then stuff gets left over anyway
This cinematic along with the Clans Wolf and Jade Falcon intros still give me chills to this day. This game was THE game of my childhood, haha. Oh god the memories, I remember my dad and I taking turns playing it, that was before the days where him and all other parents decided that videogames were evil. I still own the original disk, and I usually sink 12 hours or so into it about once a year for nostalgia purposes. I have the original soundtrack on my ipod as well.
Here's the weird thing: I missed a lot of the "We are Clan Wolf, Children of Kerensky, we are wardens, keepers of the plot armor, favorites of the franchise's writers" cut scenes because for some reason the audio in those cut scenes skipped on my computer. The in-game audio, and the above intro sequence, ran fine.
I remember seeing this being played in full broadcast quality at E3 '95. A former colleague of mine was involved in the creation of this at CA based SFX house Digital Domain. The sequence was completed in early 1995 and was used extensively in promotion and advertising. FormZ and Alias were used for modelling all assets, animation and rendering was done in SoftImage|3D.
By today's standards that was all kind of horrible. But man...*man* if you had been there then...this stuff was gold back in the 90s. Pure, unadulterated gold
+Michel Javert The voice acting wasn't all that bad, actually good compared to MW3. The low res cg doesn't age well, but it's still a well directed scene.
why does everyone have to say this … “by todays standards” … everyone knows it was made in 1995, and you are still allowed to enjoy it regardless of “todays standards” ( which are also shyte)
The team who made this intro did a great job. I always loved how the timberwolf torso twisted and actually over ran the target slightly and swung back. That combined with the sounds made you really feel how heavy and massive these machines were.
The tone and atmosphere of Mechwarior 2 was so intense, dark and gripping. I've not seen a game replicate the feeling it gave me playing as a young kid. Whenever I booted up the game on my playstation I would never skip the intro scene, cause it got me hyped as fuck. I love the dark gregorian chanting, mixed with the thudding sound effects, the hopeless desperation in the other mech pilot as he begs for assistance only to be brutally incinerated,. The cold emotionless AI narrating the status of the mech and the grittyness of the visuals really makes this game stand out. I havent played the other mech games but I have a feeling even they don't quite capture the ambiance and gaming experience this variant of the game offers. And the best part? All of this actuallly translates to ingame play, and isn't just a trailer pulling its weight. It shows you what the game wants to offer and by god does it actually deliver.
I love how the Mad Cat's torso twists and locks onto the Thor. This was really great animation, SFX, and voice acting considering its time as well as comparing it to its sequels.
@@thisiswhatilike54 Timber Wolf is the clan designation. When the model was first encountered, the IS standard scanner was confused if it was a Marauder or a Catapult and alternated between callsigns: MAD///CAT
I played it on a similar system. got it with my graphics card, the Matrox Mystique. It was a special version specifically adapted for that card and would not work with others.
I as a 16 yea old kid my dad presented me as a gift for Christmas this game together with a nice joystick... What a great gift, I played this gamey and the add on for month....soany good remories... And a few month later he have me the add on (in the snow)... What fantastic times.. Wish I could play these games with current pc systems... Was so perfect!
music + voice acting. EG: HES GOT A LOCK ON ME HES GOT A LOCK ON .BOOM.....no longer existing...... /10 year old me receives goosebumps.......23 year old me also receives goosebumps.....
@@TheRumChum , this is HQ, what is your situation regarding goosebumps and this intro when you are thirty? ... @TheRumChum this is HQ, what is your goosebumps situation? Please, comply!
There's only one complaint is I wish the ground had actual texturing, even a minor amount of dirt/grass would make it *so much easier* to tell me that I'm moving.
This, along with Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, the Descent games, and Star Wars: TIE Fighter, was among the very first video games I've ever played. Unfortunately, it was the Titanium Edition; I still have the disc, for the record.
Man this brings back memories. What a great game this was. Totally awesome intro and totally awesome game. For a game released in 1995, the visuals were incredible. The 1990's was such a memorable decade in PC gaming.
Basically a PUG match d in a nutshell. Allied Timberwolf was dumb and charged into the fight too quickly and got teamed up on by two summoners and got heavily damaged. The Timberwolf in the intro soon reached the fight and one shotted the summoner that decided to be dumb and jumpjet straight into the air and get obliterated by the Timberwolf's 4 ER PPC alpha build before ghost heat patch. Of course the heat was still incredibly high and all he had left to fire with was the two paltry machine guns. Meanwhile the summoner had a arm mounter with actuators a CLAN AC 20 in its arm and at that super close range got lucky and scored a headshot. Trust me I know because I had this EXACT same situation happen in MWO on a map that looks very similar to this.
