First Review

Now, to my first review.
Constructive criticism is welcome.

The game I will be reviewing is... Armoured Core: For Answers!



When I stood inside the gamestore looking at the game, I was really excited about buying it, I mean. Come on. Mechas, what's not to love?

And I had already played an Armoured Core game, that I found quite fun.
What intrigued me the most was that it was the first AC game that featured Co-Op campaign. I have not been able to try this feature out yet as I just recently recieved another controller for my Smexbox 360.

But, Single-Handedly I went out on my epic journey to play this game.

When I started it up I was absolutely stunned by the intro. Really, that is some amazing animation. It's so life like it feels like I could reach in and touch it.
Thumbs up on that! I love it.

Moving on, what annoyed me about the last game was the lack of an actual plot... You were just thrown right into the action with next to no idea of what was going on.
And, with a title like For Answers you'd guess that this would clear things up...
Well, it did. But. It left me just as dumbstruck as the first game.

The game is filled with plot holes, not to mention the end bosses. What the fuck?

I won't spoil. But if you're looking for a good story you're in for one of the worst rides of your life.

Moving onto graphics, seeing as the intro was so masterfully done.
Also, a big dissapointment.
I'm not sure, but the graphics may be even worse than that of Armoured Core 4.
It might be the fact that I'm now playing at Full HD and thus the details are revealed.
But it seems they put a lot less effort into it... The explosions are not near as awesome.
And the scenery is boring... It's way too plain. Every map is basically a straight line on some open space.
In the last game you were running around cities or fields strips or dropping down giant tubes while hundreds of defence turrets were shooting at you.
Where did all this go?



Enough bashing, on to the one part I actually enjoyed.
The gameplay.

Even though the controls were a bit uncanny you get the hang of it pretty fast.
The auto aim is immense though, so there won't be much getting the hang of.
I had terrible fun playing through this game the first time, there's just not much that mounts up to piloting a giant mecha the size of a 3 story building, flying around shooting other mechas.

And combine speed with dual Miniguns and you get unprecedented carnage. They do awesome damage at close range, it's a shame they weigh a ton and takes a tank model mecha to carry.

And as I said, the first time it was awesome. The second time... Meh, it just didn't cut it.

In short terms: Awesome but repetitive gameplay.

But... Here's what makes the game so great.
Most reviewers have said that what made the Call of Duty games great is customization...
Well then you obviously haven't played mecha games.

Oh the customizations... There are hundreds of weapons, chassies and so on.

The game restricts this alot though, since mounting twin heavy bombardment cannons to a lightweight mecha would be... Strange.
There are basically 4 types of Mechas, Heavy, Light, Medium and... Energy.

Energy you ask?

Well, there are two types of weaponry. Conventional and Energy, which both have Heavy, Light and Medium categories.
Energy weapons are laser guns and were slightly overpowered in the last games, but that has now switched over to Conventional weaponry due to the nerfing of a certain energy gun and buffing of the Minigun.


To finish it off...

Definately worth the 150kr I put into the game. But not more.
It's a decent game at best, and it barely cuts it for me.

Buy it if you find it cheap and want to waste a couple of hours of your life on pure Mecha combat.
However, if you're looking for something to absolutely blow your mind, stay away.