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Armored Core 2: Project Phantasma

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This is a great game. You control a robot, or armored core (AC) via third-perspective in 50 arena levels or 20 single missions. When you win a battle in the arena, you earn money which can be used to upgrade your AC. You can customize your AC with a laundry list of components: shoulder weapons, hand weapons, legs, arms, torso, motor, booster, radar, and head. The hard part is finding the right balance of equipment that your AC can handle, in terms of weight and energy usage

For example, an AC with skinny legs and small body will have extra speed, but can't handle the weight of a bazooka or large motor. Or a heavy AC with giant armored legs and carry a @#%!load of stuff, but handles like a Sherman tank. At first, it's seems a daunting task to just customizing your robot. But after playing the game for a while, you'll develop a knack for balancing out and you'll just have to worry about surviving the missions and arenas. The first 20 or so arenas consist of easy-to-destroy opponents, but once you hit #30, you'd better hope you don't run out of ammo.

AC: Project Phantasma is a game for those who enjoy third-person fighting games, giant robots ala Robotech, or anyone who likes to fiddle and customize their equipment.

ACPP was my number one fav game on PS1. I would strongly recommend this title, as it features my favorite nemesis in the series: Stinger. He doesn't like annoyances. And he likes to remind you of that. Check this one out if you have played the original.

This is a great game, and one of the best in the Armored Core series. It has a great story, unlike many games in the series, and it's the first time the arena shows up in the series. Some of the new weapons are super-powerful and over the top, and they don't even try to achieve balance. Equip the "finger" machine gun on your mech, and you'd have to be an idiot to lose. It makes for a really FUN game as opposed to a really REALISTIC game.

That said, I would hesitate to get this if you don't have the original Armored Core game. There are a variety of hidden parts (like the awesome moonlight laser blade and Karasawa laser rifle) in the original that don't appear in Project Phantasma unless you import a save file. You also can't do the "human plus" cheat without importing a save file.

You can certainly play the game and have lots of fun without a save file from the original, but as you go through the arena, you might find yourself wondering where the computer opponents got all these awesome weapons and how come they can fire back cannons on the move while you can't. You need AC1 for that, so keep it in mind.

I would say this game is the best I have ever seen the grafics are pretty good the lenth is good and the action is good .You start of with a piece of (...)for a core but you can buy weapons and armor to make it better I know you would like this game.

This game is the ultimate strategy game ! It is the funnest game i have ever played in my life !!!

This game is really cool. You can make over 300,000 combinations of robot parts and weapons. This game has no difficulty level and is already hard enough. The first Armored Core has about fifty missions.