:MechWarrior
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{{short description|Video game series}}
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{{Infobox VG series
| title = MechWarrior
| image = MechWarrior reboot.jpg
| caption = MechWarrior logo
| developer = Dynamix
Activision
Zipper Interactive
FASA Interactive
Tsunami Visual Technologies
Wandering Samurai Studios
Personae Studios
Piranha Games
| publisher = Activision
Hasbro Interactive
Microsoft
Personae Studios
Infinite Game Publishing
Piranha Games
| genre = Vehicle simulation
Vehicular combat
|platforms = MS-DOS, Sharp X68000, PC-98, Super NES, Sega Genesis, Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Arcade, iOS
| first release version = MechWarrior
| first release date = 1989
| latest release version = MechWarrior 5: Clans
| latest release date = October 16, 2024
}}
MechWarrior is a series of video games set in the fictional universe of BattleTech.
Games
{{Video game timeline
| subtitle = Main series in bold
| compressempty = yes
| 1989 = MechWarrior
| 1993 = MechWarrior
| 1994 = MechWarrior 3050
| 1995a = MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
| 1995b = MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy
| 1996 = MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries
| 1999 = MechWarrior 3
| 2000 = MechWarrior 4: Vengeance
| 2002 = MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries
| 2013a = MechWarrior Online
| 2013b = MechWarrior: Tactical Command
| 2019 = MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
| 2024 = MechWarrior 5: Clans
}}
{{see also|List of BattleTech games#Video games}}
Within the MechWarrior games, players take control of a single BattleMech and combat other BattleMechs, tanks, infantry, and more, from within the cockpit of their machine. A third-person alternate view is available in MechWarrior 2, 3, 4, Online, and 5. Both MechWarrior 2 and MechWarrior 3 were Origins Award winners, taking Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Computer Game 1995 and Best Action Computer Game 1999 respectively.
In-universe timeline
- MechWarrior takes place at the end of the Third Succession War.
- MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy, Mercenaries, and MechWarrior Online deal with the events soon before, during, and soon after the Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere.
- MechWarrior 3 and MechCommander are concerned with different parts of "Operation Serpent" and "Operation Bulldog", the combined Inner Sphere counterattack against the Clans, targeted at the Smoke Jaguars.
- MechWarrior 4: Vengeance, its expansions, and MechCommander 2 deal with the Federated Commonwealth Civil War.
- MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries takes place during the Third Succession War.[http://www.mw5mercs.com/ MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries]
- MechWarrior 5: Clans takes place during the Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere.https://mw5clans.com/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
Live-action film
Electric Entertainment, a Hollywood production company founded by Dean Devlin, currently holds the option to produce a feature film based on the MechWarrior universe.{{cite web|url=http://xbox.ign.com/articles/387/387517p1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030625104126/http://xbox.ign.com/articles/387/387517p1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 25, 2003|title=Coming Soon: MechWarrior Movie|last=Linder|first=Brian|date=2003-02-27|publisher=IGN|access-date=2009-07-11}} In 2003, Devlin approached Paramount to pitch the project but failed to receive funding. The project is in development limbo.
See also
- MechWarrior (role-playing game), a 1986 tabletop game