Most haunting sentence of my childhood, "He's got a lock on me! HE'S GOT A LOCK ON-..."

There is a good reason beyond nostalgia that this intro resonates with so many of us. It's a crucial element missing from conventional story telling, especially in gaming. A true sense of danger. No catering to the greater will of the player/hero. Just two soldiers slaughtered by an unknown opponent, and it's done cinematically af. I fucking love this game.

When I first saw this cinematic I shit myself back then--- looking back, to this day, it still holds up. That was ahead of its time!

This cinematic along with the Clans Wolf and Jade Falcon intros still give me chills to this day. This game was THE game of my childhood, haha. Oh god the memories, I remember my dad and I taking turns playing it, that was before the days where him and all other parents decided that videogames were evil. I still own the original disk, and I usually sink 12 hours or so into it about once a year for nostalgia purposes. I have the original soundtrack on my ipod as well.

I was working in the gaming industry at the time and along with my colleagues, I attended the Activision Australia launch of MW2 at the Hordern Pavillion in Sydney. We were all awed by this intro. It was gobsmacking to see it in broadcast quality on a big screen in an auditorium full of people. It gave us all chills. It happened on a Friday night from memory and a group of us spent the next weekend solidly playing the BattleTech pods at Intencity Hurstville. I survived on hardly any sleep and rubbish food, but came away fantastic memories that have stayed with me for 25 years.

I remember seeing this being played in full broadcast quality at E3 '95. A former colleague of mine was involved in the creation of this at CA based SFX house Digital Domain. The sequence was completed in early 1995 and was used extensively in promotion and advertising. FormZ and Alias were used for modelling all assets, animation and rendering was done in SoftImage|3D.

One of the best game trailers ever....still holds up

i remember feeling like a total bad ass because I was able to do the full install of the game at 150MB with my new computer

THIS is the REAL MW2

That's what you get when you put fucking machineguns on your madcat's arm mounts.

By today's standards that was all kind of horrible. But man...*man* if you had been there then...this stuff was gold back in the 90s. Pure, unadulterated gold

Ah, one of the very first "unskippable" intro cinematics I ever saw, and still one of the best, even after all these years. Thanks for uploading.

Nostalgia level insanely high.

25 years later it's still awesome.

I like how the 2nd enemy mech twists and turn to spread damage, obviously a seasoned MWO player :D

The team who made this intro did a great job. I always loved how the timberwolf torso twisted and actually over ran the target slightly and swung back. That combined with the sounds made you really feel how heavy and massive these machines were.

"It's got a lock on me! IT'S GOT A LOCK O-" *BOOM*

Still just amazes me that this holds up even today.

In my opinion this is one of the best intro scenes in a video game. Few can match it and even fewer can beat it.

Music is still epic.

I love how the Mad Cat's torso twists and locks onto the Thor. This was really great animation, SFX, and voice acting considering its time as well as comparing it to its sequels.

The voices, actions and music are so well paced.

First game i got on my 266mhz Pentium 2 with mmx, 4mb rage 3d card. man those were the days. Loved the game and the soundtracks were amazing.

Heat level critical! Shutdown system initiated... Shutting down...

The tone and atmosphere of Mechwarior 2 was so intense, dark and gripping. I've not seen a game replicate the feeling it gave me playing as a young kid. Whenever I booted up the game on my playstation I would never skip the intro scene, cause it got me hyped as fuck. I love the dark gregorian chanting, mixed with the thudding sound effects, the hopeless desperation in the other mech pilot as he begs for assistance only to be brutally incinerated,. The cold emotionless AI narrating the status of the mech and the grittyness of the visuals really makes this game stand out. I havent played the other mech games but I have a feeling even they don't quite capture the ambiance and gaming experience this variant of the game offers. And the best part? All of this actuallly translates to ingame play, and isn't just a trailer pulling its weight. It shows you what the game wants to offer and by god does it actually deliver.

This is my favorite MechWarrior intro..

I remember playing this game. Those were the days.

Best intro -- ever. Still gives me goosebumps. Awesome game.

Man this brings back memories. What a great game this was. Totally awesome intro and totally awesome game. For a game released in 1995, the visuals were incredible. The 1990's was such a memorable decade in PC gaming.

where the choir bit starts: 0.48 has always given me chills since i first saw this ._.

This is when games were designed for maximum gameplay...... and not just shiney graphics

when i had my first salary this is the first game that i bought, oh man brings back memories of no sleep :)

One of the best games ever.... we need to go back in time and do this shit again!!!

