The mech experience i've been waiting for.
I've owned a couple of armored core games in the past and they could not keep my interest for longer than 2 days. Finally.... "Armored Core: For Answer" caught my attention due to its fast paste gameplay. It's the adrenaline rush experience I had been waiting for so long. Glad I bought it because I was on the fence before. This is the best Armored Core. It's not only a game about itself and the missions, but it can make you feel like you can relate to it. I was dodging spammage missiles and heavy burst across the lanscape like what you would see from the anime movies. This would be like the grand tourismo for mechs. Why because this game is VERY deep with the tune up of your favorite mech. You get to paint, purchase weapons, body parts, etc and adjust/balance their energy for stability. There's some decision in what weapons to carry with you on the mission. I think that's what makes it challenging. Your eyes would roll back if you see all these options to tweak your mech. But don't let it intimidate you. Just keep it simple if you like. I was hoping they at least put in some human pilots to have an interesting story. I have played it for 1 month now and still going :). Such a satisfying game.
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Continue reading below if you're experiencing major slowdown and bad framerates for mission "defeat spirit of motherwill" from chapter 1. The mothership in this mission is humongous and tons of spammage missiles all over the place. I have a 60gb PS3 from launch. When you first get this game... i repeat DO NOT install the amored core 1.35 update. if you see it popping up asking to update then hit the O button to cancel. It will still let you play the game. Trust me it caused noticeable bad framerate to the point where it's almost impossible to play the mission. I removed this update by going to XMB menu > Game > Game data utility > deleted Armored Core (about 33mb size). Also there's really no need to install (3gb !!!) this game to your HDD because it only helps a bit with the loading but doesn't fix framerates issue. Please past it along to others if they're experiencing the same problem on their ps3. Someone should really report it to Ubisoft.