* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic - The sequel uses licensed music for its soundtrack and the tracks ([[Music/{{Korn}} Korn's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRPxao3e_jY Right Now]] and [[Music/PapaRoach Papa Roach's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rdmG0k8S8k Getting Away With Murder]]) make for awesome boss fights.
* AntiClimaxBoss: Adept Strader piloting the Ragnarok. The Word of Blake pose a decent threat with their overwhelming numbers compared to the Dragoons, but their leader fights you without any other mechs to support him. Despite Ragnarok being the strongest mech in the game, a fully topped off Mad Cat, Thor, Atlas or their variants will be able to outmaneuver and destroy it with relative ease. Even on the second hardest difficulty, as long as you keep moving, his Lava Gun is unlikely to hit you. And while his missiles and gauss rifle can deal decent damage, he won't use them as frequently as the player can use their most efficient weapons. You'll be able to tell how close Strader is to death by his desperate claims of superiority, and if you're deadly enough, you'll hear them within about 3 seconds of each other.
* BestBossEver: The SpiderTank boss in the 2nd game is absolutely awesome! The introduction to the mech starts off as a quiet empty swamp, and after taking a few steps, the game shows the boss mech itself: a hulking robot spider that is ''so huge'' it makes your already big mech (either a Thor or Mad Dog) look like Battle Armor in comparison. The spider mech charges towards you before trampling you down with its arms, followed by either a plasma [=PPC=] or a WaveMotionGun! To take it down, you blast off the armor on its 6 legs before laying waste on its exposed body. When it finally dies, the spider mech blows up in a spectacular light show. As mentioned above, [[Music/PapaRoach Papa Roach's]] Getting Away With Murder plays as the Spider Mech boss' theme.
* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The sound of picking up salvage, ''especially'' if you're able to do so to heal up after a particularly grueling battle, and of course the sound of an enemy 'Mech exploding, one of the most satisfying explosion sounds in all of gaming.