One of the best video game intros ever. Still gives me chills.

Basically a PUG match d in a nutshell. Allied Timberwolf was dumb and charged into the fight too quickly and got teamed up on by two summoners and got heavily damaged. The Timberwolf in the intro soon reached the fight and one shotted the summoner that decided to be dumb and jumpjet straight into the air and get obliterated by the Timberwolf's 4 ER PPC alpha build before ghost heat patch. Of course the heat was still incredibly high and all he had left to fire with was the two paltry machine guns. Meanwhile the summoner had a arm mounter with actuators a CLAN AC 20 in its arm and at that super close range got lucky and scored a headshot. Trust me I know because I had this EXACT same situation happen in MWO on a map that looks very similar to this.

I as a 16 yea old kid my dad presented me as a gift for Christmas this game together with a nice joystick... What a great gift, I played this gamey and the add on for month....soany good remories... And a few month later he have me the add on (in the snow)... What fantastic times.. Wish I could play these games with current pc systems... Was so perfect!

This is one of the most awesome game intro's ever made. remember when i was like 10 y old when i played this game for countless hour's. You never get tired of hearing "Enemy mech destroyed" ;)

Bandits are hostile , repeat bandits are hostile...

One of the BEST game intros!

After all this years i still get goosebumps watching this...

I think this is (eventhough dated graphics) still one of the most epic intro sequences to a game. I got the original CD somewhere still...all dusted and stuff.

Classic mechs. Really fabulous music too.

my child hood right here lol

Yeah, this was an absolute classic piece of FMV.

Anyone who uses "MW2" to refer to a game other than this one has failed as a gamer and a human being.

Back when I had my 166 Pentium.

This video gave me goose bumps when I saw it at best buy on a 486dx4 100mhz

One of the best games ever. And the soundtrack was absolutely epic.

I remember that day when i installed it, that day, was a good day.

one of the best intros ever

Titan Fall has nothing on this .

Thumbs up to whomever put the game CD into their CD player to listen to the games OST on repeat.

Best. Intro. Ever.

I got to play this game every birthday for like 3 or 4 years. Yes I watched the intro everytime.

This cutscene hyped me up so much for this game as a kid. So many great memories.

Still some of the best music of any game made IMO. MW2 was so good for a lot of reasons, think I still have my CD around here somewhere :)

No me canso de recordar este juego....sigue siendo mi referencia del universo de Battletech..... y el final "please comply" XD

I cannot believe the memories this brought back. I must have watched this intro a 100 times with my pc hooked up to my stereo system cracked up to 11! I have read through a lot of the comments and someone else commented on the pilot not firing his PPC's again. The first time I saw this intro I was thinking enough of the machine guns already they wont do much to a Summoner! I use to play the Fasa board game of MechWarrior with the dice for hit probability and the marking off hits to the armor with pencil. The first MechWarrior PC game was fun enough with bidding for jobs (don't overbid with House Kurita) and the simple and fun graphics. Mechwarior 2 was a quantum leap forward and is still a solid game to this day!

Hey... that clanner used a contraction.

Over fifteen years and I still love the ending of this... "Weapons Depleted" "Alpha Assault, this is HQ, what is your situation?" KABOOM

"My 'Mech, THE MACHINE GUNS DO NOTHING!"

Aaaahh. This brings back some good memories. Mechwarrior and Descent were great. :)

I remember it was Christmas ‘97 and we got our first IBM PC with Windows 95 Installed. This game was included with the computer. I was in the first grade at the time. I remember playing this game with my older brother in the weekends. Brings back so many memories

I played the crap out of this game when I was a kid, I use to listen to this soundtrack on the bus going to school xD

fuck those were some kick ass nights I had as a 10 yr old.

WOW!!! Thanks for posting this!! This took me back to the day!

This intro is above any other that I've ever seen in my entire life, far surpassing any of the current generation. I wish more kids would appreciate good games like this. I used to play this 1v1 with my dad, but now we can't play any more with our current OS :(

Mech 2 remains the best game I ever wrote. : )

I remember my brother and I playing this together, I would shoot the guns and he would do all the movements. That was a long ass time ago now haha probably 1999 or 2000.

Probably the 1st game I felt I was in. Fully immersive realism . Mega game.

I watched this intro for the first time in a shopping mall in 1995. It was one of the best games of the era.

That intro gave me a "wet nose".

if that was terra therma he would have overheated after turning on the mech lol.

