Getting some Rainy-Saturday-Reading™ done and listening to MechWarrior 2 soundtrack #battletech
I still consider MechWarrior 2 to be the best and most truthful electronic gaming adaptation of (a small aspect of) FASA's excellent (and huge) BattleTech universe.
IMHO, the title's soundtrack by Gregory Alper & Jeehun Hwang remains one of the best original scores for any game ever - not to speak of the game featuring the best computer voice ever either ;)
I devoured most BattleTech novels as a teenager, especially those authored by Robert N. Charrette. What about you? If not, you owe it to yourself as a Sci-Fi fan ;)
Thanks to the treasure trove that is YouTube, you can enjoy some gameplay footage - in all of its sparsely textured glory- if you missed out on MechWarrior 2 nearly fifteen years ago.
A quick Google search reveals that I don't seem to be alone with my appreciation for the soundtrack.
You can listen to it at the Videogame Music Preservation Foundation.
I'm off to the cellar to unearth my copy - if I remember right it had a nifty small-format mech manual, with pilot scribbles and fingerprints all over it ;)
