BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception

Genre:

RPG

Year:

1991

Developer:

Westwood Associates

Publisher:

Infocom

Perspective:

Isometric, Top-down

Theme:

Robot, Sci-Fi / Futuristic, Turn-based

In the 31st century, brutal wars are waged by huge machines and human lives are cheaper than water. In this action RPG, you are Jason Youngblood, a war cadet who must fight to preserve his planet, his honor and his life. The first game from a large but incoherent series, set in the same universe, is based on the rules of the BattleTech desktop strategy, from which the authors derive everything from the name itself to the realities of the game. In this game, you take on the role of commander of BattleTech units, which are giant, human-controlled robots. You play here as Jason Youngblood, a budding BattleTech pilot. Despite the fact that it is an adaptation of the table strategy and their rules, the game is accompanied by the main plot line and combines both turn-based and real-time elements. You move around the world map in real time, while the fights take place in a turn-based system. During the game, a number of improvements await your units, which is conditional on your success in increasingly challenging battles.