MechAssault: Phantom War
MechAssault: Phantom War is one of the games in the popular MechWarrior series and is part of the BattleTech universe created by FASA. Players assume the role of a BattleMech pilot in a 3D environment with a…
MechAssault: Phantom War is a shooter developed by Backbone Entertainment, released 12 September 2006 on Nintendo DS.
What MechAssault: Phantom War is
MechAssault: Phantom War is a shooter game developed by Backbone Entertainment and released in 2006. It was published by Majesco. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
MechAssault: Phantom War is one of the games in the popular MechWarrior series and is part of the BattleTech universe created by FASA. Players assume the role of a BattleMech pilot in a 3D environment with a third person view of the combat via the top screen of the DS, while the touch screen displays the inside of the cockpit and acts as the game's controls.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the BattleTech series
MechAssault: Phantom War is the 23rd of 29 entries we hold in the BattleTech series. It arrived 2 years after MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf Limited Edition. The next entry was MechWarrior: Living Legends in 2010. Its critic score of 65 is 10 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is MechAssault at 90.
How it was received
MechAssault: Phantom War holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 28% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
MechAssault: Phantom War launched on 12 September 2006, within three weeks of Company of Heroes, Pokémon Diamond Version, Test Drive Unlimited and Call of Juarez. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Company of Heroes, Pokémon Diamond Version, Test Drive Unlimited, Call of Juarez.
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