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Sir Wulfrick, on 16 December 2019 - 06:00 AM, said:

I could never get on with HG2. I loved the mission design but there was just something wrong with the feel of how the Gears handled. Too fast & nimble to be have that mech-type 'stompy robot' feel and too slow and ponderous to have an FPS feel.

It felt right inbetween the two. Those Gears aren't mechs, just like in the game's description. They're a few meters tall, not like the Battlemechs. As far as the controls went, the torso speed felt like a FPS but the movement felt slower, more along the lines of a mech, so I can see where you're coming from.

I just loved everything about the game though. The main campaign, the missions, the loadout, the teammates, the dialogue and more importantly, the shooty bits. Rapid-fire Bazooka and Gatling Lasers ftw. Even the Instant Action missions were great (granted they were copies from HG1's campaign or something).

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Anjian, on 16 December 2019 - 07:01 PM, said:

This was another old game that I truly enjoyed. None of that someone in an evil red mech skin with a villain voice killed my father and I need to do an Inigo Montoya on him

Here the story is simple and your motivations are clear and obvious. You are fighting for the survival of the Species. Your Species.

Now that was much more like it for me. I also loved Starsiege that followed on from it. I wonder how many people these days realise that the Tribes games came from this universe? Those were great days for PvE & PvP stompy robot games. And competitive FPS games.

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Tribes was such a great game.