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Jim Cordeira

Updated
9/11/2008

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Platform: PlayStation 3
Release: September 2008
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: From Software
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Players: 1 - 8
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Several new multiplayer shots of From Software's latest mech-action game.


Massive development and aerial pollution have been harming the planet. People recognize how little time is left until the end of the world. Thanks to their massive amount of military strength, The League corporations are in control of the planet's infrastructure and their people are living in the air to avoid the contamination. The ORCA, forced to live on the surface of the polluted planet, organized the resistance and have amassed a formidable arsenal. As a mercenary armed with cutting edge military robot technology, choose your side and defeat the other factions by taking on GIANT Mechanical weapons.
  • Fight COLOSSAL military vehicles in beautiful, expansive environments.
  • Awesome visuals immerse you in futuristic battlefields.
  • Play almost any mission cooperatively with a friend online.
  • Influence the outcome of the war by choosing your own path and by selecting the faction(s) you will help along your epic adventure.

Key Features:

  • For the first time in the series: Cut your way inside COLOSSAL armoured vehicles and destroy them from the inside out.
    • Identify and exploit each seemingly indestructible GIANT mobile battle station's weakness to defeat them.
    • Face 10 uniquely designed types of GIANT mobile battle stations and engage tens different other kinds of mech in high velocity combats.
  • Customize your mech with hundreds of parts and weapons, a killer paint job, and decals, and find the right combination of weapons and armor that will help you take down COLOSSAL enemies.
    • With more than 130 new parts, enhance your mech to take on increasingly deadlier GIANT mobile battle stations.
    • Create the perfect mech design to take down a powerful enemy and share it with your friends online.
  • Interact with the environment beyond everything ever experienced in mech combat games.
    • Experience high velocity plain day light combat or low visibility night battles as changing weather and time modifies the atmosphere of more than 40 battlefields including snow field, desert, ocean, underground and city.
    • Take on COLOSSAL enemies in fully destructible environments that bring even more realism and sensation to your epic battles.
  • Cooperate with a friend in a seamless multiplayer mode or face more friends in versus modes.
    • Cooperate online with a friend in more than 30 missions and elaborate tactics to take on the deadliest and most gigantic weapons created by mankind.
    • Face up to 7 players online or LAN in more than 80 different battlefields including new rules such as Destroy-a-leader battle, destroy-all-of-them battle,…
    • Engage one of your friends in split-screen head-to-head combat.
  • Switch factions and make decisions that change both the storyline and your combat experience.
    • Choose your side among different factions including The League, The ORCA and the independent city states, each one having their own sets of GIANT mobile battle stations, mechs and characteristics, allowing for unique battle experiences.
    • Make decisions all along your adventures that will result in one of 3 different possible endings to the war.
  • 2 different control schemes accommodate both beginners and veteran players.
    • If you are beginner, new intuitive controls will allow you to skilfully operate your mech in no time.
    • If you are a veteran player, enjoy the full range of controls available in previous Armored Core instalments.




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