I think this is (eventhough dated graphics) still one of the most epic intro sequences to a game. I got the original CD somewhere still...all dusted and stuff.
I agree. I like this one and also the one with the surprise Kodiak encounter. I like the new MechWarrior Mercenaries but the intro is very subpar compared to the voice acting and intro scenes of the earlier series. Also... I think they need that chorus music in the new Mercenaries as well. The rock music is good but they need some variety.
This is one of the most awesome game intro's ever made. remember when i was like 10 y old when i played this game for countless hour's. You never get tired of hearing "Enemy mech destroyed" ;)
This game got really got me in to PC gaming as a 10/11 year old kid. I could not believe that I could embark on an out of this world war. It's amazing even at the time seeing the graphics it never ever phased me. IT PULLED ME IN! Thank you MECHWARRIOR!
Masaki Inoue I disagree....Titan Fall reminded me of this game and that's what made it much more enjoyable to play. It may not be better than the original, but we can all agree that Titanfall shits on MW: Online
This intro is above any other that I've ever seen in my entire life, far surpassing any of the current generation. I wish more kids would appreciate good games like this. I used to play this 1v1 with my dad, but now we can't play any more with our current OS :(
HQ: This is HQ to any available units: We have 'Mechs down at Nav Gamma. Bravo Cadet reports four Summoners on site. Bandits are hostile. Repeat: Bandits are hostile. Alpha Assault: HQ this is Alpha Assault. I'm on my way, bearing zero-two-five. Computer: ETA: Thirty-four seconds. Bravo Cadet: Alpha Assault this is Bravo Cadet, I've got bandits all over me! G-Get down here! Alpha Assault: Sit tight Bravo Three, I've got visual. Bravo Cadet: I've got hip actuators out! I've-targeting system's damaged! I'm in bad shape! Computer: Enemy Detected. Bravo Cadet: Behind me, two of 'em, beyond the rise! Alpha Assault: Roger, I've got 'em. Computer: Targeting. [Alpha Assault fires a volley of four PPC energy blasts at a Summoner emerging from behind the right side of a rocky spire, destroying it in mid-air, just after it activates its jump jets] Bravo Cadet: It's got a lock on me! it's got a lock on... [Emerging from beyond a rise, another Summoner destroys Bravo Cadet with a missile] Computer: Targeting. [Alpha Assault opens fire on the second Summoner with dual machine guns while the Summoner retreats behind the left side of the rocky spire] Computer: Warning: Ammunition levels critical. Computer: Weapon depleted. [A Summoner emerges from the right side of the nearby rise and destroys Alpha Assault with a missile at point blank range] HQ: Alpha Assault this is HQ, what is your situation? Alpha Assault this is HQ, what is your situation?! Please comply!
I cannot believe the memories this brought back. I must have watched this intro a 100 times with my pc hooked up to my stereo system cracked up to 11! I have read through a lot of the comments and someone else commented on the pilot not firing his PPC's again. The first time I saw this intro I was thinking enough of the machine guns already they wont do much to a Summoner! I use to play the Fasa board game of MechWarrior with the dice for hit probability and the marking off hits to the armor with pencil. The first MechWarrior PC game was fun enough with bidding for jobs (don't overbid with House Kurita) and the simple and fun graphics. Mechwarior 2 was a quantum leap forward and is still a solid game to this day!
I remember it was Christmas ‘97 and we got our first IBM PC with Windows 95 Installed. This game was included with the computer. I was in the first grade at the time. I remember playing this game with my older brother in the weekends. Brings back so many memories
Es hermoso, en mi examen final de 3D Studio del 98 hice un Timberwolf. Nos pidieron hacer un logo animado, de más está decir que impresioné no sólo al profesor. El fanatismo por el juego fue mi linterna ¡Qué tiempos!
Clanner: "I'm on my way" Clanner: "I've got bandits all over me" Clanner: "I've got visual" Clanner: "I'm in bad shape" Clanner: "two of 'em" Clanner: "I've got 'em" Clanner: "It's got a lock on me" As much as I love this old clip that dirty freebirth tongue makes me sick.
After rewatching this now, I feel like the Mech Warrior games would not nearly have had the same kind of impact on me and my friends' imaginations had they not included these cinematics--especially this one. You start the game in the afterglow of excitement from watching this opening fresh in your imagination, and it really does an amazing job at establishing the world and filling in all the blanks left by graphics/computing limitations in the mind of the player. And considering this was a time when games hardly had the kind of cinematic production value we expect these days, it's amazing how well made it is all around -- not just the visuals but the sound design, music, and voice acting.
@@jamesperkins191 I haven't played the game for 20 years, but the game was basically Clan Wolf and Clan Jade Falcon. Clan Wolf's signature mech was the "Timber Wolf" (Mad Cat), while Clan Jade Falcon's signature mech was the Summoner (Thor). In this clip, we see two Timber Wolves going up against two Summoners.
