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Kind of crazy to see the evolution of the PPC from game to game. In Mech2 it was this slow moving blue ball that had no ability to lock on. In Mech3 and Mech4 it was a fast trail of lightning. In Mechassault it is a combination of both with a hold and charge and a lock. The Plasma PPCs in Mechassault 2 were way cool but I am not sure if they did as much damage.

I remember this being on a demo disk for Oddworld Munich’s Odysee I think. Never looked into it much at the time. Thanks for posting.

I remember Azurik being a big deal before release. People I knew were excited at least. And the final game wasn't that bad.

I subscribed because of Azurik, was playing it at the time and enjoyed your videos on it! Coincidentally I then went on to play the first four MGS games, truly epic.

This game honestly changed the way I look at things, it's that crazy

This games so prophetic. Raiden was a useful idiot while solidus was trying to free us. Crazy how he was actually a "Good guy"

That OUATITW analogy at the end had me rolling! Well developed and thorough review of a game that was cast in a bad light from the get go. I personally agree when you call it a masterpiece. I really enjoyed this game over the last twenty or so years. My best friend and I ended up renting Azurik from our local grocery store only because all the copies of Halo were gone already that Friday night. I'm glad we did. Anyone could take in massive amounts of Halo gameplay and eventually it's a broken record. But Azurik was a tad different in all the right ways. Well done.

This feels like the Dharma Initiative brainwashing video in LOST

All my homies hate nihilism.

For the longest time, I always thought why didn't the Ragnarok use its pulse lasers like in the mission briefing on Ready to Rok, and if it did, the lava gun could be used like the jump jets. The same thing goes for the Ymir, though whose to say, if were to use Hammer missiles it could stand a better chance of survival, much less on the rating overall which I do have to agree with.

I played this a lot back in 2005. Not sure if it will ever get any attention ever again in the industry but my memories are fond :3

Water realm was my FAVORITE! I miss this game! I have thought about it a lot over the years. My step dad played this and I was so intrigued that I had to play it.

I actually agree a lot with you on all these points. I used to see ads in gaming magazines for this game and wanted to check it out. However, the reviews were so poor that I thought it wasn't worth playing. I played and beat it a few years back and while it does has it's flaws it's actually an amazing game. Mech Assault is another forgotten series. It was wonderful. As a collector the og xbox it's awesome because it's relatively inexpensive to collect for but it's sad that many og xbox games never got sequels.

Thank you for this

When I had a working copy I loved this game

Games back in the day are way better than todays games Graphics > gameplay = pretty but useless Gameplay > graphics = fun experience

I'd reach out to one of the game directors of azurik, I'm not entirely sure Microsoft is entirely to blame for it's failure. Microsoft didn't own the developer of azurik, so no doubt they signed a contract with a budget and release date in mind. Halo was in rough shape a couple months before release but ended up coming together as a classic. Bungie was definitely the more talented development studio.

This was developed to be Microsoft's Zelda

Two years late, but I must say, thanks for the playthrough and review! I got recommended a video of someone streaming this game and clicked just bc the character looked like the "Blue" music video, really glad it lead to this channel and videos.

you could easily get around the inverted controls by buying a Brook wingman XB 2 converter and using an xbox elite controller with a invert preset

This was a favorite of mine! I loved combining the elements!

Azurik came out 20 years too early. If it came out today it would be a perfect fit to other 3rd Person action RPG games of this era. Something close to the Horizon Games.

Love this game, thanks for uploading with commentary, Machine JTP removed his, I like the walkthrough with commentary best

Anyone who puts a 12 Angry Men reference in their video is qualified to review a video game in my book. XD Nice work dude.

I was sadly too young to play Xbox Live, but man would it have been fun to go head to head against real players.

I loved this game all throughout my childhood. This game was so incredibly special to me, tied with memories of my childhood.

