Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition
Probably a bit late to be reviewing this because it’s so old and Capcom has shelved the series but whatever.
An excellent third person shooter set on an alien snow planet where you pilot huge awesome mechs and destroy hordes of giant alien bugs, mechs and snow pirate soldiers.
The graphics are still really nice considering it’s a 9 year old game and the combat has a really fun arcade feel to it and there’s a satisfying weight to your character’s movements with some quality animation too. The story is decent enough and the protagonist is played by famous South Korean actor Lee Byung-hun from the movies A bittersweet Life and The Magificent seven.
– Real player with 20.8 hrs in game
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Once you get past the incredible hurdle, nigh insurmountable as it is, there is something incredibly fun about this game.
Edit: passed mission 6
This is marvelous fun. no hand-holding, just pure gameplay and a good challenge that is not so unbeatable as to be off-putting. tip of the cap to any who make it through any single mission without dying once, but honestly, the number of resets you might encounter only strengthen your understanding of how to best go about the level - and the pacing and excitement are perfect to make you just have to play until you get that darn level right.
– Real player with 13.1 hrs in game
Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition
Lost Planet 1 is an enjoyable third person shooter which serves as a look into the past. Whilst the game was not critically acclaimed, it spawned the third person shooter/mecha hybrid trilogy of the Lost Planet series, which is still loved to this day. Whilst the game is not amazing and was not amazing by even standards of the past, playing through it again fourteen years after the initial release has been an enjoyable time, and I feel it’s worth checking out for those who have never played it before.
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game
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EDF: Front Mission Knockback Edition
For the love of god, don’t play it on hard
+fantastic mech combat
+Good edf combat most of the time
+Very long for such a small amount of content
+fantastic monster enemies
+fighting mechs as infantry is pretty fun sometimes
+finicky grapple hook! (can’t unlock it’s true potential unless you cancel your swings mid flight by hitting grapple again)
+the worst weapon in the game, the machine gun, is surprisingly good
-I heard it’s too easy on normal and based on the combat, I believe it. However, with most of the challenge coming from dodging heavily telegraphed attacks, aiming at weak points, and recovering from knockback, it is not improved in anyway other then higher enemy count and is not worth playing on hard for
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
Mecha Destruction
Mecha Destruction - (Beta) is a game where you do exactly what you’d expect - Destroy everything with a giant robot.
You can customize your Mecha to your liking and make it suit your personality or resemble your favorite characters from popular culture.
Then, simply take your Mech and wreak havoc with dynamic building destruction physics and all the fire, rubble and wreckage you could hope for!
Additionally, a simple graphics style allows for great performance and colorful personality in the world.
This game is currently in beta form and is an ongoing project. Currently, there is a single map, many different modifiable mechs and a military dispatched to stop you. Soon to come are a full campaign and story with Kaiju fights and an online Multiplayer mode.
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Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
Shogo Mobile Armor Division is a first person shooter created by Monolith and was the very first game to use the Lithtech engine. It’s a rather unique game stylistically and in terms of concept. You play as a pilot named Sanjuro who both controls a mech suit and fights on foot in a war against other mechs.
Shogo is heavily inspired by Japanese anime. To the point where I think it harms the game overall. The game looks very ugly visually and you can especially see it with the characters, who all look overly cartoony and somewhat disturbing. The story is also rather confusing and convoluted. It’s not helped by how all of the characters come off as overly obnoxious, especially the main character. I understand it’s to fit the style of the game but it feels really cringey while playing. However the soundtrack is fairly decent and does match the style of the levels pretty well.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
Awesome game, but very difficult to make it run on modern systems. You have to fix no mouse recognision, missing soundtrack, windowed mode, often crashes and abysmal performance.
You can increase fps a lot by disabling crosshair, look at Steam guides for other fixes.
Anyways the game itself is truly awesome, fun combat, pretty good level design that still hasn’t dated too bad, nice weapon variety and multiple choices you can make that may lead to different levels. Combat is heavily unbalanced, but not broken.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Wormhole City
For an early access game it does have its share of bugs and such but the atmosphere is just great. I love the setting and the feel of the game. Combat needs work and it definitely needs polishing but it is ea and in time im sure it will be a big seller.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
nice game.
first minuses:
1. camera. awfull awfull awfull camera. and as camera changes, control buttons changes directions, so its kinda hard to play.
2. sometime you have no idea what a hell is going on, untill you found trigger. i spent tens of minutes in last space battle, untill found out that you dont supposed to win…
3. short. slightly less then 3 hours and its over.