@@jamesperkins191 It might be a patch for a clan Trinary, I see a star and a skull on what looks to be a snake like body. So maybe one of the snake clans.
This was the first game cinematic that really like blew my mind when I was a kid. Thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I remember playing it on my dads Toshiba computer in like 1997 or something.
What I find amusing about this is that when this game first came out back in 1995, I said to myself, "If they could make the actual games look as good as this intro, now THAT would be amazing!" LOL. Here it is 2015 and games look WAY better than this.
By far my favorite intro of all the Mechwarrior games. This hit so different in the 90s when I was a kid, and looking back it's still so good. They really don't make games like they used to.
I remember being absolutely enamored with these old CGI cutscenes, saying one day we'll see games that actually play and look like that. I'd say we've just about all but surpassed it. The only remaining things left are animation and input. The future will be glorious.
+slugger1983 They haven't captured "atmosphere" as well as this intro. There are a lot of remakes of this exact scene made recently, but none of them have the same nice grim lighting and atmosphere.
THIS was the game of my childhood. I was a Jade Falcon while my dad was faithful to clan wolf. So as you could imagine, there was tension in our household.
I remember my brother and I playing this together, I would shoot the guns and he would do all the movements. That was a long ass time ago now haha probably 1999 or 2000.
i used to loveeeeeee this game when i was a kid... my father was a die hard fan of this game and made me play... and i used to loveeeeee this intro .. the audio on this game was epic...
Yeah ultracannons burn though ammo. 1 ton of ac2 ammo will gi ve about 45 shots - his mech has 2. We don’t know what ammo he expended before he fought the 4 Summoners either
-Alfasol! This is Rob-O Cadet! An abandonned solo army c-c-c'you get down here?! -Sit tight Rob-O 3 I've got visual. -I've hit the evacuators out. Our targeting system's damaged! I'm in bad shape. [ENEMY DETECTED] -Training, Jule, Pete on the line! -Roger, I've got it. [TARGETING]
Good effort, but a bit off. "Alpha Assault, this is Bravo Cadet. I got bandits all over me! You get down here!" "Sit tight Bravo 3, i've got visual" "Half the actuators are out, targeting system's damaged. I am in bad shape" [ENEMY DETECTED] "Behind me, 2 of them! {unintelligible}" "Roget, i've got it"
This game, Crusader: No Remorse, C&C1 and Warcraft 2 will always remind me of my childhood, when i first started playing computer games. This intro stuck with me the most, though. The music is awesome, graphics are still epic imo. Thanks for the upload!
the PPC cool-down is can be rather short OR long depending on how its set up to fire, but if Alpha Assaults was set for short, fast shots he would have 'cooked' his mech in 2-4 shots because each shot would have generated a lot of heat that the heat sinks couldn't bleed off in time and his reactor would have shut down to save itself from detonating.
Thank you for posting this. Still the best intro ever. My PC was too week to play the game so I would just watch the intro over and over. Eventually I played the entire game using only wire frame because that's all my PC could process. LOL
+Spectans1 Originally yes, LRM20 on the shoulders and the 2 arms have large lasers. But there are configurations with PPC, I used to run one myself back in the day.
And IIRC the PPC variant had huge heat issues, hence switching to the MG's while he waited for his sinks to cool. Foolish to just keep chasing the summoner though. Run, get outta range, cooldown!
Most haunting sentence of my childhood, "He's got a lock on me! HE'S GOT A LOCK ON-..."
Fuckin right man I was shook by that growing up
I think I was 4, and I was never the same.
Dude the whole cutscene was creepy for me as a kid but i loved it
I was 7 when I first saw this, and I had nightmares about Summoners afterwards.
I would think of that while sitting elementary school and would get really depressed :/
There is a good reason beyond nostalgia that this intro resonates with so many of us. It's a crucial element missing from conventional story telling, especially in gaming. A true sense of danger. No catering to the greater will of the player/hero. Just two soldiers slaughtered by an unknown opponent, and it's done cinematically af. I fucking love this game.
Agreed. A new enemy 30tons lighter could appear 1.2km away and we still jumped a little.
That barely heard click-click-click of empty ammo bins just adds to the chill :D
When I first saw this cinematic I shit myself back then--- looking back, to this day, it still holds up. That was ahead of its time!
totally agree. This blew me out of my chair when it released. I probably burned it parts of my CRT monitor watching this over and over again.
The only part that doesn't hold up is the digital blocking. I wish there were an HD or 4k Render of this.
@@tf2whackyengineer fucken oath
i remember feeling like a total bad ass because I was able to do the full install of the game at 150MB with my new computer
lmfao, No you fucking didn't ... wtf are megabytes?
