Piranha Games and Sold Out have announced that they are bringing MechWarrior back to PlayStation after more than 20 years. Set in the fictional universe of BattleTech, the series hasn’t seen a full-fledged release on a Sony platform since 1995’s MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat on the original PlayStation.MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries will release on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on September 23rd along with the Heroes of the Inner Sphere downloadable content. The PS5 version will support adaptive triggers and haptics.An overview of the plot is as follows:Welcome to the year 3015! It’s a hell of a time to be alive.Humanity has colonized thousands of star systems spanning a vast region of space known as the Inner Sphere. The golden age of cooperation and advancement is now a distant memory, and humanity has once again splintered into disparate factions all vying for supremacy.In the midst of these Succession Wars, power hungry Mercenaries like yourself are in a privileged position to capitalize big time. It’s dangerous work but that’s why you’re here, right? If you’ve got an itch to blast, wreck, stomp and go all out ballistic, step inside and become your own weapon of war!As the inheritor of a once-prominent Mercenary company, reborn in the flames of its near destruction at the hands of conspiring factions, your quest for glory and revenge will stretch light-years as you chase threads of interstellar intrigue along your journey to becoming an elite MechWarrior and mercenary commander.Check out a trailer below.
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