You would need at least two joysticks to do everything the Steel Battalion controller could - and you'd need analog foot pedals, too.

That's true, but I was talking about MW4 when it came to the cockpit.

What was an MW4 cockpit like?

I sure am. Unfortunately I've never been able to own it because of it's price and rarity, but my old roommate had it and I played the game plenty a few years back.

@Vlad-I don't even think Mechwarrior 4 even had all the complexities built into the game that Steel Battalion had. The controller is specifically made to the game mechanics of Steel Battalion and they're supposed to mimic exactly how a true simulation of a mech might be like. There are controls there for the most mundane of tasks. Considering this is a console game I'm talking about, I suppose a console can very easily handle a complex mech game if handled correctly, i.e. add a mandatory $200+ cockpit purchase to play the game with.

Oh it was nothing official, he built it himself just for the coolness factor. The game didn't have a special controller with it. I'd post pictures, but they are of the paper kind (it has been a while, where did all the years go?) and they don't do well with the internets.

@Onyx

I will be very happy if they did that with the 360 version and didn't let the PC version suffer tragically, however I doubt that it will happen.

Shit yeah, man. That game was the game. I managed to get it into VGChartz Top Ten best Xbox games by myself just from loving it so damn much.

The fact that it's not backwards compatible is one of the greatest tragedies of the 360.

Of course it probably won't happen. Steel Battalion was probably a small financial disaster for Capcom. The game was so daunting, it turned off the most hardcore of mech fans, and paying that much for a controller to play with only one game is a lot to ask. I don't think the keyboard and mouse could keep up in translation from a controller like that, even if they could map everything to the keys.

The game was so sim that in the second game, which was online multiplayer, if you failed to eject your pilot before your mech blew up, you were kicked from the match, because seemingly if your pilot was dead, so were you. If you managed to eject, you would be able to play the next round in a fresh mech. There was no respawning.

It would have been a financial disaster for Capcom, but it was produce in limited quantities and sold at a very high magrin.

And I remember it being funded by Microsoft - Microsoft comes to CAPCOM and says "Make any kind of game you want, and we will pay for it. Let's see what you can do."

We got the best, ball-crushingest, most hardest, simmest mech sim of all time. Damn that game was worth the $150 I paid for it.

I never played Steel Battalion, I would like to play it for curiosities sake but I doubt I would like it.

steel batalion sounds fun :p

I hardly see what the second joystick was for though... torso rotation? you have joysticks that you can twist for that (so 3 axis kinda on the joystick).

But yeah, hard to get the same feel as whole board dedicated to the game :p