Review Submitted By: Takashi Fuchida
Author Status: Player
Started on Battletech: The Frontier Lands: few years ago.
Submission Date: Nov 17, 2005
TMC Listing: Battletech: The Frontier Lands
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Takashi Fuchida]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Battletech: The Frontier Lands, underwent some code changes with
another Battletech codebase recently. They are currently intergrating
some great aspects of both games into one. I am an old time battletech
player from a long time ago. I just recently came back and i find it
to be more addictive then the first time i started. I don't find it
uncommon to spend more than 8 hours a day connected to Frontier Lands.
There is just something about the battletech universe, that makes it
one of, if not the best, science fiction storyline out there.
Give it the chance and i know you will agree.
In Battletech: The Frontier Lands, the object of the game is to pilot
your preferred choice of war machine for your faction.(These could be
anything from a Vertical Take-off and langing vehicle, VTOL, or a
massive bipedal war machine.) Starting your character is easy, you
don't even need to go into any timeconsuming rolling or tweaking of
stats. You start with set skills, which lends to a more balanced
atmosphere. (Don't worry, for the fans that want to be unique, later
on you are able to augment your skills and advantages with experience
that you earn while completing missions and destroying enemy
contacts.) You begin with a few battlemechs to use and are able to
purchase more later with experience.
There are currently three factions that you can be assigned to:
Capellan Confederation, Draconus Combine and the Lyran Commonwealth.
The overall objective is to take as many bases from your factions'
enemies as possible. That's not all however, In Frontier Lands, there
is a intuitive AI in place that commands generator and relay tower
defenses. And taking the enemies generators is a means of starving
their bases of resources.
Between the fun filled battles across the ever changing maps and the
helpful staff, Battletech: Frontier Lands is an evergrowing and fun
mud. Anything could happen at any moment, you could be facing down a
massive 100 ton Atlas one moment, then crushing a hovercraft beneath
your foot the next.
If you are a Mechwarrior/Battletech fan and you like having fun and
battling in some of your favorite mech variants,
then the Frontier Lands is the place to be.
~Takashi Fuchida
