Pretty disappointed, despite being a fan of MechWarrior franchise. The difficulty curve is steep and missions are pretty generic. As one of the reviewers for the game said, the boredom settles in fairly quickly. Once you get to the starmap, during the first campaign mission you will get slaughtered so you have to grind out all the side contracts, which are pretty repetitive, in the hopes to earn some more cash. The game is unforgiving if you don't perform well on missions and will cost you plenty of C-Bills for repairs and replaced components. Prepare to get swarmed every mission. Moving between star systems is also an expensive ordeal, which you have to do to get better gear. The battles themselves are pretty good and graphics are decent, considering the last game came out almost two decades ago. I would say wait until the game is on sale and then buy.