very nice game, good replay value. smashin and bashin the drone Zaku's with your favotire character while going....
As with most of the reviews from gamespot, they got it all wrong (AGAIN! this is like 18 outa 34 GS reveiws that I have read where the creator had seemed to play the game without understanding what it was about.)
with that all said, review time.
Main Score: 9.5
Score Breakdown:
Gameplay: 9.0 (controls are nice, if you know how to use them correctly BUT the space missions are a little bit trickier then usual)
Storyline: 3.4 (but a storyline is not really that important in this kind of game anyway xD)
Graphics: 4.9 (low standard, even for a ps2 game.)
Music: 6.8 (some nice music in there but could have been better)
Replay Value: 10.0 (TONS of replay value, this game has replay value coming out its ***. You can play Official mode characters in original mode, and once you clear the original mode chars they can use different MS's (same goes for Official mode chars).
Full Review:
Well, we all know the storyline sucks to some degree, but everything else makes up for that.
Right now, if I wer to have to say, Domon is the strongest character, I was able to take on 3 MS's at once with him (Puru, Amero, sorccio).
I have not used everyone yet, or even one char on ever MS but so far this game is kickass.
Basically there are two plot lines in this game:
Original Mode:
A giant planet (suspected to be a MS) comes outa no where and is trying to crash into Earth.
You have to fight your enemies to stop the planet. Let me just say this now, some forms of Musha Gundam (basically the force driving the planet to Earth) are DEAD hard to beat.
Then there is Official Mode:
You are a member of the Earth Resistance fighting against the Principality of Zeon (or vise versa).
I have only cleared one char in official mode so im not privy to what the actual goals and such are (except for that it is a little harder at times then original mode.)
The controls are perfect, you have to learn to use l1 to turn the camera to the direction you are facing, but other then that, its pure blister making perfection.
So far the hardest MS to control has been Master Asia, his moves are kinda weird, but once you get into a groove with him, he can kill of insanely lard numbers of Zaku’s.
Also, unless you have hours (literally, each mission takes about 15+ mins to finish) of time, dont except to breeze through this game xD.
The longest one I have been on so far has been about 45 minutes long.
In each mission there are at least 400 non-manned drones and anywhere from 4 to 12 Aces (some recycled [aka you beat them, they retreat then come back to the battle at a later time]).
Really, as long as the enemy has a field, there will be drones spawned. So you could, if you chose too, just farm those then, back off em, let the field pop regenerate and farm it again for levels.
Some Aces are a hell of a lot harder then others, Amero is by far the hardest normal battle Ace that you will fight.
But for final battle Aces, Master Aisa takes the cake there (play through Domon’s missions and you will see what I mean).
Also, during battles, things you do accomplish and don’t accomplish effect your friendly Aces.
Like Puru for example, if you destroy Juda’s MS before she reaches him in certain missions, she will stay on your team. If not, she becomes an enemy and later returns to your side if you defeat her.
Some of the things about some of these missions that tick me off are that on some, they want you to go to the other side of the mission field to fight an enemy ACE, to have your main base over run by the time you get to it and you have to get back to the main base, kill off the drones and aces or else lose lol.
the things that i am dissapointed about with this game is lack of characters (no Duo, Quatro, or Wu-fei, or G Gundam non-primary chars (cant remember the names right now xD havent watched it in like 4 years o.O) and I thought there should be more enemies (not joking).
A few more sp mve would have been nice, or more effective special moves (Master Aisa's flying downward kick just sucks usually, unless you time it perfect).
A few parting statistics for thought:
My high sorces:
Current highest enemy kill total: 1385
Enemy Ace Total: 8
Highest Char level: 27 (Heero/Amero)
Highest MS level: 10 (Wing Zero/Epyon/Master Gundam/Gundam)
Overall, this game is a must have!`