Customer Reviews

Mech Platoon

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Arriving as the GBA's opening Real-Time Strategy cartridge, Mech Platoon, offers players to man gun-blazing, primed Mech forces and effectively crush the enemy WarCraft style. Playing as one of four significantly advanced nations, the other countries have unwillingly been pulled into fierce disarray to profess who is the legitimate beneficiary of every resource found on five various planets. Each side contends to gain control over what they reckon as their own system of fertile planets. Primarily, missions involve that each globe be secured planet at a time. Once settled on land, a fortified base must be erected and the salvage of three principal resources of rock, sand, and crystal should be underway immediately. With waves of technically rich resources stockpiled, it's up to the player to immobilize and ruthlessly tear up challenging militaries. Based on the elementary, undemanding conduct of other RTS games on mining integral resources used to purchase a myriad of distinct units and establishing the indispensable building tree to unlock far more enhanced Mechs, Mech Platoon is a blast. Missions vary from defending helpless cargo, assailing specific enemy locations, and most commonly, annihilating all opposition. Veterans will undoubtedly soar through the game in lighting-fast velocity. But what singles out Mech Platoon apart from its PC counterparts is the "Recycle" feature. After creaming enemy Mechs, a Platoon commander is allowed to collect fragments of the adversary. Those parts are merged with other ones to construct a new arsenal of deadly weapons. Adding greatly to the placating level, Kemco's piece of meat also includes click-drag action. Assorted Mechs can be ushered into groups and set for different purposes, such as main assault team or home defense. Lastly enclosed in the game is an in-game tutorial for greenhorns. Equipped with serviceable information, beginners will lunge right into the engaging fray.

Graphically, Mech Platoon is brightly polished and manages to keep a brisk pace. However, there are a few moments when a nasty, mucky pixelation replaces some of the units. Other than that, the game hosts true to the standards left behind PC greats. With a touch of old-time nostalgia from antique RTS games, many strategy buffs will savor each enemy downfall not over the Orcs, the Zerg, or Soviets but for their one, great nation. Applying the fundamental "retrieve the resources then organize an army to wipe out everything" gameplay and enabling a linked four-player mode, Mech Platoon captures the spirit of a valid RTS jewel. If you loved Advance Wars, Mech Platoon is heartily recommended.

After playing the great mech warrior games for PC, I thought this would be the same. Rather than being a first person perspective of an awesome metal warrior, this game is a war simulation where you are the commander of a mech platoon. First, you start off a mission with a hand full of labor units, which must go find natural resources, collect them and then build a home base. From there you can build more labor units to create warehouses to hold surpluses of natural resources, factories, laboratories and laser defense systems. With factories you can build the warriors of the game, mech robots, tanks and so on to destroy the enemy. After the mech robots and tanks destroy enemy robots and tanks, you can bring back the parts of the destroyed robots to the laboratories to research the parts, so that you can use the technology to make new robots. The game is more cumbersome than fun, because it is in real time, you risk being attacked unannounced and you are a player, you can only do one thing at a time. The computer can do any number of things at once. There is a nice variety of mission types, such as stopping an enemy from building a railroad, escorting supply trucks, destroying enemy defenses, defending your own base and so on. The game offers nice 3D graphics, a battery save feature, and an advanced tutorial system.

First off, fans of the Mechwarrior series should note that this is not a mech combat simulator. It is real-time strategy with mechs. If you don't like Star Craft and other games of this genre, stay away.
But for RTS lovers, such as myself, Mech Platoon is a blast. Its scope is somewhat limited, having only 26 missions, three resources, and seven structures. The mechs and technoligies availible for research are numerous, however. YOu begin the campaign by selecting one of three powers to ally yourself with, namely the Trampler, the Leon, and the Minos. Each has a different starting mech and a slightly different set of missions. You then fight six missions on each home planet of your rival powers. If you selected Leon, you must fight the Trampler and Minos armies. You then fight eight missions which are common to all the campaigns against a forth power, the Barabel, on their home world of Ruin. ALong the way you collect parts from defeated enemy mechs and use them to create new mechs of your own. Collecting all the parts in the game is quite challenging. Missions are fairly difficult, with varying objectives.
All in all, an excellent game, highly recommended for RTS vetrens and newcomers alike.

