the background noise

A moment of appreciation if you will for the humble giant robot, mecha or walking tank. Playing a lot of MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries lately, a 'war-em-up' set in your standard grim future of near total conflict across, between and beyond the stars. Why it's been a good long while since last I played one of these. In fact there was no less than a nineteen year gap between this game and MechWarrior 4 . not entirely certain that was the game I played then or whether it was perhaps a budget release of MechWarrior 3. Regardless that's o ne nine years  I tell you! Sure there's been mobile and online games in that time but by and large this is a series with some serious underexposure in my humble opinion. Shame really, because when it's firing on all laser cannons, it satisfies that ever eternal need to pilot a giant bipedal tank through a future battlefield whilst wrecking all what you see. I'm having a lot of fun with this game is what I'm saying

I've been playing Metal Wolf Chaos XD , a special kind of crazy. A game in which the US President wages war on an attempted coup d'etat against America by taking on the villainous forces of his Vice President armed in a ridiculously, implausible mech suit. He may be wearing a war machine but his true power is the love of his country. 

Presenting the first of an infrequent series where I showcase my all time favourite video game music, starting with this little gem from Deus Ex ...