Heavy Gear

Heavy Gear (1997)

by Activision
Genres:Shooter, Simulator
Themes:Action, Science fiction
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:In a distant future on a planet called Terra Nova an epic war is waged between the AST and the ECEF. You are a "gear" pilot for one of these sides as you join the battle for supremacy. You pilot the various Heavy Gears (large Biped fighting robots) in a variety of mission either playing through the storyline for both factions or participating in the endless dynamic war going on between the two. As you get promoted you gain access to better gears and more destructive weaponry to accomplish your goals.Show more
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user avatar@Ferluciiuser avatar@Ferlucii
January 30, 2025
I got this box for christmas as a kid. Must have read the manuel 50 times. Great ingame movies, great art. The atmosphere was something else! <3 Really hope to play it again.
user avatar@Chillidogeuser avatar@Chillidoge
February 01, 2025
One of the first games I ever played, and a damn good one. By todays standards it wouldn't be all that, but the atmosphere of old sim games is delicious and Heavy Gear 1 is no exception. Built off the foundation of Activisions' Mechwarrior 2 engine, this game has a lot of its own flair and flavour to differentiate it. FMV cutscenes for plot and some pretty decent voice acting compared to today's efforts. With some tweaking of controls this one is a must-play for mech sim enthusiasts. This should be on GOG as the community repacks, while awesome (thanks mr wholesome) aren't the same as a re-release for modern systems. Please Mr GOG Santa, make this happen!
user avatar@temp.142user avatar@temp.142
February 02, 2025
Found it unexpectedly at a Sam's Club back in the 90s and was immediately hooked. It was my favorite game at the time and still one of my top games. I'd also like to see its sequel added as well. Give it the Dino Crisis 1+2 treatment and give us a Heavy Gear 1+2 release please!
Love this mech game. Much like mechwarrior and battletech. Build your own mechs. Customize load outs and missions are great challenges. Squad of gears. I played both 1 and 2. Both titles are great mech games, I have been looking for both 1 and 2.
user avatar@Elodioususer avatar@Elodious
January 31, 2025
This was a great counter-point to the combat in other popular mech games of the time like Mechwarrior 2 and Earthsiege. Gears (the mechs in this game line) are much smaller, and can move more quickly due to a wheeled secondary movement system. The game featured live-action cut scenes that focused on the North vs. South factions of Terra Nova, as well as a challenging campaign. This game, to my memory, stayed pretty close to the setting established by the publisher of the tabletop game, Dream Pod 9. Dream Pod 9, by the way, almost lost the license to their own game due to the predatory wording of the deal they had with Activision.
This was a precious birthday gift. My friends and I played this for hours every day. It would be interesting to play a deep and intricate mech game with an adult brain. Childhood was basically build a slow artillery platform and fire all as soon as I saw something.
user avatar@Arch-auser avatar@Arch-a
April 29, 2025
Found this in a bargain bin in a Co-Op supermarket clearance, England 1999. This game started what would become a life long love-affair with Mecha, and spoiled me to expect "real" well thought out robots ever more, sadly slightly poisoning me against Gundam forevermore. If it's done something Similar to you I implore you to check out "VOTOMs", apparently that show inspired the Canadian devs of this game. The SIM nature of this first game was always preferable to me over the action nature of the second, but both are wonderful. Despite STILL owning this game physically, it is incredibly difficult to get running properly on modern hardware and has some nasty game crash bugs in the campaign even on original hardware (so I never got to COMPLETE the campaign, instead putting hundreds of hours into the "freeplay" mode playing as the "badguys") Therefore a restoration of it from the GOG team would certainly make my decade!! I'd love to attempt the PVP online mode, which was incredible difficult to set up back on dial-up.
My first computer was a Compaq Presario CDS 526 AIO Windows 3.1... my first pc love lol... it was good, but it didn't run all the amazing games that came out at the time. After I managed to build a better one, one of the games I loved the most was Heavy Gear. Even though I didn't understand English at all, the game was intuitive for me, and I had countless hours of joy. Then Heavy Gear 2 was released, and later ones in Brazilian Portuguese... so my love for both games lasts to this day. Please put Heavy Gear 1 and 2 on GOG! A legion of fans like me will be eternally grateful =)
user avatar@boskiuser avatar@boski
May 08, 2025
Great game, with outstanding music - still have original cd box, but game not working. I think there will be one problem on digital build - game usues cd audio track for music.
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