Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Battle Assault

by Bandai

Product Features

• 12 playable mobile suits from the TV series.
• 7 game play modes including 2 player VS mode Link up to 4 Game Boy Advance systems using a Game Boy Advance Game Link Cable (sold separately) for head to head action.
• A difficulty level for all players: choose automatic or manual mode, and then adjust armor, HP and energy gauges to maximize the challenge!

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: B0001WN0MW
• Item Weight: 1.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: August 6, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,956 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

In year 70 of the Cosmic Era, advanced weapons called mobile suits have given the Zaft space colonists the upper hand in their ceaseless war with the Earth Alliance. In Gundam Seed: Battle Assault, the Naturals on Earth develop their own battle suits and try to turn the war's tide.

Features:

• Play as your favorite characters from the television series
• Seven different game modes
• Two players can play through the Game Boy Advance game link cable
• Unlockable extras

For this fighting game, you get behind the controls of the mobile suits and fight against characters from the show. The suits are equipped with two weapons and thrusters to help you get vertical. Much like other fighters, you can perform combos that inflict more damage on your opponent. With weapons combos, the results can be devastating.

Once you pick which character you wish to play as, you may adjust your suit's specifications. Add or take away from your thrusters, suit armor, or hit points.

Game modes include a sketchy story mode in which you must defeat one fighter after another and time-based challenges. In survival mode, defeat as many opponents as you can before your energy runs out. In vs. mode, hook up another GBA through the Game Boy Advance link cable and fight a friend.

Although many options are available to you during battle, it's easy to control the well-designed fighters. It's the winning that's the hard part.

Bottom line: All fighting all the time. Weapons give the game more options over the standard hand-to-hand fighting game.

Product Description

Gundam Seed: Battle Assault launches the continued saga of the Gundam world. Battle for supremacy as you pilot a tremendous robotic warsuit!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Good game., October 29, 2009

By 

SegaGuy217 (ILLINOIS) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Battle Assault (Video Game)

If you like 2D fighting games then this is easy to recommend whether you are a fan of the Gundam Seed anime series or not. It has enough modes to stay busy for a decent length of time. The mobile suits to me look pretty good for being a GBA game. The backgrounds look pretty good as well.

As far as gameplay goes this is pure fan service with an excellent dose of fun. The menus are basic but easy to navigate. Overall I recommend this game to anyone who is looking for a good GBA game. And if you have a link cable you can play your friends ( not sure if they have to have a cartridge or not).

4.0 out of 5 stars Gundam Seed Battle Assault game review, June 15, 2009

By 

H. Jackson - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Battle Assault (Video Game)

I have always enjoyed watching the Gundam SEED anime and was curious about the game. It is a fun game to play, you play different pilots from either side, and then you get a password for each mobile suit you use. The only downside is that the game doesn't save your progress, you have to type in each password each time you play in order to open up new suits and characters. So far I have unlocked Rau Le Creuset. For each one character gained you have had to defeat everyone using two different characters. I unlocked Rau by playing Kira Yamato in Strike and Athrun Zala in the Aegis. When your playing a character you battle all of the characters that you can play or receive throughout the game, like Kira Yamato in Freedom, and Athrun Zala in Justice (which sometimes are suprisingly easy to beat). Although it appears that there are some suprise characters since there more than just the three slots for Rau Le Creuset and his mobile suit (a GOUF, i think),Kira Yamato in Freedom, and Athrun Zala in Justice.

3.0 out of 5 stars You Reap What You Sow, April 12, 2008

By 

J. Sherman "The Critic" (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Battle Assault (Video Game)

In yet another move to cash in on "Gundam SEED," the last Gundam show to air on American TV, Bandai released a 2D fighting game for the Game Boy Advance. "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Battle Assault" is the third installment in the "Battle Assault" game series (and the first to feature robotic mecha from only one show). You start off choosing one of 12 Gundam mobile suits to fight with, 4 of which are unlockable. Of course you can access these and other goodies either by beating the game several times or entering cheat codes in the game's "Password" section. But without a save feature, get really to enter those codes over and over if you want to, say, select your favorite fighter.

Each fighting mech has its own assortment of special attacks (which are a pain to do with the GBA's controls), a "Berserker" mode (which raises the power of your attacks), and super attacks (which can only be performed in Berserker mode, once). Each mech also has "Phase Shift" armor that cushions the blows of projectile and physical attacks but not from beam attacks. Keep this in mind and you'll come up with the one strategy you need to beat the whole game. Because somebody finally realized the problem with playing fighting games on the GBA, you can set the controls from manual to automatic, the latter of which simplifies gameplay dramatically by reducing all attacks to a single direction on the D-pad and an attack button. You also have the option of increasing the strength of your fighter while lowering other attributes.

"SEED" also includes several game modes which are of standard fare in fighting games and don't offer anything memorable. Normal (Story) Mode, for example, simply rehashes the story from the TV series. So after beating the whole roster your character will either get an upgraded mech, disappear for no reason, or get killed by the robot you've just beaten seconds ago.

Of course, devoted Gundam fans are likely to hit the Net or a retail store to get this game despite what this review says. I, a devoted Gundam fan myself, had already sold my copy for pocket money.

This game is rated T for Teen: Violence, Adult Language.