0:48 when the Machine guns start spraying and the music ramps up... epic

When I was little I played this with dad and I bought it for PlayStation yesterday so now the old man wants to relearn it! So many good memories

Long Since Dead Video Game that kicked all ass back in the day (1997 or so).it came out in 1995 actually and thats when i played it :)

this game made me buy a Pentium 1 to play kickass game. I still have a P1 system now to play it along with countless other classic games

Thanks so much for uploading this. I felt a wave of nostalgia and came looking for it.

THIS was the game of my childhood. I was a Jade Falcon while my dad was faithful to clan wolf. So as you could imagine, there was tension in our household.

What I find amusing about this is that when this game first came out back in 1995, I said to myself, "If they could make the actual games look as good as this intro, now THAT would be amazing!" LOL. Here it is 2015 and games look WAY better than this.

HQ: This is HQ to any available units: We have 'Mechs down at Nav Gamma. Bravo Cadet reports four Summoners on site. Bandits are hostile. Repeat: Bandits are hostile. Alpha Assault: HQ this is Alpha Assault. I'm on my way, bearing zero-two-five. Computer: ETA: Thirty-four seconds. Bravo Cadet: Alpha Assault this is Bravo Cadet, I've got bandits all over me! G-Get down here! Alpha Assault: Sit tight Bravo Three, I've got visual. Bravo Cadet: I've got hip actuators out! I've-targeting system's damaged! I'm in bad shape! Computer: Enemy Detected. Bravo Cadet: Behind me, two of 'em, beyond the rise! Alpha Assault: Roger, I've got 'em. Computer: Targeting. [Alpha Assault fires a volley of four PPC energy blasts at a Summoner emerging from behind the right side of a rocky spire, destroying it in mid-air, just after it activates its jump jets] Bravo Cadet: It's got a lock on me! it's got a lock on... [Emerging from beyond a rise, another Summoner destroys Bravo Cadet with a missile] Computer: Targeting. [Alpha Assault opens fire on the second Summoner with dual machine guns while the Summoner retreats behind the left side of the rocky spire] Computer: Warning: Ammunition levels critical. Computer: Weapon depleted. [A Summoner emerges from the right side of the nearby rise and destroys Alpha Assault with a missile at point blank range] HQ: Alpha Assault this is HQ, what is your situation? Alpha Assault this is HQ, what is your situation?! Please comply!

This game, Crusader: No Remorse, C&C1 and Warcraft 2 will always remind me of my childhood, when i first started playing computer games. This intro stuck with me the most, though. The music is awesome, graphics are still epic imo. Thanks for the upload!

I will never forget this amazing intro of the demo I had when I was a teenager. Too bad to have missed the complete game back then.

i was 3 when i played this game and i love it is the first pc i played

When you forget to put at least 3-4 tons of MG ammo.

This brought back so many awesome memories. Thanks for the upload!

Thanx for uploading this, I spent to much time playing this when it came out.

Should have fired the PPCs again... NUB!!

-Alfasol! This is Rob-O Cadet! An abandonned solo army c-c-c'you get down here?! -Sit tight Rob-O 3 I've got visual. -I've hit the evacuators out. Our targeting system's damaged! I'm in bad shape. [ENEMY DETECTED] -Training, Jule, Pete on the line! -Roger, I've got it. [TARGETING]

holy shit my childhood. its good to see you again

Holy hell I loved this game. Had my first job and I remember trying my damnedest to get off early to go home and play. I used to say the this intro video over and over in my head ( and sometimes out loud ).

Bullshit, everyone knows that Madcats/Timber Wolves are all about rockets.

So this mech has 2 PPC and 2 Machine guns.. with the LRMS i suppose.. Bro your build is BAD! LMFAO :)

i used to loveeeeeee this game when i was a kid... my father was a die hard fan of this game and made me play... and i used to loveeeeee this intro .. the audio on this game was epic...

Ahhh how I miss this game. I remember the first time I fired it up and watched the intro.....goose bumbs galore. I also drug every friend I could find to watch the intro. Epic!

I remember always being scared of this intro as a kid.

I was 11 when this came out. Still one of the coolest dramatic openings of any Mechwarrior

Man that brings back so many memories. My cousin had it, and he uploaded it on my Grandma's PC and it was just awesome! I miss that game, she sold it without asking if anyone else wanted it, since he didn't anymore.

this is still the coolest thing ive seen in a video game in my life