Remember MechCommander? Now it’s free!
MechCommander was at the cutting edge of gaming technology when it was first introduced in the late 90′s and I’ll bet I spent more hours playing the game than I care to admit. It quickly became a benchmark for games at that time it was so good. So what am I doing mentioning it now? Well, you can download both the original MechCommander and MechCommander 2 for free and play to your heart’s content. They even have the manuals available so what are you waiting for? Go get it!
(via TRFJ)
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Slooow server.
Downloading 500+MB images?
With no torrents of the downloads?
..seriously?
-arebelspy
And, if you’re interested in becoming a programmer or are looking for an ambitious project for your XNA Game Studio Express, you can download the source code to MechCommander 2 as well!
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6D790CDE-C3E5-46BE-B3A5-729581269A9C&displaylang=en