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by Alice O'Connor, Aug 02, 2012 9:30am PDTBetween MechWarrior Online, Hawken, MechWarrior Tactics, and the Transformers games, it's a fine time for fans of big stompy robots. Tentatively add another to your list of anticipated robo 'em ups, as the appropriately-named Stompy Bot Productions yesterday announced that it's licensed the Heavy Gear franchise for a new video game.
Stompy Bot is eyeing up PC, consoles and mobile doodads for its new Heavy Gear.
The franchise began life as a tabletop wargame, like the MechWarrior-spawning BattleTech. This lead to an RPG, a collectible card game, an animated TV series, and two PC games from Activision in the Nineties. Activision put these out after it lost the MechWarrior license, to tick its robo-sim box, but they were a bit more conventionally FPS-y than MW.
"Dream Pod 9 looks forward to working closely with Stompy Bot Productions in developing the next incarnation of Heavy Gear's 3D video game," the Heavy Gear creator's president Robert Dubois said in yesterday's announcement. "Stompy Bot has the drive and talent to bring the world of Heavy Gear to life for all of our fans and a whole new generation of gamers."
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The stompy robot world of Heavy Gear is returning to PC, consoles and mobile doodads, as the appropriately-named Stompy Bot Productions has licensed the rights to the franchise.
The stompy robot world of Heavy Gear is returning to PC, consoles and mobile doodads, as the appropriately-named Stompy Bot Productions has licensed the rights to the franchise. : Shacknews
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HG2 might have been a better single player, but HG1 was a fantastic MP game. You had the ability to design your mechs, min/max them, and then test then against real people. It filled a niche that MW had left behind.
All that said, it would nice if they could incorporate the HG universe more into the game instead of making a straight up MW clone.
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