Web publication Popular Science popsci.com - a site dedicated to new and advanced technology, has awarded Capcom's Steel Battalion a kudos in it's 15th Annual "Best of What's New" awards.
The site states: "Capcom takes home-videogame immersion to an impressively realistic level with Steel Battalion's arcade-style controller - a wraparound panel with 40 buttons and switches, two joysticks, a slider and three floor pedals. It only works with the Battalion game for Xbox, and it costs a budget-blowing $200, but for hardcore players, there's nothing else like it".
So there you go.
Steel Battalion, for those of you who've missed it, is a game touted as a 'Realisitic Mech-war Sim', packaged with a 40-something button controller. The graphics are styled in that 'film-grain' style that was used in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, thus adding a gritty atmosphere to the already future-apocalyptic war theme.
The controller, first thought of as ridiculous and gratuitous by many, is one of the most effective and immersive pieces of games technology we've experienced, and after playing the game, we can indeed confirm that the game is reaslitic, impressive and 'mint'.
The realism has even been taken so far that if you die in your mech and don't eject your player, ALL your save-game progress is lost. Hardcore rules, bay-bee!
Steel Battallions is out in Japan now and is scheduled in Europe for March 2003.
The site states: "Capcom takes home-videogame immersion to an impressively realistic level with Steel Battalion's arcade-style controller - a wraparound panel with 40 buttons and switches, two joysticks, a slider and three floor pedals. It only works with the Battalion game for Xbox, and it costs a budget-blowing $200, but for hardcore players, there's nothing else like it".
So there you go.
Steel Battalion, for those of you who've missed it, is a game touted as a 'Realisitic Mech-war Sim', packaged with a 40-something button controller. The graphics are styled in that 'film-grain' style that was used in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, thus adding a gritty atmosphere to the already future-apocalyptic war theme.
The controller, first thought of as ridiculous and gratuitous by many, is one of the most effective and immersive pieces of games technology we've experienced, and after playing the game, we can indeed confirm that the game is reaslitic, impressive and 'mint'.
The realism has even been taken so far that if you die in your mech and don't eject your player, ALL your save-game progress is lost. Hardcore rules, bay-bee!
Steel Battallions is out in Japan now and is scheduled in Europe for March 2003.
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