It got your Xbox Live Gold subscription off to a good start. MechAssault was a day-one launch game for Xbox Live on November 15, 2002, and boy was it fun! It stripped the simulation bits out of MechWarrior and left it with the pure fast-action, and the result made for some really unique, frantic multiplayer.
I will always associate my most positive memories of Xbox Live Gold with a small handful of games: MechAssault, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six 3, Links 2004, Halo 2, and 1 vs. Couple that with every Xbox Live kit being bundled with a chat headset and, very quickly, $50 per year for the service didn’t seem so bad. Xbox Live bet (wisely) on the future, allowing only high-speed connections into Xbox’s walled garden, thus ensuring a smooth experience for everyone. As a result, some players had a leg up thanks to their high-speed connection, and others were stuck on dial-up 56k modems. Eventually I had a high-speed Internet connection via a cable modem, but the transition didn’t happen at the same time for everyone.
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