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Battletech
PC Gamer
|August 2017
Punching Mechs With Other Mechs For Money
In BattleTech, a band of mercenaries travel the galaxy, fighting for the highest-bidding noble house. More importantly, these fights are full of mechs battering one another with oversized fists and missile barrages. Watching mechs brawl is, as we know from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, fundamental to human existence.
This story is from the August 2017 edition of PC Gamer.
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