Videos: Steel Battalion Heavy Armor Trailers
Posted on : 16-04-2012 | By : Cacophanus | In : Videos
Hardware: Xbox 360
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What with the release of Steel Battalion Heavy Armor looming, some more trailers (shown below) have been released. Despite being adult rated, we’re beginning to get more of a Chrome Hounds vibe from this. There’s also another camouflage pack outlined too, that of the Carbon Assassin Pack. What’s more interesting though, in a nostalgic sense at least, is that the bundle pack for the game (which includes a Kinect set) will retail in Japan at 19,800 yen. That’s the exact same price tag that the original Xbox version had, though this time we won’t be having to bike over Japanese mountains in the pouring rain to pick our copy up.
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[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_U7Gf7qTJI]
[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ET0mzJqXHo]
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This game looks stupid….I have seen no point to these “mecha” I know the story and setting of the game…But these so called Mecha are just Tanks with legs….thats it..i mean..frikin Mech warrior is cooler…And its not like the legs make them more mobile or what ever…they dont..they just make them bounce when they move…I mean Slap some treads on them and you have a tank…I am not picking this game up because these “mecha” look retarded.
I think they mech designs are pretty interesting. Granted, the designs of the first game were utterly brilliant and the new ones don’t look anywhere near as good.
However the new ones look very utilitarian and quite “believable”, maybe even because of their ugliness. It’s a compact, low profile shape and complexity is low as well (looks like most of them can’t rotate their torso for instance). Really more like an assault gun with legs than a tank, or maybe more fitting like a armoured bipedal robot roach with guns : )
What I really don’t like though are the legs – they seem to be very exposed and the walk animation still looks a bit strange.