[REVIEW] MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries

[Blackfire]

• THE INNER SPHERE

The year is 3015. The Great Houses of the Inner Sphere have been waging bitter war for over a century. While the battlefields burn with an array of devastating weaponry, none is more formidable than the BattleMech. Skilled Mercenaries have never been in greater demand, and you aim to make your mark.

 

If you, like us, have been waiting 17 years for a new singleplayer MechWarrior campaign, this will be a huge deal in 2019. MechWarrior 5 will let you explore and liberate apparently hundreds of planets from enemy strongholds, fully customising your mech along the way. 

YEAR 2439
The first BattleMech prototype is produced by the Terran Hegemony. Though merely a shadow of what's to come, it immediately outclasses all other forms of ground warfare.

YEAR 2570
The Star League is born. An interstellar council formed from constituent factions within the Inner Sphere; it thrives for 200 years before falling apart in Civil War.

YEAR 2786

The First Succession War begins in the wake of the Star League's collapse. Billions of lives are lost, and technological development begins to regress.