Pretty bad transition to 6th gen. The mechs feel weightless and less tactile than the PSX trilogy's, the visual design's kind of washed-out and bland, and it's about twice as long as it needs to be. There's a big difficulty spike from those games, but because it mostly amounts to more engagement with the series' awful aiming mechanics it didn't really deepen this one. Arena load-times made this particularly agonizing.

Was delighted to find that Francis York Morgan's in the game, doing his snidest, evilest voice as one of your employers. The antagonist's sadly forgettable but there is one inexplicable moment at the end where your codec wife expresses her agreement with his plan to institute an ambiguous form of totalitarian control over the human race.