Also, this game, does not have a story, it is a heavy multi-player game , if you are looking a meaningful story, I beg of you, turn a blind eye to this game for that.
Things that I hate about this game are, when you invade people' territories, and light on fire, especially if you know which team is doing it to you, it becomes a grind. Repeating the same territory with the same freaking turrets in the same area. Also, the server's need tweaking, especially on invasions, with other clans and clan mates, teh game either disconnects players or other team members as well. there are balance issues as well, there are certain things that need to be toned down like Gatling guns USG's, freaking strakoza's, and sniper rifles things and as for things that need to be toned up are normal rifles and pistols'....especially pistols, . Shotguns need to be slightly toned down but not severely.
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Clan wars are surreal, so if you get involved with an organized clan, prepare for some alliances and for some major b.s. to fly. I also wish the system to fight people for territory or defend made more sense sometimes, i get why the system is the way it is but other times, i wish, they could have added more features, but this is more of a progressive step to where I think armored core series needs to go towards.
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Things i love about this game, customization you have a lot of choices and you really need to pay attention to each mech's stats, and when you are starting don't buy parts that can specialize in anything ,and if you do, it'll be your choice, , you need to level up your weapons, and you might need up to 7 tries to get your weapon to do a fair amount of damge and do what you want in it's specialization. This may come across as a grind but i say that it's refreshing change, but that's just my opinion since it allows for experimentation and whatnot Also a lot of coloring and art, specifically on your emblems and you can make....pretty much anything. you might say anything ...really....? YES REALLY lots of bobbies and lolicons on mechs now a-days, surprised that xbl hasn't cracked the whip on that yet. also overed weapons or a hit or miss literally. So be wise about using them, you only get a few shots and you cannot use the weapons again, but you glow like a super sayian, so that's cool and it's inst-a-kill on any mech you hit
In short it's fun game but has a learning curve, and a lack of a story, a long with a buggy mutliplayer, but offers plenty of customization and strategy.
This game gets a 7.5 out from me
If your still in doubt, or unsure,my advice would be to rent for a couple of days, play online, see what you think of it, when in doubt try and do not fear change in something that might intimidate you.
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Alright so I'm not sure what those 1 star reviewers were expecting(gundams maybe?)but this game is certainly not a 1 star game, and it is an improvement over number four. First this game has an excellent integration of "teams", each consisting of 4 players and 1 overseer if you choose, which is fairly fun and similar to a party in other games. You can customize your teams emblem, colors, or even the defenses of the territory(s) that you hold. Any mission, whether story, against enemy AC's(what you play as), or a boss mission, can be played with your team. Once you've done a few missions and get some team points, you can challenge other teams for control of their territory, and when you take territories your teams emblem is put on the main map for all the world to see!As far as combat goes you are not the mach 5 super gundam fighter you were in ac4, you are a smaller mech with very different capabilities that rely more heavily on positioning, wise spending of your systems energy, proper use of the multitude of weapons at your disposal, and against other teams and certain bosses teamwork!(unlike acfa where you were so fast the only thing that seemed to even hit people were rifles and occasionally blades and snipers, now anything can be made deadly if you use it properly). Still a fast paced game, especially once you get past the terrible starting AC you get at the start, and the scale is still large just not open and overly bland.
Only gripe is that it is hard at first to figure out if you've never played an AC game but once you learn it or if you have a friend that can help you it quickly becomes fun. Overall it's solid and very fun to play, and is a definite must for any mech fan or even non-mech fans especially if you enjoy customization(it has boat loads of this)!
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I really, really miss Chromehounds. So early last year I started searching sites seeing if there was any word on a sequel.Someone mentioned that this game may be enough like Chromehounds to satisfy us Chromehounds fan-boys. So I pre-ordered it from Amazon.
I am a terrible gamer. I'm old (54) and slow, but I do love playing mech games. The levels of customization of your platform rock. The controls aren't too difficult to learn, and I love the fact that so far I'm down in the rubble versus zooming through the air.
If I can get my old Chromehounds squad to buy this, it has the possibility for many hours of fun. If not, I may get 20 or so achievement points and it'll end up on a shelf in my man-cave with all the other games I had high hopes for.
Game on.
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Ive played ALL Armored Core games since its birth. Not too mention Steel Battalion, Steel Battalion Line of Contact (until shortly after the servers went down), and a bunch of others. Including that abysmal game "Front Mission Evolved". No.. I never played "Steel Battalion Heavy Armor". Just looking at it was enough to cause pain. So anyway, onto the review.-Graphics: The mechs, the parts, the weapons, all look great. Seriously. The maps... No. Like all AC games they put about as much focus into the maps as you put into someone you throw into an oubliette. They forget about it. So dont expect any amazing landscapes or wonderous battlegrounds here. Its a bunch of buildings, streets, fences, and occasionally some open landscapes with a hue change. All their focus was on the mechs, your ability to change their colors and such. Which can be fun if you find a build you like, then you can sit there for hours staring at your creation admiring yourself.
-Single player story: Garbage. After you go to the trouble of fine tuning your masterpiece the single player campaign is no more than a series of simple "go kill it" or "go kill them" or "go do this/that and kill it/them". I beat the game, and it was so memorable I can't for the life of me tell you the point of the story. You cant even tell who you are fighting for in this game the story is that poorly written, and voice acted. All your base now belong to someone who wrote the dialogue.
-Multiplayer: Wow. The multiplayer has regions locked out. So basically you can only play with people in your region. If that wasnt bad enough, they advertise it as having a theatre mode. NO. Its a recording of a top down view of a schematic map, that has icons replacing the mechs and what they do is replaced by text actions. In other words "Bill448 killed Max2109" is the ONLY thing you get to see from yer battles. That and a circle with a number in it to represent you on a top down viewed map. They advertise this game as "5 vs 5". NO. this game locks 1 of the 5 players into a command role of telling other players on your team where to go and what to do. This should have been an optional ROLE. But no... sorry you have to sit there and watch from, thats right, a top down view of a schematic map clicking on icons telling your team what to do. So its not "FIVE VERSUS FIVE" its "FOUR VERSUS FOUR" so dont let them lie to you. Lastly... the developer support for this game is practically NONexistent. Its been about a year since they released it. In the developers homeland they got a patch to fix issues with the weapon balance in this game. Here in the states... Nope. The gaming community here in the USA didnt get a fix for things broken in this game (which last I checked nobody likes buying anything broken) until about a year later. So over that year of having a broken game how much of the gaming community stuck around? None. So the people to play online with left a LONG time ago.
Bottom line, you buy this youll have nobody to play with but yourself. IF anybody is online playing this... good luck. They all have their little "clans" and unlike the Steel Battalion world map scenario this games multiplayer is based on regional segregation, and in-game clan animosity. Good luck with that.
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I'm a huge armored core fan and, somehow, the developers managed to mess everything up about this game. The menus are terrible, the fighting is terrible, and the story line is non-existent. The franchise took a massive step back with this game.
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