Armored Core games....

I've never played any Armored Core games before and I was thinking of getting one. However there are quite a few titles on the PS2 and I wanted to know which was the best in terms of customizability and single player mode. Thanks in advance

You should start at the beginning with the ps1 games. Mech customizing and single player is what they were all made for. Do any of them have online support yet? I dont remember and if any of them do it was only the last couple. I liked the missions but I hate that you have to pay for ammo which means everyone just uses energy based weapons. Ammo guns and missles/rockets are only good in the arena where they are free lol. Another thing I dont like about the series is that the computer cheats and can stay locked onto you no matter what and knows exactly how to move in order to keep you in his sights.

You should start at the beginning with the ps1 games. Mech customizing and single player is what they were all made for. Do any of them have online support yet? I dont remember and if any of them do it was only the last couple. I liked the missions but I hate that you have to pay for ammo which means everyone just uses energy based weapons. Ammo guns and missles/rockets are only good in the arena where they are free lol. Another thing I dont like about the series is that the computer cheats and can stay locked onto you no matter what and knows exactly how to move in order to keep you in his sights.

Its extremely annoying in mech vs mech fights either during a mission or in the arena. Also I feel like fat mechs are not balanced very well against skinny mechs. Fat mechs should have like 2-3 times the amount of armor they get now just to counter the skinny mechs mobility. The story lines in every single one of the games sucks bad lol.

Armored Core did give me some really cool memories though. The old ones that you could use a link cable with two play the game on two tv's with two playstations and both people agree not to use heads with radar or radar accessories. Thats some awesome crap right there. One or two of the later ones also. I think they all do instant replays of the entire battles but my favorite was the AC with the versus map that had the floating islands. That was a freaking awesome stage and had wicked replays lol.

One of the things that are different about each one are the special abilities you can unlock and how good overboosting works. And the newer ones have some crappier overboosting mechanics and not so great special abilities. But they have the biggest array of parts and stuff so.....

I didnt play that much of Silent Line and I never got to play Last Raven so betwen 2 and 3 I would have to go with 2. But I think you should go back to the beginning._AbBaNdOn

Thank you very much sir, Armored Core 2 was one of the ones that came to mind. I'll probably get Armored Core 2: Another Age if I manage to find it somewhere