Description Steel Battalion is an exciting battle-mech simulator that uses the most elaborate controller interface ever created. Take a seat inside the cockpit of a mechanized VT (Vertical Tank) and enter into futuristic military warfare, where you pilot 20 different mechs in a multinational task force operation in an effort to over throw the government. Included with the game is an exclusive 40-button controller to completely maximize the gaming experience, making your feel as if you are actually piloting a mechanized Vertical Tank!
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Rating Reviewed by: Brian(Unregistered User)
Review Date January 29, 2003
Overall Rating 4 of 5
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Price Paid:
$200.00
Summary: This game is simply amazing. I opened the box that it comes and in and was amazed. The box actually looks as if its army rations, 100 years in the future. I was very frusturated with this game when I first played it. I was pissed that I couldn't control it as well as i wanted to.I went to bed pissed off and I woke up and played it.The game was easy to control and fun.Real fun.Very fun.my friends and I have so much fun with this game.The difficulty is great, challenging,yet doable. There are hardly any flaw to this game.The only one thing that I don't like is the price tag.It's a bruiser as we all know but I'm not sure if you want to lay down $200 for this.Rent it first.Play it alot.As I said I didn't like it at all at first.If you like it, buy it.
Summary: If the point of making a game is to immerse you ... to make you feel like you are doing what your performing onscreen and make it fun ... then this is the game of the year my friends ... never thought I would have this much fun piloting these mechs ... I actually never thought I would actually have this game either ... goes to show how much I know ...
Summary: This post is for those folks who are looking for an honest unbias opinion on Steel Battalion as I was B4 I bought it, unfortunatly I never found one. After reading the other posts listed here on this site concerning this game, I'm not sure I have the same title or not??? Anyway I bought this Steel Battalion after reading all these fantastic reviews about the game and I talked to folks who actually played it and they loved it also. However...here it comes, I was most displeased by the poor graphics of the game. The graphics are poor, I mean LAME. Bridges pop up a section at a time as you cross it and the targeting system will lock on a bad guy that is on the other side of a hill and because the graphics are sooo bad, you can't tell there's nobody there, so meanwhile you unload your weapons into the side of a hill,(and from not far away) I mean it's terrible! I've read other reviews calling this the best looking game on Xbox. Oh Man! Are they jokeing? Come on, this is a seriously lacking game in the graphics department. I don't see how anybody, I mean ANYBODY could accuse this game of having superior graphics. The controller is made by Sammy Corp. Make up your own mind about that. Mine is about 10 hours old and the left joystick is loose and floopy while the right is tight as it should be. A possible problem in the future? The gear shift lever is also a bit on the flimsy side as well. I don't see how these things are supposed to withstand the constant use they will be subjected to. Every time you start the VT you must use 5 toggle switches, these aren't the best quality either and their going to get alot of use. I'm sorry, I just don't see this thing holding up to the constant use that a video game controller goes thru! The controller has no vibration either. One thing I did do B4 I bought this was make sure they had a return policy....I'm going to use it! Stay away from this one folks!
Summary: Worlds most extreme mech simulator. Casual observers might assume my use of the word "extreme" refers to Steel Battalion's 40 button controller(w/attending foot pedals) and intimidating $200+ price tag.(time to heap some more abuse on my discover card methinks) But casual observers would be wrong as they almost always are.(b*stards) Extreme refers to Capcom's cruelly innovative save system which punishes death with a brazen clearing of your mission saves from the XBOX hard drive. Did you eject in time...good...but your mech is still destroyed...gotta buy a new one...and money doesn't grow on trees kiddies. Ramping up your best mechs in the later missions, will inspire a short prayer before starting that ignition sequence. This is not a game for the faint of heart.(which of course I am....but I love Steel Battalion and I keep my pills close)
Summary: Don't listen to IGN's review, and defiantly don't listen to Gamespot's review. This game is amazing, and if they had only worked on the presentation between the release of the Japanese version in August and the American release now, it could have been game of the year. The flaws that really hurt it are mostly in the presentation. The intro is lacking, the cut scenes in-between levels are awful (especially the first one) when compared to the rest of the game. When you are in the cockpit there is no more real mech experience available. However, when not in your mech it rips you out of the experience with poor presentation. If instead Capcom had focused on making an in-depth training level or levels instead of just throwing you into the mech without giving us real motivation for doing so besides the fact that playing the game is amazing fun (and it is), then it could have been a true masterpiece. As it is, it leave me with the impression of what it could have truly been. Here is to Tekki 2 Online (go to petitionsonline.com and fill out the petition for Capcom making it, and making it online.)
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