Free To Stomp: MechAssault Devs' Reign Of Thunder
2012: what a funny old year. It's one in which we get remakes of both X-COM and Jagged Alliance, and now it looks like there'll be multiple mech games too. First there was MechWarrior Online, then there was MechWarrior Tactics, and now there is Reign of Thunder. Coming from the steady but Xboxen hand of MechAssault pilots Day 1 Studios, RoT is a free-to-play affair due for launch later this year. No confirmed platforms, but 'free to play' and 'PC' seem to go together like dogs and lamp-posts (no, I don't know which one equals which) so I'd be very surprised if Reign of Thunder didn't walk this way. Our first glimpse of it marches through the storm below. Wow, that was a horrible, mixed metaphor-blighted sentence if ever there was one.
A quote!
"Mech fans have been asking us for years to return to the genre and we’ve been listening. Reign of Thunder is an all new Mech IP being developed by the people who brought you the award winning MechAssault series. We’ve been hard at work creating a hard hitting, fast paced, explosive action game with all the customization options you could ever want."
A trailer!
A website!
A speculation that being free to play will involve the purchase of new mechs, weapons, armour and appearances!