Modular Assault Vehicle is a

third-person shooter Third-person shooter (TPS) is a subgenre of 3D shooter games in which the gameplay consists primarily of shooting. It is closely related to first-person shooters, but with the player character visible on-screen during play. While 2D shoot ...

game created by American indie studio Bombdog studios as a spiritual successor to

Chromehounds is a 2006 mech simulator video game developed by FromSoftware and published by Sega for the Xbox 360. The game is set in an alternate universe where mecha known as HOUNDs battle for control of Neroimus, a fictional region near the Black Sea. ' ...

Plot

The game is set in the near future, after a comet impacts with the Jovian moon Europa. A mining colony /

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colony is established on the now habitable moon to harvest resources to send back to a failing Earth. Due to the dire state of the planet Earth, the miners are quickly enslaved and forced into work camps. Eventually, these miners use the mining machines themselves to form a revolution.

Gameplay

Gameplay has been said to be similar to

, but with several modernizations and improvements.{{Cite news, url=https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/3dpd8n/remembering-from-softwares-forgotten-mech-classic-chromehounds, title=Remembering From Software's Forgotten Mech Classic, 'Chromehounds', date=2017-02-07, work=Waypoint, access-date=2018-05-31, language=en-us Limbs and weapons blow off when destroyed and tactical mistakes can be punishing.

References

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