Strategy Informer: Armored Core for Answer Review

Strategy Informer writes: "So, here we go again with From Software’s much-overlooked and often obtusely complex mech title. Last year’s Armored Core 4 scored a healthy 6 on the StrategyInformer scale, but we were left to lambast the abnormally short missions and state that this was a genre "crying out for a dose of originality". Armored Core For Answer certainly doesn’t provide the solution to either of those problems, but neither is it particularly a step backwards – making another interesting diversion for western mech warriors to consider.

For those of you new to the series, this is a game firmly routed in the Japanese obsession with giant mechanised robots battling on a near-future sparsely populated Earth. What that essentially translates to is a third-person vehicular combat title, with your custom-created lithe and agile robot sliding and boosting around some particularly bland and arid scenery and cityscapes. Beautiful it most certainly isn’t, but at least the sense of scale keeps everything in check when the action takes to the skies."