Published By: Phantagram
Developed By: Genki
Release Date: November 11 2002
Genre: Action/Shooting
Players: 1-2
Rating: TThis Game was in a group of couple mecha games released in 2002 and by far I think it's the best. In this game you are in old Tokyo, the former capital being moved because of air pollution and economic disasters. Old Tokyo has turned into an arena for battles beetween armored scoobees (SVs or Mechas) for the entertainment of the public. The spectators watch from above and bet on scoobees while the robots battle to the death. These Mechas Are more agile than you would think and are heavily armored for battle, other than that they are able to have the ability to turn invisible to the dislike of their foes. It's you versus nonstop scoobees, you have little chance so to start it off, are you ready to rumble.So the main description is listed above. You are a newbie in the ranks of commanders and you have just started fighting you have to buy a robot, get some guns, and make some cash.This is my favourite robot game. The details are really amazing, you can customize every last inch of your scoobee. There are lots of them and they are sorted into three diffrent categories: heavy, medium and light, each kind has it's own special body and legs diffrent from the others. You can buy guns like a gatling gun, flamethrowers or even a drill. Each weapon you can customize there weight which either increases damage and decreases bullets or you can lighten them which does the opposite. For your SV you can purchase diffrent legs, bodies, left and right arm guns and shoulder rockets.
You can buy custom paint jobs too. One of the cool things is you can buy is music. Most of it is Japanese recordings, but there are so many pages. There are about 17 songs on each page and there's about 7 or 8 pages. After you buy them you can listen to them while your fighting and rearrange them in any order you want.One of the cool custom things is your SV chip. You start off with a program chip but as you make money you can buy ones with specials and surprisingly diffrent personalities. A couple are a cat, a dog, a hawk, a rat and a rabbit I think. The hawk has a boosted lock on range as its special. You can upgrade each chip to increase it's level.There are special SVs you can unlock after certain battles that have unique paint jobs and weapons. There are four arenas each of them have a diffrent number of entrances. When you enter there is already battling going on and the robots don't all come for you. One time I even watch two really fast ones duke it out right in front of me. When you do start fighting it can get intense and fast paced, then you use o. c.(optic camouflage) and you can destroy mechs without them seeing you. After awhile of battling you'll notice your out of bullets. Well no problem a ship full of spectators come and drop some off at a dump zone to fill you up. If you're in a special arena a boss or champion will come out, if you defeat him you get score to move up in rank. Each SV you kill will give you money.Your house is sort of a manager and a place to well.......go to sleep. There are the usual save and sleep, but there are also a hanger where you can manage up to ten robots, for yourself or your friend.The multiplayer capabilities have failed me. For one thing you can only have one profile so you and your bro/sis/friend are going to have to share one. So you both get your robots from the same profile and you battle. This is can be so boring. This game would have been bigger if it was online too. Imagine, about ten SVs, battling it out in some deserted city, it could've been a battle royal, but it's not :(
The gameplay is face-paced action with a break while the new guys come out. The battles are mosly jumping,shooting over and over again but if you throw camoflauge into the mix you get big fighting hunks of metal, invisible, blowing up eachother. You could say the "handling" on the faster robots are rough for turning corner and stopping. While if your in a heavier robot, and a guys shoot you from behind, it actually takes awhile if you don't jump and turn.There are some cool things like you are actually able to climb buildings and just throw bombs at people below. Another cool thing is that each day the different arenas alternate beetween day and night with diffrent opponents.The problem with this game is only four arenas. Yeah there fun for the first sixty days (game time) but they get boring after awhile. You'll eventually know them inside and out and killing SVs there won't be as fun. Also when you first start the game it's pretty hard. Of course the difficulty goes down once you upgrade your robot but it's tuff starting out.The story line is something to smile at ,though. It's one of those things in the game that doesn't really matter. But if you don't skip any of it'll be good. It throws in comedy (good comedy actually) with fighting and out comes something really good. It's mosly of feuds between teenage commanders but it sometimes drifts off course.
The sound is good for explosions, rockets, guns and moving and moslty everything else. The game almost zones you out sometimes when your really into it. The graphics are also good for the buildings, the robots and explosions but they lack in the background and in characters The parts of the Scoobees are really detailed and some of the paintjobs you can get are really nice.This is a fun game if you want to fight something and feel like doing it techno style. You can also just see if you can beat your last score for how much money you made in the arena. This is a great game for people into fighting/ shooting in a fast paced action/robotic game.Presentation: 7- This game is really cool but it is brought down by to much in game subject based presentation. The controls and customization controls are easily learned and taught when you need it.Graphics: 9- This is one of the best x-box games I've seen. Almost everything is realistic, with good arenas. It just doesn't have everything good though.Sound 7- The sound in this game is moslty the Japanese music, and that music, although there is lots, can get boring as almost all sound alike. All the explosions, gunfire and moving around (jumping,dashing) sound really good though.Gameplay 8- The gameplay is good with lots of controls but seemingly realistic enough, it's as if your in you SV.One button controls one thing (not like splinter cell) and the movement and arenas look really good and that makes the game more real.Lasting Appeal 6- This game is fun doing story mode for the first 10-15 hours but after that or after you beat the first 60 days the game becomes drab except for the every-so-often urge to play some of it again, it could of benefited from more things to do like missions or something.37/50Writin by: cjneeds6charactersDirected by:cjneeds6charactersScript by: cjneeds6characters>So this was my first review, hope you like it.<