Armored Core 4 officially announced for Xbox 360 and PS3
Gaming Age has the story that AC4 has gotten it's official announcement for all next-gen (sorry, no "new gen") platforms:
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SEGA of America, Inc. today announced that it will publish Armored Core 4, the newest addition to FromSoftware's mech-based combat franchise, Armored Core. From the developers of the acclaimed title Chromehounds, Armored Core 4 is scheduled for release on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, in spring 2007.
But Shane said...
Last edited by bapenguin; 09-21-2006 at 06:29 PM..
I last played the arena expansion to the second game. I loved the building part. Has combat gameplay got any better/quicker?
All of the Armored Core games are at heart, basically the same game.
The chief difference is that the later you go, the more parts are available, the better the graphics look, and the more boring the excuse for singleplayer.
I really don't think Chromehounds is going anywhere. A lot of people, myself included, prefer slow paced non-anime mech sims, which the AC series is not. I was under the impression that Chromehounds was created by FROM specifically for people like me who just couldn't get into the anime mecha games.
Chromehounds is definitly NOT eastern mecha anime. Generally speaking the japanese like do not like the western style of mecha--but it is definitly not vice-versa.
those would be pretty old-school but are pretty bad ass. Go look at some of the origional "Battletech" art...they look retardedly bad carbon copies of macross mecha.
The only good eastern style mecha game that is good (which happens to be excellent) are the Zone of Enders games. And perhapse the origional Virtual On...
But yes, I've recently been rediscovering the awsomeness of Mechwarrior Mercs and the vaunghted Mechcommander games. One of the reasons I loved the origional Heavy Gear so much that like Armored Core it had elements of both eastern and western mecha blended in a simulator type game.
I don't know, after all the other Armored Core games, unless they make the missions more interesting or add a really good online mode I'll be sticking with Chromehounds. Armored Core is in need of some serious revamping.
But yes, I've recently been rediscovering the awsomeness of Mechwarrior Mercs and the vaunghted Mechcommander games.
Do you know of a way to get Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries running on XP? I found a patch that makes MechWarrior 2: 31st Century combat run on XP, but AFAIK there aren't patches for the other games in the series.
