"Steel Battalion is a single-player-only, mission-based game. You'll start out each mission with a text-based briefing and a loadout process that lets you select a VT and outfit it with weapons. Once you're in your VT, you'll have to go through a start-up process. This consists of a series of button presses. One closes the cockpit, one starts the ignition. Then you must flip five switches and hit the start button when all five power bars have crossed a certain threshold. The start-up process is pretty impressive, and it does a lot for the game's atmospheric feel, though doing the exact same thing at the start of every mission causes the whole process to lose its charm after some time. Once you've started up, you can shift into gear and get moving. Most of the game's missions are pretty straightforward offensives--with only a couple of exceptions, you'll merely have to wipe out most of your enemies to advance to the next mission. The campaign is broken into two halves, and the second half is basically a remixed, harder version of the first 10 missions with a few new levels thrown in for good measure. Even without the consideration the game's price, Steel Battalion wouldn't exactly be considered a good value. "
Ewwww......replayability = Zero? :) I think that going through the startup procedure over nad over will get old...and can't think why they couldn't do some cool voice over briefings at the start of a mission? I'll wait for a few more reviews to come out for it, but I still don't think its worth the 200US :) -Gel -----Original Message----- From: Philip Arnold - ASP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Well, for us, since we're into multi-player games, having multiple people with the controllers, and a minimum of 3 XBoxes in the house (with one person brining one) Now, multi-player I can see it being a fantastic game, and having the BIG controller will be more of a buzz than anything, just because you've got all those buttons and stuff to play with <G> I know I'm buying one, although talk was of it working on future games, rather like a steering wheel, it only has limited usage... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