I really enjoy playing this game. If you like playing starcraft, command and conquer, or other games of this type, I recommend this game to you. It has a great tutorial that explains everything in depth and it easy to follow. The game itself is incredible for a hand-held game. I love the new GBA and I can't believe the graphics it has. This game is very fun and utalizes all of the GBA's features. It is a bit complicated at first to remember how to build everything and what buildings build what, but once you get the hang of it, it's really fun. If you want to play a challenging game like starcraft on the road or at school, I recommend this game. I love it!

Mech Platoon is a very good game that provides challenging levels, but fun never less; it does not play like advance wars whereas it plays real-time. You start by choosing one of the three teams, Leon, Minos, and Trampler. In the game you don't start out with the power to build all of the units, you acquire them by gathering parts that you salvage from missions, giving a new twist to the game. The units in the game have special abilities, which give it power over enemy units, for example it your unit you control has Assault - slay, the unit has more power when fighting close combat units. There are six buildings in the game plus one secret one, each of them can build, upgrade, or defend, however the seventh one... I won't give the secret away. As the game progresses the game gets harder and harder and the enemy units get smarter. But overall this game is a worth it, I suggest you to buy it because it's great, but it is hard to find in stores.

this is a great game. It was actually the first game i got for GBA. The graphics are good and the gameplay is really fun. At first you get a little bored when you start out because you have to finish the tutorials. But as soon as you past that the game gets better. I suggest that you send 1 labor unit whenyou send your troops so you can collect parts faster. Have fun with this one!

15 hours

GREAT GAME!!!!!

Even though there is several problems with it, I really liked this game. The graphics are great, and the intro movie is amazing. I think thats the best graphics I have ever seen on GBA.

Gameplay- The computer AI could have used a lot more work. It is rather dumb, but sometimes it is hard to win just because of the sheer numbers that it has. Also, once you select a unit and you send it somewhere, it becomes unselected. That gets annoying sometimes when you miss your target. I like the grouping idea though. I thought the whole unit system was the best part of the game. Its great- you can have over 40 different units to select from. I give gameplay a 4 out of 5 stars.

Sound- The music is the worst part of the entire game. Sometimes it gets so annoying that you shut it off, then you cant hear the sound effects. I like the explosions and the laser shots, but man the music could have used some work. I've heard Gameboy Color music thats better. I give music 2 out of 5 stars.

Graphics- The graphics are great; not the greatest, but they are better than average. And I just have to give this 4.5 out of 5 because of the intro move- you'll really like it.
I give Graphics 4.5 out of 5 stars.

Replay value- Yes. After you finish the campaign mode, you can play w/ your friends or play the computer.
I give Replay value a 4 out of 5 stars.

Overall a great buy, but it is possible to overpay for it. I hope they come out with a Mech Platoon 2 and fix some of the problems it has right now.

... This game is better than I even hoped! It is a wonderful RTS game and even more amazing that it is for GBA!!! Unlike Advanced Wars (whitch is a good game) you can move anytime you want, attack anytie you want and you gather your own reasources!!! The AI is sadly easy once you master it but... ...since my pals have it... boom!! Smash!! Kaboom! Our GBAs collide battling each other! ^-^U

I expected a game that was fun and kept me entertained. I was right. The game has a little differnent campaign mode depending on the group you choose. and always had a challenge. The game was easy to understand and quick to get going so it keeps you going for hours at a time. The game has 3 groups to pick from for campaign mode. The game it self lastes to 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours if your just doing one of the groups.

This is an awesome game for strategy lovers. I would like to reccomend this as one game to buy. It's graphics are awesome and the sound is above average. Ebay.com has a good price for it though.