Millennial spotted.
I was working in the gaming industry at the time and along with my colleagues, I attended the Activision Australia launch of MW2 at the Hordern Pavillion in Sydney. We were all awed by this intro. It was gobsmacking to see it in broadcast quality on a big screen in an auditorium full of people. It gave us all chills.
It happened on a Friday night from memory and a group of us spent the next weekend solidly playing the BattleTech pods at Intencity Hurstville. I survived on hardly any sleep and rubbish food, but came away fantastic memories that have stayed with me for 25 years.
hey, atleast it was a friday, my current company does get-togethers and summer/winter-fests on thursdays becaus they're scrared of how much people would drink, and then stuff gets left over anyway
Lol by the time I got to visit Intencity Hurstville the MechWarrior pods were permanently broken.
@@HellBrYnger yeah this was certainly a different time
This cinematic along with the Clans Wolf and Jade Falcon intros still give me chills to this day.
This game was THE game of my childhood, haha. Oh god the memories, I remember my dad and I taking turns playing it, that was before the days where him and all other parents decided that videogames were evil.
I still own the original disk, and I usually sink 12 hours or so into it about once a year for nostalgia purposes.
I have the original soundtrack on my ipod as well.
JSRSJ1 i still love the clan wolf one always made me feel like its do or die there is no half measures
I use to play the 2 songs of mw2 in my porsche
i hear you. my mother used to take power cable from my monitor. of course, i had second one stashed under the pillow
Here's the weird thing: I missed a lot of the "We are Clan Wolf, Children of Kerensky, we are wardens, keepers of the plot armor, favorites of the franchise's writers" cut scenes because for some reason the audio in those cut scenes skipped on my computer. The in-game audio, and the above intro sequence, ran fine.
I remember seeing this being played in full broadcast quality at E3 '95. A former colleague of mine was involved in the creation of this at CA based SFX house Digital Domain. The sequence was completed in early 1995 and was used extensively in promotion and advertising. FormZ and Alias were used for modelling all assets, animation and rendering was done in SoftImage|3D.
Your former colleague did good.
Ashley Pomeroy agree...it's exceptional!
Johnny Jacobs
I remember getting c-bills.
Beats the hell out of the CGI shit now used in the intro of many games.
I wish I could see that.
That's what you get when you put fucking machineguns on your madcat's arm mounts.
fuckin deserved it lol
Weedlord Bonerhitler I think forgot about is hellfire missile shoulder mounts too.
Timberwolf. Although you're right in a way. That idiotic loadout should only be called a Mad Cat.
Timber wolf.
Timber Wolf (Clans) = Madcat (Inner Sphere)
www.sarna.net/wiki/Timber_Wolf_(Mad_Cat)
One of the best game trailers ever....still holds up
Though the hero warrior could have just waited for his PPC to recharge and destroy the next Summoner lol.
By today's standards that was all kind of horrible. But man...*man* if you had been there then...this stuff was gold back in the 90s. Pure, unadulterated gold
+Michel Javert The voice acting wasn't all that bad, actually good compared to MW3. The low res cg doesn't age well, but it's still a well directed scene.
Gold, Jerry! Gold!
IMO it aged better than the effects in MW3. The explosions are much more plausible.
And directing is superior, if I do say so myself.
It still gets my heart pumping!
why does everyone have to say this … “by todays standards” … everyone knows it was made in 1995, and you are still allowed to enjoy it regardless of “todays standards” ( which are also shyte)
THIS is the REAL MW2
Ah, one of the very first "unskippable" intro cinematics I ever saw, and still one of the best, even after all these years.
Thanks for uploading.
"It's got a lock on me! IT'S GOT A LOCK O-" *BOOM*
first time watching sent shivers down my spine ... and it still does.
I like how the 2nd enemy mech twists and turn to spread damage, obviously a seasoned MWO player :D
Nostalgia level insanely high.
Nostalgia level CRITICAL!
The team who made this intro did a great job. I always loved how the timberwolf torso twisted and actually over ran the target slightly and swung back. That combined with the sounds made you really feel how heavy and massive these machines were.
The tone and atmosphere of Mechwarior 2 was so intense, dark and gripping. I've not seen a game replicate the feeling it gave me playing as a young kid. Whenever I booted up the game on my playstation I would never skip the intro scene, cause it got me hyped as fuck.
I love the dark gregorian chanting, mixed with the thudding sound effects, the hopeless desperation in the other mech pilot as he begs for assistance only to be brutally incinerated,. The cold emotionless AI narrating the status of the mech and the grittyness of the visuals really makes this game stand out. I havent played the other mech games but I have a feeling even they don't quite capture the ambiance and gaming experience this variant of the game offers.
