Armored Core: For Answer

by Ubisoft

Product Features

• Fight COLOSSAL military vehicles in beautiful, expansive environments.
• Play almost any mission cooperatively with a friend online
• Influence the outcome of the war by choosing your own path and by selecting the faction(s) you will help along your epic adventure
• Custmize your mech with hundreds of parts and weapons, a killer paint job, and decals, and find the right combination of weapons and armor that will help you take down COLOSSAL enemies.
• For the first time in the series: Cut your way inside COLOSSAL armoured vehicles and destroy them from the inside out.

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001DZDU94
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 16, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,546 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #16 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Simulation
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360

Massive development and aerial pollution have been harming the planet. People recognize how little time is left until the end of the world. Thanks to their massive amount of military strength, The League corporations are in control of the planet’s infrastructure and their people are living in the air to avoid the contamination. The ORCA, forced to live on the surface of the polluted planet, organized the resistance and have amassed a formidable arsenal. As a mercenary armed with cutting edge military robot technology, choose your side and defeat the other factions by taking on GIANT Mechanical weapons.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, but still missing something, September 26, 2008

By 

Matthew Eland (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Armored Core: For Answer (Video Game)

I've seen the Armored Core series before and heard bad things about Armored Core 4, but I wanted to give Armored Core 4A a try anyway since it sounded like they made your mechs more configurable and the gameplay more fun. I can't compare to the previous ones since I haven't seen them, but my hunch is they succeeded.

The game is fun and supports a variety of play styles (missiles or guns? Heavy or light?) with a wide variety of parts. There are even quite a bit of blades for melee combat and some ECM and counter-ECM gear. Configuration is fun and a huge part of the game.

The game features many large enemies such as naval vessels and quite a few huge arms forts. These forts are gargantuan in size and really fun to fight since they give you something to unleash loads of ordinance on that doesn't dodge out of the way rapidly and can blow you away with its immense firepower.

Although this is apparently a staple of the series, I didn't like the fact that I was limited to firing only three weapons at a time (left, right, and shoulder mounted weapons). You can swap between your arm weapons and back mounted weapons, but you can't fire your arm and back weapons simultaneously. This made me feel that perhaps the people who designed these awesome robots never thought of the idea that someone might want to actually fire everything.

I guess my last mech game was MechWarrior so I'm spoiled that way. Another staple of the MechWarrior series missing in Armored Core is the first person cockpit view. It seems like it'd be very easy to add (just move the camera forward a bit and hide your mech. Maybe add a crosshair), but you're limited to a third person view.

The parts have reams and reams of statistics associated with them, so designing a mech is not exactly simple, but this added to the richness of the game for me. I would have liked to have more money to spend early on so I'd have a little more variety in the parts I could stick on my mech when going up against a tricky mission.

Bottom line: Good game, lets you blow stuff up, supports a variety of styles of play, and seems to be an improvement from what I've seen of the series. I recommend this if you're into mechs or things that go boom.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great game...but not for everyone., September 24, 2008

By 

Joshua M. Ricard "That guy you think you know... (Woodbridge, VA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Armored Core: For Answer (Video Game)

Let me say that I have been a long time fan of the Armored Core. This game is NOT for everyone. It has a very steep learning curve, due to the detail of customization for creating your mech (or Next as they are called in this game). But outside of that, this is a really fun game. It has 42 campaign missions and 30 1 on 1 Next battles. The online play is not to be taken lightly, as this is where many people who are very familiar with the game get most of their fun. So online is very competitive. Many of the campaign missions feature huge mobile enemy bases called Arms Forts which you have to battle in a medley of interesting ways, which all lead to some very fun, fast-paced, action packed battles. I highly recommend this game for anyone who is a fan of hardcore action shooters. Come on, see if you can keep up with us!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This game is awesome!, September 24, 2008

By 

Funky Winkerbean - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Armored Core: For Answer (Video Game)

I've played several of the previous AC games, and I gotta tell you that this one is fine tuned to the T. If you liked any of the previous titles at all, this will blow your mind. If you haven't played any of the previous titles, this one can also be enjoyed by itself. Though AC vets will find some really god nuggets of reference from past titles. But please, don't let it stop you if you haven't played the others...this one is great all by itself, and though huge mech fights may seem complex on the surface it is actually an easy game to get the hang of control-wise.

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