I'm paraphrasing but "I want to be sure to convince you I am qualified to review this game" says the channel called "The Azurik Fanatic" that I just found because I randomly remembered this game from my OG Xbox and was curious what someone else's thoughts were on it. Forgive me if I don't just take your word for it based on your channel name. Very informative and well set up coverage. Thanks chief.

This game really brings me back, very much ahead of its time. All the different realms and out of this world entities you battle with, your armaments and the tiers you build up (hence the backtracking), it's also pretty difficult at times. The environments are unique and I'll leave it at that, I remember wanting to be in some, and others hitting some strange phobia.

The ending of this game was open for a sequel, to bad we will never see it. A very underrated game and one of my favorite game for xbox.

This is a surprisingly thoughtful and in-depth critical review. I'm impressed, and I'm glad this video exists

I played this game as a kid when I was top bored of halo or the fusion frenzy demos. I never had a guide or understood what I was doing, so I brute forced my way into having all 4 elements and killing the boss in the underwater dome area thing. Past that I got stuck at the fire area and dropped the game. I'm glad I got to see what was over that perverbial wall.

I always wanted to play this game. I never got my chance to. But it just looks like so much fun

I love this game so fucking much

100 hours of MEANINGFUL gameplay is truly a difficult feat.

Hey I am a long time mechassault fan, still playing 1 and 2 with friends very frequently since 20 years almost. I disagree with you strongly and will tell you why the bowman is better than the prometheus and the ragnarok. A bowman can beat a prometheus and ragnarok easily because those ones over heat very easily and the bowman can shoot hammer after hammer after hammer after hammer in infinity without ever over heating. You can recharge it for 1 second and shoot these 2 hammers like crazy when you have the skills and you can crush every mech in the game, ragnarok or prometheus can't. Bowman is definitely the best mech in this game. Prometheus is number 2, Ragnarok is number 3 and Madcat number 4. Ymir number 5 if you know how to properly manage the over heating and not shoot like a mad man with it. If he didn't over heat it so fast he would be a lot more enjoyable. Take two hammer specialists and they always choose the Bowman over Prometheus, you can move better, just go right in the face of your opponent and shoot those hammers in their face, which is impossible with the prometheus because he is slow as hell... We make a lot of prometheus vs ragnarok matches also and prometheus is absolutely great, just less good than a Bowman expert.

Dude we really are a part of the pioneers that played those early exclusives on OG XBOX. Wish they'd bring this one back. I never got to beat it but I loved exploring all the different worlds and gaining the different powers.

i like that youre a fanatic

I'm just going to make an assumption that they wanted to balance the Flamers for the mech to hopefully not make to make the DLC it came from feel like it was P2W (something that would be an issue with some DLC in the video games industry MUCH LATER) as while it's a good to possibly overheat a mech, if you're overzealous with the Hellbringer as seen in the very first clip of it, you nearly get killed because you got caught in the mech's explosion radius to the point that if that was an online match instead of a survival match anyone from another team would see you as easy prey.

"For me it was at the top of the Chrysler Building"

The cougar is my baby. It has a cute nose and flies.

Hey, man, my cougar is garbage, but I can still do a little work with it.

I still never played this game. It's one of those games I watched the trailer on my old Xbox countless times and tell myself,it looks good. If they added to Xbox one as a backwards compatibility,I would buy it

At the very beginning of the video, but man I randomly remembered this game the other day and literally nobody else I know played this game

How did you record audio and video from this playthrough? I've been meaning to get some clean audio from this game for a while and don't know how

I noticed that the Loki's heat management is fantastic. I remember getting about 62 kills with him on Grinder enhanced, and I never overheated.

Me in 2022

SpiderKong!

So much potential with this game props to the Devs, still remember this game super well

An essential part of my childhood. This game along with a few other Xbox originals will always hold a special place in my heart. It’s very unfortunate that it’s not supported via backwards compatibility on the series x/s. 4K, HDR, with FPS boost would have really been awesome. Hopefully with future breakthroughs in original Xbox emulation someone will use AI upscaling for the textures and bring back some life to this game.

People still play Mechassault? Well shit, how do I join up?