


It was created by American developer Wandering Samurai Studios.

Because the project changes the play-style and feel of the game it is originally based on (Crysis and Crysis Warhead) so completely as to be unrecognizable in comparison, it is billed as a "full-conversion" mod, since little to no trace of the original game's art or play-style (besides the most basic menus seen when first loading the game) exists any longer within MW:LL. On December 26, 2009, an open beta (version 0.1.0) was released via BitTorrent and other distribution methods. Mechwarrior: Living Legends (also known as MW:LL or MWLL) is a fan-created multiplayer mod of Crysis, based in the BattleTech universe, and using CryEngine 2 as its engine it is one of the few mods based on the BattleTech universe (and its supporting Intellectual property) to have been sanctioned by Microsoft-who currently (as of 2011) owns the rights to the Mechwarrior video-game franchise-and additionally received pre-SDK support and sanctioning directly from Crytek, producers of the games' engine.