And the best part? All of this actuallly translates to ingame play, and isn't just a trailer pulling its weight. It shows you what the game wants to offer and by god does it actually deliver.
Eloquently stated
25 years later it's still awesome.
You made feel so very old.
Still just amazes me that this holds up even today.
I love how the Mad Cat's torso twists and locks onto the Thor. This was really great animation, SFX, and voice acting considering its time as well as comparing it to its sequels.
It's Timberwolf you filthy freeborn
You are thinking of the mad dog. Firefly was so much fun to sprint in.
@@LoreMaster007 Nope, they're using the Inner Sphere designation for the mech.
Are you guys sure it was not a Timber Wolf?
@@thisiswhatilike54 Timber Wolf is the clan designation.
When the model was first encountered, the IS standard scanner was confused if it was a Marauder or a Catapult and alternated between callsigns:
MAD///CAT
In my opinion this is one of the best intro scenes in a video game. Few can match it and even fewer can beat it.
First game i got on my 266mhz Pentium 2 with mmx, 4mb rage 3d card. man those were the days. Loved the game and the soundtracks were amazing.
apme1234 If you still have the game CD, the soundtrack plays like a regular audio disc when inserted in iTunes, your home stereo system, etc.
+apme1234 yeah...a computer with those specs in 1995 cost like $7000+ in todays cash.
apme1234 ha ha yep I played it on a 200mhz Compaq Presario. Haha!
I played it on a similar system. got it with my graphics card, the Matrox Mystique. It was a special version specifically adapted for that card and would not work with others.
Heat level critical!
Shutdown system initiated...
Shutting down...
Shutdown sequence overridden...
.......*explodes*
Well, fancy running into you here, even if it is a year later!
"Critical meltdown imminent!"
Fuck hits esc, f1-f12
@@shoutykat Huh? :-) Just wanted to see this intro once more, was that reply two years ago for me? :-D
I as a 16 yea old kid my dad presented me as a gift for Christmas this game together with a nice joystick... What a great gift, I played this gamey and the add on for month....soany good remories... And a few month later he have me the add on (in the snow)... What fantastic times.. Wish I could play these games with current pc systems... Was so perfect!
Music is still epic.
music + voice acting. EG: HES GOT A LOCK ON ME HES GOT A LOCK ON .BOOM.....no longer existing...... /10 year old me receives goosebumps.......23 year old me also receives goosebumps.....
The WHOLE STUFF IS EPIC!
@@TheRumChum , this is HQ, what is your situation regarding goosebumps and this intro when you are thirty? ... @TheRumChum this is HQ, what is your goosebumps situation? Please, comply!
The voices, actions and music are so well paced.
This is when games were designed for maximum gameplay...... and not just shiney graphics
or when they just hadn't the means to do anything else graphic-ish... since it's from 1996, 1997 or so
There's only one complaint is I wish the ground had actual texturing, even a minor amount of dirt/grass would make it *so much easier* to tell me that I'm moving.
The "titanium" editions did eventually get that. They were buggy though :(
Anyone who uses "MW2" to refer to a game other than this one has failed as a gamer and a human being.
No, it just mean they never heard of this game.
Not everyone was born before 95 and had the chance to play this.
+SlowSlowSloth Hence the failure as a gamer and a human being.
This, along with Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, the Descent games, and Star Wars: TIE Fighter, was among the very first video games I've ever played. Unfortunately, it was the Titanium Edition; I still have the disc, for the record.
I've played this game as a kid. UGH this game was so hard to figure out when your little and I just never got it. I failed the training so many times.
Look my dude its not their fault they didnt pc game back in the day
I remember playing this game. Those were the days.
Man this brings back memories. What a great game this was. Totally awesome intro and totally awesome game. For a game released in 1995, the visuals were incredible. The 1990's was such a memorable decade in PC gaming.
One of the best games ever.... we need to go back in time and do this shit again!!!
when i had my first salary this is the first game that i bought, oh man brings back memories of no sleep :)
After all this years i still get goosebumps watching this...
I got to play this game every birthday for like 3 or 4 years. Yes I watched the intro everytime.
Basically a PUG match d in a nutshell. Allied Timberwolf was dumb and charged into the fight too quickly and got teamed up on by two summoners and got heavily damaged. The Timberwolf in the intro soon reached the fight and one shotted the summoner that decided to be dumb and jumpjet straight into the air and get obliterated by the Timberwolf's 4 ER PPC alpha build before ghost heat patch. Of course the heat was still incredibly high and all he had left to fire with was the two paltry machine guns. Meanwhile the summoner had a arm mounter with actuators a CLAN AC 20 in its arm and at that super close range got lucky and scored a headshot. Trust me I know because I had this EXACT same situation happen in MWO on a map that looks very similar to this.
