Of course, there is another mecha game fast approaching on its stompy legs: the much ballyhooed Titanfall from Respawn Entertainment. This is already proving something of a lodestone in gaming as it pits the aggrieved team that formerly constituted Infinity Ward - the geniuses who reinvented the first person shooter with their world famous Call of Duty franchise - against their old bosses at Activision who fired them out of alleged avarice. So we definitely have a lot of emotional baggage in play with this title. But Titanfall is also drawing a lot of attention for another reason: it promises to repeat the success of CoD by reinventing a very stale shooter genre yet again. Will the devs catch lightning in a bottle for a second time? Did I mention that I have about twelve hours in the beta so far? Yeah. Twelve hours in the Titanfall beta. Sort of gives away the answer, doesn't it?
Because Edmund Burke would have been a gamer....