I remember thinking my head was going to explode the first time I played this and thinking "how could graphics EVER get any better than this."

This MW game is my favorite. Everything about it was right, and I played through it several times. The story was wonderful and I really felt like the mechs had mass. It was so much fun.

Damn, Zipper really knew how to set up an atmosphere. While other Mechwarrior games are corny and cheesy (and that can be charming), Mech 3 actually feels authentic, like you're in the middle of a war and shit is going south pretty fast. Mech Commander and Mech 4 on the other hand feels a lot like the Command & Conquer FMVs of old, lol. Mech 5 is apparently trying to be more serious and grounded... but it apparently also falls flat on it's face. Mech 3 remains the king in that aspect, imo, followed from a distance by Mech 2 Mercs.

I played a good number of games from the golden era of PC gaming in the 90’s. That included way around a couple dozen mech games that I owned. Mechwarrior 3 is the most memorable and fun out of all of them. Even the box art gave me great joy. The graphics and gameplay were unbelievable. The ultimate mech experience.

So wish they would relanuch this game, best mechwarrior ever! thanks for the video!

I loved this. More please.

That intro brings back so many good memories. This was a great game.

I played soooo much of this game.

The walking animation is outstanding!

Still wonder how they messed up the Bushwackers Stock Configuration. Supposed to have Double Heat Sinks but the one you start with has Singles, which is why The first few levels until you can salvage a Double is PAIN.

Which 2D card did you use? The game throws a "Failed to initialize video device" error with a 4MB Ati Graphics Pro Turbo with the same setting (P2 200 MHz+V2 SLI)

immer noch goil

did you have the cd-rom iso in the virtual D drive? If so the game should be playing the soundtrack during the mission. Must have the music.

You get a feeling for the weight of those things in this video. In Mech Warrior Online they just feel far too nimble for such colossal machines.

Commander voice sounds familiar. Wonder if he’s the same actor that played Col. Dubois in Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendency? Came out not long after this.

"COM"-piu-tah sounds

How did you set this up?

Demayz

It's not necessary to emulate this in PCem. The game will run natively on modern versions of Windows with a few modifications. Unfortunately the frame rate (then and now) needs to be caped due to in-game physics.

GA-8I865GME-775-RH (rev. 3.9) c2d motherboard on 8i865 chipset with w98 drivers , no need emulation ;)

Since you emulated Windows 98, you should try VMWare. I was able to do a better emulation to play old games with VMWare under Vista and Win7 on a circa2008 (purchased on closeout in early 2009) Gateway 4200DX with then stock components. That 15 year old computer is far inferior to your rig so I imagine VMware would do better on your system. It played a game called "Jane's Fleet Command" under emulation better than my 1ghz Dell Optiplex GX110 which dual boots Win98SE and XP without emulation.

who played with a flight sim joystick (of the era) ? SSSOOOO much better than KB.

Gotta be the worst drop scenario since quake 2 haha

Empty your recycle bin!

MW3 was a huge step up from the good old MW2. Although MW2 was 100% into the clan-lore, MW3 gave a better...immersion into the universe at it's current state. (I haven't read the books beyond the Battle of Tukayyid back then). Overall just a very well designed and produced game. The german dubbing was on the spot, which is today no longer a must have even for AAA games (Diablo 4...). I Should have never sold my old rig with the Athlon Thunderbird 133/1200 and the Diamond Monster 3dfx II Voodoo 2 🤣