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XboxAddict: Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor Review

XboxAddict: The original Steel Battalion on the first Xbox remains to this day one of the most hardcore and unique gaming experiences I’ve ever had. For those that never played the original, it cost around $200 because it came with a monstrous custom controller designed specifically for that game and only that game. It had two joysticks, foot pedals, and about forty or so buttons, making for a truly unique mech experience if you had the cash and table space to set it up on. There really was nothing else quite like it, and when Capcom announced that it was going to make a return I was more than excited, as I got my wallet ready to plunk down another hundred or so to see what the sequel would be like on Xbox 360.

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christheredhead4289d ago

At first I thought the score said 100/100.

Kinect is just to inaccurate for this type of game. You have to be ridiculously specific for what action you're taking and the game has a hard time recognizing that.

They should update that awesome controller and release the game for other platforms as well.

Shadonic4289d ago

"You have to be ridiculously specific for what action you're taking and the game has a hard time recognizing that" True but that dosent happen all the time when i first tried the demo it worked fairly well but as i studied gameplay videos of people who actually fallowed the guidelines and had enough space to play the game almost anywhere like myself i actually had a great experience with the demo. If i had the money i would rent this. I dont think the kinect inaccurate i mean if ghost recon can implement shooting and someone whose good with the kinect can beat their own controller shooting time then its not that inaccurate. I believe most of the impact is coming from the players play space and the player themselves i mean even in an interview with the guy who did the preview he mentioned how it worked for him and how they had the space setup perfectly so something pertaining to withe how the person played or the play space was interfering which is why i dont trust kotaku kinect game reviews because they play kinect games as if there constrained 3D models.

christheredhead4289d ago

Yah, my experience with the demo was abysmal at best. I was sitting still, not moving, and it still kept zooming in and pushing buttons for no reason. I guess I dont have the correct spacing for the game. I really don't know. The game worked correctly in fractions, but there was no way I could even complete the demo without complete frustration.

Truthfully though, they should have offered the controller option on the side. I mean, I know they were pushing the whole Kinect idea, but it just doesn't work like it should for everyone. Having to have exact perfect ratios of space, lighting, dimensions and so on means different outcomes. The results get mixed from person to person.

It would have been awesome to purchase a really cool, 50 button Steel Battalion controller and have a blast. I still dont get why that's not even an option with this title. That's what made the first one so awesome and this one so mediocre.

FinalomegaS4289d ago

Almost lowered than superman64....

Ouch

Skateboard4289d ago

Capcom gives X-box the hook ups.

CommonCent4289d ago

The first one required a controller that only worked with it, Heavy Armor requires a controller that barely works for anything. I can understand the score.

Shadonic4289d ago

works on everything for me :D

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Why From Software's worst game is worth learning from

Eurogamer:

"Heavy Armor might be the perfect Kinect game, or at least, the most honest, because it reveals how interesting life can be when technology gets in your way. Green-lighted way back when Kinect was known as Project Natal, the game posits a near-future in which a silicon-guzzling microbe has devoured every computer on the planet, setting back the science of combat to roundabouts the close of the first world war. Deprived of GPS, drones and other decadent trappings of 21st century warfare, the Earth's nations are obliged to duke it out in gas-powered mechs or "vertical tanks" that handle as elegantly as elephants in high heels."

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Relientk773183d ago

Of course it is. You have to learn from your mistakes

Godmars2903183d ago

And the reason that it was one of From Soft's worst games is that it was tied to poor game accessory.

plmkoh3183d ago

TBH the game looked interesting on it's debut.

_-EDMIX-_3183d ago

Not something I want to remember that existed.

audiocafe3183d ago

As much as I like From's Souls games, I'm hoping they release another Armored Core at some point.

...just had to throw that out there

TheColbertinator3183d ago

Armored Core or Tenchu would be cool with me

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Ignore death threats

It always seems like the video game industry can’t go a single week without handling death threats of some sort. At this point, they almost come with the territory for game developers, critics, or anyone else a select few people don’t like. However, the only way a person who receives death threats can combat them is by doing absolutely nothing.

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Top Tuesday - The 10 worst video games ever.

MWEB GameZone writes: "The things that you love the most, are also the things that can hurt you the most. Which is just an unnecessarily complicated way of saying that there are really, really bad video games out there and they'll make you feel bad.

We've compiled a list of these aberrations so that you don't ever have to play them yourself."

plut0nash3580d ago

Star Trek was pretty shocking.

3-4-53580d ago

How did that Custer game get approved ?

Different times I guess.

plut0nash3580d ago

Bills needed to be paid I guess.

CongoKyle3580d ago

I really thought the picture of the horse was a real game. Not even sure why I'm disappointed it isn't ;/ Also, Survivor? What's the real aim of the game? Survive the opening credits?

HanCilliers3579d ago

What has been seen cannot be unseen

Sillicur3580d ago

I can still remember the dissapointment i felt from Diakatana

modesign3580d ago

duke nukem forever should of made the list, a game 10yrs in developement and ended up looking like a 2000 title.

HanCilliers3579d ago

I'm with you on the Duke that Fell from His Throne

Sillicur3579d ago

Duke nukem forever is to bad to be on any list :( So dissapointed !

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