Since I refuse to buy EA games from EA (I refuse to give them any more of my money) I waited until I could get this used, and picked it up at gamestop.
Now, this is kind of a weird game for me - in that I enjoyed it immensely at first... and now not so much. Once the campaign part was over, it basically just turned into online deathmatches with mechs. Now the game never claimed to be anything else, so that's okay, but it just doesn't really appeal to me now. Even as cool as the mechs are, and with some pretty awesome game mechanics that I'm sure will be seen in games to come in the future - it got pretty stale for me pretty fast. I'll most likely be trading it back in on something else to be honest. I'm just not the "kill everyone on the other team" kind of guy. If you are, then this is probably something you want to pick up. It definitely has its moments, and I can see that a lot of people are thoroughly enjoying it. I'm just not one of them.