Namco Bandai Release Mech-fighter Exclusively for 360

Mobile Ops: The One Year War – first screens.

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Here’s some news for fans of massive fighting robots. If you are gagging for some metal-on-metal online action exclusively on your Xbox 360, then perhaps Namco Bandai’s just-announced mech-fighter Mobile Ops: The One Year War is going to be all of your dirtiest, over-sized robotic dreams all rolled into one.

Check out the first screens, which SPOnG has just received: they make us want to clamber right up into the head of a big robot and smash the living daylights out of other Metal Mickies the world over.

The game is described as "...a next-generation mechanized shooter exclusively for the Xbox 360 …. [featuring] beautifully detailed graphics, a wide array of giant mobile suits, and intense multi-player combat to deliver an exhilarating experience in mechanized warfare."

The story – always kind of incidental to the main action in Mech-bashing - opens with the space colonists' brutal battle for independence from The Earth Federation: “Advanced ECM (Electronic Countermeasures) has rendered range sensors and communications useless, resulting in the rise of new war machines called mobile suits. These ultimate instruments of destruction, capable of metal-clashing hand-to-hand combat, completely redefine modern warfare.”

Oh, here we go! Modern warfare has been re-defined AGAIN! By huge robotic machines. Yoshi Niki, business director at Namco Bandai Games America Inc., had the following to say about the title: "With dramatic cockpit views and exquisitely detailed mobile suits, we fully expect 'Mobile Ops' to immerse gamers into a futuristic world where giant mechas loom against a war-torn horizon…. players can choose to engage enemies on foot, in vehicles or in mobile suits."

Storyline aside, Mobile Ops Team played over Xbox Live is sure to be a winner. The game also promises loads of customisation options, including beam sabres, heat hawks, and other melee weapons. From the looks of these first screens, the highly detailed HD graphics - right down to the brown rust on metal and stress damage from combat – promise to deliver a Mech-fighting, steel-on-steel orgy of pretend violence, the likes of which has never been seen before.

Comments

LUPOS 24 Apr 2006 18:12
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Tween this and chrome hounds the 360 looks to be the robot fans console of choice again(gundam coming for both)... unless like most of japan your contentet with gundam and the infamous ZOE cock bot!

Heres hoping we get another steel batalion! capcom already seems happy to give 360 its less established titles anyway.

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Patmos 24 Apr 2006 19:27
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IT's a gundam!!!! actually it looks like the EZ-8 from 8th MS team (the backpack and bumps on the knee pad dead give away). Any way these pictures are reminding me how much fun I had playing Gundam: Sidestory for the Dreamcast, lets hope the multiplayer has special objectives for the on foot characters as well as the Mobiles suits otherwise who would want to be on foot with Robots around. also a nice bump up to 24 or 32 players would be nice!
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Joji 24 Apr 2006 21:03
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Hey he's right Lupos, this is a Gundam game of the 08th MS team mold. Looks lovely and a dream for anime kind.

A fat amount of players online would also make it sweeter. I'm sure someone will end up being humourously trampled on under gundam foot.



LUPOS 24 Apr 2006 21:41
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Joji wrote:
Hey he's right Lupos, this is a Gundam game of the 08th MS team mold. Looks lovely and a dream for anime kind.


well then, and not to rag on whichever oen of my cohorts wrote this, isnt this old news? i know they anounced a gundam games for 360 and ps3 some time ago. infact both have video footage avilable. IGN even did a comparison as the first ever side by side of next gen crossplatform(ish) games.

lemme see.... no cant find it at the moment :/

anyway, i at no time doubted patmos knowledge of all things anime... the boy knows his stuff :)

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