+R Y O K E N Did you see the remake of this intro made in the MWO engine by MWO players? It's here on youtube.
Ryaken ha ha "he's got a lock on me! He's got a lock on me!!" Boom...done.
*****
That comment is hilarious coming from someone with a MLP avatar.
@@Mazryonh *TELL ME!*
@@Kuraimizu9152 Look here:
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One of the best video game intros ever. Still gives me chills.
I think this is (eventhough dated graphics) still one of the most epic intro sequences to a game. I got the original CD somewhere still...all dusted and stuff.
I agree. I like this one and also the one with the surprise Kodiak encounter. I like the new MechWarrior Mercenaries but the intro is very subpar compared to the voice acting and intro scenes of the earlier series. Also... I think they need that chorus music in the new Mercenaries as well. The rock music is good but they need some variety.
Best intro -- ever. Still gives me goosebumps. Awesome game.
Bandits are hostile , repeat bandits are hostile...
alpha assault, this is HQ, what IS YOUR SITUATION. PLEASE COMPLY.
@@shadowxneo "HQ, this is Alpha Assault. I am currently dead and a burning corpse. Tell my wife I love her. Over and out."
@@VidGamer123 Tell my... Bloodmate I love her
(Clans don't do marriage)
@@jamesperkins191 In my defense, I haven't read any of the Battletech literature. :V
@@VidGamer123 after playing MW i looking for mw books and find saga of grey death , superb reading :)
This is one of the most awesome game intro's ever made. remember when i was like 10 y old when i played this game for countless hour's. You never get tired of hearing "Enemy mech destroyed" ;)
Yeah, this was an absolute classic piece of FMV.
One of the BEST game intros!
This video gave me goose bumps when I saw it at best buy on a 486dx4 100mhz
This is my favorite MechWarrior intro..
This game got really got me in to PC gaming as a 10/11 year old kid. I could not believe that I could embark on an out of this world war. It's amazing even at the time seeing the graphics it never ever phased me. IT PULLED ME IN! Thank you MECHWARRIOR!
where the choir bit starts: 0.48 has always given me chills since i first saw this ._.
Back when I had my 166 Pentium.
Hoped you knew how to overclock back then.
my child hood right here lol
+Afro Mystikal I'm sorry to tell you this, but your real mother and father were mech warriors.
+chriscj they play team fortress 2 now
-chriscj
Tfw you realize you're a freebirth.
Classic mechs. Really fabulous music too.
Titan Fall has nothing on this .
no game will ever have shit on MechWarrior
***** you forgot mech commander gold!
Masaki Inoue I disagree....Titan Fall reminded me of this game and that's what made it much more enjoyable to play. It may not be better than the original, but we can all agree that Titanfall shits on MW: Online
Cody Miller call of duty with mechs < Battletech!
Nah it really doesn't. If I want a game like that I'd stick to Call of Duty with the rest of the 11 year old mouthpieces.
I went without sleep for 13 days and no water or food for 543hrs playing this. I injured my groin. Worth it
I remember that day when i installed it, that day, was a good day.
This intro is above any other that I've ever seen in my entire life, far surpassing any of the current generation. I wish more kids would appreciate good games like this.
I used to play this 1v1 with my dad, but now we can't play any more with our current OS :(
HQ: This is HQ to any available units: We have 'Mechs down at Nav Gamma. Bravo Cadet reports four Summoners on site. Bandits are hostile. Repeat: Bandits are hostile.
Alpha Assault: HQ this is Alpha Assault. I'm on my way, bearing zero-two-five.
Computer: ETA: Thirty-four seconds.
Bravo Cadet: Alpha Assault this is Bravo Cadet, I've got bandits all over me! G-Get down here!
Alpha Assault: Sit tight Bravo Three, I've got visual.
Bravo Cadet: I've got hip actuators out! I've-targeting system's damaged! I'm in bad shape!
Computer: Enemy Detected.
Bravo Cadet: Behind me, two of 'em, beyond the rise!
Alpha Assault: Roger, I've got 'em.
Computer: Targeting.
[Alpha Assault fires a volley of four PPC energy blasts at a Summoner emerging from behind the right side of a rocky spire, destroying it in mid-air, just after it activates its jump jets]
Bravo Cadet: It's got a lock on me! it's got a lock on...
[Emerging from beyond a rise, another Summoner destroys Bravo Cadet with a missile]
Computer: Targeting.
[Alpha Assault opens fire on the second Summoner with dual machine guns while the Summoner retreats behind the left side of the rocky spire]
Computer: Warning: Ammunition levels critical.
Computer: Weapon depleted.