4. infinite 1 weapon in mecha…
pluses:
1. interesting story. story from 2 different sides. Acero Astra - mecha pilot from Space Force. and Marko - just a soldier in rebelling army from this particular planet. sad story. and it look so earth-grounded, its just fascinating.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Acaratus
I just finished this fine game. Mech customization is simple yet effective, allows for a large number of combinations. The story is simple yet works good enough. At some point you won’t care about it anymore. Partly because of errors that cause some dialogues to be played at wrong moments - before an other dialogue was played. Showing clear signs of chronological continuity errors. Also, chose save and exit option every couple of battles and after rebuilding any of your mechs as the autosaves are rare and the game crashed on me twice.
– Real player with 41.7 hrs in game
Acaratus is a turn-based strategy filled with rpg elements. I noticed Acaratus a year ago, it looked good, but sadly I forgot to follow it’s development. As soon as I saw it on steam I had to buy it and it’s my new favourite game!
Pros:
+So much customisation! Modify body, legs, weapons and various other accessories on your mechs.
+Level up your main character and choose helpful perks.
+Combat is action point based on a grid, it’s simple, but entertaining and satisfying.
+Interesting story.
+Graphics are good.
– Real player with 21.3 hrs in game
Pizza Titan Ultra
Pizza Titan Ultra Review
Pizza Titan Ultra or the Crazy Taxi/Jet Set Radio/Blast Corps of mech based pizza delivery games (I have no idea what that means tbh with you) is a game, (brilliant observation there) where you are trying to save the world or you’re just meet some random person’s odd requests while delivering Pizza or are just trying to deliver as much pizza & get as much money as possible under a time limit.
Gameplay & Level Design
Gameplay is simple but addictive & a tun of fun!
All there really is to it is a simple combat system of 3 different punch maneuvers, a stomp maneuver, a slide kick, a drop kick, & a special ability.
– Real player with 78.6 hrs in game
A VERY long awaited review for this game, but here goes nothing. It’s basically if Crazy Taxi and the robot from Megas XLR had a kid and added pizza.
The gameplay is simple enough to enjoy, but not too simple to where it’s boring. You deliver pizzas in a giant mech, which increases your amount of time for you to be able to deliver more pizzas and complete other objectives in the process. There are also yellow clock items that can also increase your time (as opposed to just delivering pizzas) and money spread around the map that can be used to customize your mech in the garage with new parts and colors. Now you might be asking something along the lines of “what’s the kicker here?” Well, being a giant robot pizza delivery service still has competition that is preventing you from achieving your goals. There are enemies that will attempt to prevent you from completing your objectives, but thankfully you’re able to fight back with a variety of different abilities; some of which you unlock in the game through buying customizations for your mech. Your missions will also vary from destroying everything in your path (while delivering pizza) to avoiding destroying anything (also while delivering pizza) to simply just delivering a certain number of pizzas. Each section has a challenge that you can attempt to complete, but it’s not mandatory for you to complete them.
– Real player with 9.9 hrs in game
Space Overlords
Space Overlords is a third person top down brawler where you control a giant robot thing and run around a very, very small planet smashing the buildings on it and avoiding trees which are apparently bad for you.
The gameplay is very dry, smashing buildings gets boring quickly. Graphics are ok but not remarkable… at least they’re not pixel graphics. $8 is way too much to pay for something this boring.
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
Space Overlords by 12 Hit Combo is a hack and slash type of game that does not quite manages to deliver the product desires. At first glance, Space Overlords seems decent at the beginning when you have a choice of picking overlords but unfortunately deals with a significant amount of issues. For instance, the story starts nicely but turns out to be quite generic and simple, followed by the repetitive gameplay in terms of destroying cities. Another issue I noticed was the lack of description in terms of buffs received. It usually resumes to one word which essentially you have to press and essentially guess what happens next. Another issue was the difference between overlords which is supposed to be based on stats but personally I would have never guessed due to the fact that each class seems to be the same. The game in a nut shell is kill all the buildings and destroy the attacking towers.
– Real player with 7.7 hrs in game
Drone: Remote Tactical Warfare
It is a great pure strategy game, where you have to manage a dron, and infiltrate on enemy bases, perform repair operations, hacking, use of mines, … Obtaining thus, the objectives proposed, avoiding being fried by the bullets. It has variety of missions, the first missions are important, because they are designed to familiarize you with the controls, and thus to use in more advanced missions all the available resources, that will make the enemy soldiers finish dead or retire dead of fear.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Interplanetary Hunter
Arcadey Mech fighter where you have to defeat numerous enemies and bosses to progress to the next map. You can upgrade and change weapons, defenses etc. Controllers control one arm each so you can shoot in different directions, HMD controls where you look and direction you travel. Touch pad movement, I’ve played a lot worse.
The missiles need work as they look shit but all the other weapons seem ok.
Not to bad overall, the price seems ok for what it is although I received in a bundle and would suggest you buy in bundle or on sale. If you’re into mech fighters and want to fight from a cockpit then this is the better of the two I have played in VR.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game