Take the game online and all of a sudden you'll be whiling away the hours, getting yourself into all sorts of real-world problems due to missed engagements. The singleplayer campaign is fun and the story will keep you entertained, especially if you are already a fan of the BattleTech universe, but the online components are the real draw here. Lets start with the story, which frankly. The mech-jacking and the variety of team-based modes available are cool, but the relatively slow pace makes the rest of the game feel like a plodding, fairly. As an elite member of the Wolf’s Dragoon you’ve been contracted to land on the planet Helios ahead of a Dragoon regimental strike force. Its certainly Xbox Lives shining star, yet it will likely be overlooked by the masses. Whether MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf is a 'Must Buy' depends on whether you have Xbox Live or not. MechAssault Review Welcome to MechAssault for Xbox, one of the most intense robot tank games on the planet.
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What potentially hurts MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf is that online play has changed considerably over the past couple years and with recent top-tier games like Halo 2 and Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow vying for attention, the series might not be able to garner the impressive statistics it did first time around. But, with some notable exceptions, this is still largely the same online experience that MechAssault gave us back in 2002 when it was one of the first games to start using Xbox Live's capabilities.