[A Summoner emerges from the right side of the nearby rise and destroys Alpha Assault with a missile at point blank range]
HQ: Alpha Assault this is HQ, what is your situation? Alpha Assault this is HQ, what is your situation?! Please comply!
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I cannot believe the memories this brought back. I must have watched this intro a 100 times with my pc hooked up to my stereo system cracked up to 11! I have read through a lot of the comments and someone else commented on the pilot not firing his PPC's again. The first time I saw this intro I was thinking enough of the machine guns already they wont do much to a Summoner! I use to play the Fasa board game of MechWarrior with the dice for hit probability and the marking off hits to the armor with pencil. The first MechWarrior PC game was fun enough with bidding for jobs (don't overbid with House Kurita) and the simple and fun graphics. Mechwarior 2 was a quantum leap forward and is still a solid game to this day!
Peter Evans The board game is called Battletech.
One of the best games ever. And the soundtrack was absolutely epic.
This cutscene hyped me up so much for this game as a kid. So many great memories.
Thumbs up to whomever put the game CD into their CD player to listen to the games OST on repeat.
I remember it was Christmas ‘97 and we got our first IBM PC with Windows 95 Installed. This game was included with the computer. I was in the first grade at the time. I remember playing this game with my older brother in the weekends. Brings back so many memories
No me canso de recordar este juego....sigue siendo mi referencia del universo de Battletech..... y el final "please comply" XD
Es hermoso, en mi examen final de 3D Studio del 98 hice un Timberwolf.
Nos pidieron hacer un logo animado, de más está decir que impresioné no sólo al profesor.
El fanatismo por el juego fue mi linterna ¡Qué tiempos!
Clanner: "I'm on my way"
Clanner: "I've got bandits all over me"
Clanner: "I've got visual"
Clanner: "I'm in bad shape"
Clanner: "two of 'em"
Clanner: "I've got 'em"
Clanner: "It's got a lock on me"
As much as I love this old clip that dirty freebirth tongue makes me sick.
Over fifteen years and I still love the ending of this... "Weapons Depleted" "Alpha Assault, this is HQ, what is your situation?" KABOOM
Worf: Ramming Speed!
After rewatching this now, I feel like the Mech Warrior games would not nearly have had the same kind of impact on me and my friends' imaginations had they not included these cinematics--especially this one. You start the game in the afterglow of excitement from watching this opening fresh in your imagination, and it really does an amazing job at establishing the world and filling in all the blanks left by graphics/computing limitations in the mind of the player.
And considering this was a time when games hardly had the kind of cinematic production value we expect these days, it's amazing how well made it is all around -- not just the visuals but the sound design, music, and voice acting.
Still some of the best music of any game made IMO. MW2 was so good for a lot of reasons, think I still have my CD around here somewhere :)
I appreciate your pfp, btw!
I watched this intro for the first time in a shopping mall in 1995. It was one of the best games of the era.
Best. Intro. Ever.
WOW!!! Thanks for posting this!!
This took me back to the day!
if that was terra therma he would have overheated after turning on the mech lol.
one of the best intros ever
"My 'Mech, THE MACHINE GUNS DO NOTHING!"
this is still the coolest thing ive seen in a video game in my life
Hey... that clanner used a contraction.
Excuse the cadet, he may have been a bondsman.
What clan is it anyway? The patch on the Mech doesn't match any of them
@@jamesperkins191
I haven't played the game for 20 years, but the game was basically Clan Wolf and Clan Jade Falcon. Clan Wolf's signature mech was the "Timber Wolf" (Mad Cat), while Clan Jade Falcon's signature mech was the Summoner (Thor). In this clip, we see two Timber Wolves going up against two Summoners.
@@PlacidDragon in the start HQ declared 4 summoner's where on site making it well stacked against the both timber wolf's
@@jamesperkins191 It might be a patch for a clan Trinary, I see a star and a skull on what looks to be a snake like body. So maybe one of the snake clans.
This was the first game cinematic that really like blew my mind when I was a kid. Thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I remember playing it on my dads Toshiba computer in like 1997 or something.
What I find amusing about this is that when this game first came out back in 1995, I said to myself, "If they could make the actual games look as good as this intro, now THAT would be amazing!" LOL. Here it is 2015 and games look WAY better than this.
yet play like shit.
By far my favorite intro of all the Mechwarrior games. This hit so different in the 90s when I was a kid, and looking back it's still so good. They really don't make games like they used to.
I played the crap out of this game when I was a kid, I use to listen to this soundtrack on the bus going to school xD
“My hip actuator is out, my targeting system is damaged…ugh…I’m in bad shape!”
That intro gave me a "wet nose".
oh my goddddd I forgot they call you that
You think you can handle it, wet nose!?
When I was little I played this with dad and I bought it for PlayStation yesterday so now the old man wants to relearn it! So many good memories
fuck those were some kick ass nights I had as a 10 yr old.
I remember being absolutely enamored with these old CGI cutscenes, saying one day we'll see games that actually play and look like that. I'd say we've just about all but surpassed it. The only remaining things left are animation and input. The future will be glorious.
...if you don't think gaming graphics have surpassed this twice over then I don't even know what to say
+slugger1983 They haven't captured "atmosphere" as well as this intro. There are a lot of remakes of this exact scene made recently, but none of them have the same nice grim lighting and atmosphere.
+armoredp agreed thats whats missing in many of todays cut scenes, the moody lighting and atmosphere. rules of cinematography and all.
Long Since Dead Video Game that kicked all ass back in the day (1997 or so).it came out in 1995 actually and thats when i played it :)
THIS was the game of my childhood. I was a Jade Falcon while my dad was faithful to clan wolf. So as you could imagine, there was tension in our household.
Did you have Trials of Refusal whenever you were told to clean your room?
this game made me buy a Pentium 1 to play kickass game. I still have a P1 system now to play it along with countless other classic games
I remember always being scared of this intro as a kid.
Mech 2 remains the best game I ever wrote. : )
Probably the 1st game I felt I was in. Fully immersive realism . Mega game.
I remember my brother and I playing this together, I would shoot the guns and he would do all the movements. That was a long ass time ago now haha probably 1999 or 2000.
i used to loveeeeeee this game when i was a kid... my father was a die hard fan of this game and made me play... and i used to loveeeeee this intro .. the audio on this game was epic...
When you forget to put at least 3-4 tons of MG ammo.
When you forget to remove the MG entirely and replace it with weapons that don't suck in the mech editor.
EnigmaHood True. But some diehard Battletech Fans wouldn't considered mech editor.
I think they were AC2s
Really, did he need four PPCs to take out the first summoner?
James Perkins AC2s shoot that rapidly?
Yeah ultracannons burn though ammo. 1 ton of ac2 ammo will gi ve about 45 shots - his mech has 2.
We don’t know what ammo he expended before he fought the 4 Summoners either
I was 11 when this came out. Still one of the coolest dramatic openings of any Mechwarrior
0:48 when the Machine guns start spraying and the music ramps up... epic
-Alfasol! This is Rob-O Cadet! An abandonned solo army c-c-c'you get down here?!
-Sit tight Rob-O 3 I've got visual.
-I've hit the evacuators out. Our targeting system's damaged! I'm in bad shape.
[ENEMY DETECTED]
-Training, Jule, Pete on the line!
-Roger, I've got it.
[TARGETING]
Good effort, but a bit off.
"Alpha Assault, this is Bravo Cadet. I got bandits all over me! You get down here!"
"Sit tight Bravo 3, i've got visual"
"Half the actuators are out, targeting system's damaged. I am in bad shape"
[ENEMY DETECTED]
"Behind me, 2 of them! {unintelligible}"
"Roget, i've got it"
This game, Crusader: No Remorse, C&C1 and Warcraft 2 will always remind me of my childhood, when i first started playing computer games.
This intro stuck with me the most, though. The music is awesome, graphics are still epic imo.
Thanks for the upload!
Should have fired the PPCs again... NUB!!
the PPC cool-down is can be rather short OR long depending on how its set up to fire, but if Alpha Assaults was set for short, fast shots he would have 'cooked' his mech in 2-4 shots because each shot would have generated a lot of heat that the heat sinks couldn't bleed off in time and his reactor would have shut down to save itself from detonating.
@@MegaRazorback sounds like you overheated just writing that comment lol. Might wanna get your heatsinks checked out mate 😉
Aaaahh. This brings back some good memories. Mechwarrior and Descent were great. :)
i was 3 when i played this game and i love it is the first pc i played
I was also 3 played this game fell in love with Mech's and Giant robots ever since I bet I never beat the first level
I played this game when I was 4 & up on the play station 2. I'm 17 now, and I still play it once in a while.
dw1.1 I finished this game when I was 1. Memories...
Thank you for posting this. Still the best intro ever. My PC was too week to play the game so I would just watch the intro over and over. Eventually I played the entire game using only wire frame because that's all my PC could process. LOL
Bullshit, everyone knows that Madcats/Timber Wolves are all about rockets.
+Spectans1 Originally yes, LRM20 on the shoulders and the 2 arms have large lasers. But there are configurations with PPC, I used to run one myself back in the day.
And IIRC the PPC variant had huge heat issues, hence switching to the MG's while he waited for his sinks to cool. Foolish to just keep chasing the summoner though. Run, get outta range, cooldown!