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Armored Core: For Answer | 
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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $54.91
You Save: $5.08 (8%)
New (21) Used (2) from $49.97
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 2317
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: simulation_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 52462
Model: 52462
UPC: 008888524625
EAN: 0008888524625
ASIN: B001DZDU94
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED; SHIPS THE SAME DAY
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| Features:
| • | Fight COLOSSAL military vehicles in beautiful, expansive environments. | | • | 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 | | • | Custmize 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. | | • | For the first time in the series: Cut your way inside COLOSSAL armoured vehicles and destroy them from the inside out. |
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Product Description
Go to war with your very own customized mecha and take on opponents that are kilometers in size. Armored Core: For Answer is a high-speed mecha action game that combines political and economic strife with all-out warfare. To bring you the most exhilarating gaming experience and to imprint the grand tragedy of war into your hearts, it uses the full graphical and audio capacity of third generation consoles. Decades after nations disintegrated, the world is turned into a massive ruin, companies that rule the world with their economic power built their sanctuary in the only unpolluted realm: the skies. But even this paradise falls as the war escalates on Earth beneath it, and no one is able to escape from the turmoil.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fun, but still missing something September 27, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I've seen the Armored Core series before and heard bad things about Armored Core 4, but I wanted to give Armored Core 4A a try anyway since it sounded like they made your mechs more configurable and the gameplay more fun. I can't compare to the previous ones since I haven't seen them, but my hunch is they succeeded.
The game is fun and supports a variety of play styles (missiles or guns? Heavy or light?) with a wide variety of parts. There are even quite a bit of blades for melee combat and some ECM and counter-ECM gear. Configuration is fun and a huge part of the game.
The game features many large enemies such as naval vessels and quite a few huge arms forts. These forts are gargantuan in size and really fun to fight since they give you something to unleash loads of ordinance on that doesn't dodge out of the way rapidly and can blow you away with its immense firepower.
Although this is apparently a staple of the series, I didn't like the fact that I was limited to firing only three weapons at a time (left, right, and shoulder mounted weapons). You can swap between your arm weapons and back mounted weapons, but you can't fire your arm and back weapons simultaneously. This made me feel that perhaps the people who designed these awesome robots never thought of the idea that someone might want to actually fire everything.
I guess my last mech game was MechWarrior so I'm spoiled that way. Another staple of the MechWarrior series missing in Armored Core is the first person cockpit view. It seems like it'd be very easy to add (just move the camera forward a bit and hide your mech. Maybe add a crosshair), but you're limited to a third person view.
The parts have reams and reams of statistics associated with them, so designing a mech is not exactly simple, but this added to the richness of the game for me. I would have liked to have more money to spend early on so I'd have a little more variety in the parts I could stick on my mech when going up against a tricky mission.
Bottom line: Good game, lets you blow stuff up, supports a variety of styles of play, and seems to be an improvement from what I've seen of the series. I recommend this if you're into mechs or things that go boom.
Great game...but not for everyone. September 25, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Let me say that I have been a long time fan of the Armored Core. This game is NOT for everyone. It has a very steep learning curve, due to the detail of customization for creating your mech (or Next as they are called in this game). But outside of that, this is a really fun game. It has 42 campaign missions and 30 1 on 1 Next battles. The online play is not to be taken lightly, as this is where many people who are very familiar with the game get most of their fun. So online is very competitive. Many of the campaign missions feature huge mobile enemy bases called Arms Forts which you have to battle in a medley of interesting ways, which all lead to some very fun, fast-paced, action packed battles. I highly recommend this game for anyone who is a fan of hardcore action shooters. Come on, see if you can keep up with us!
 This game is awesome! September 24, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've played several of the previous AC games, and I gotta tell you that this one is fine tuned to the T. If you liked any of the previous titles at all, this will blow your mind. If you haven't played any of the previous titles, this one can also be enjoyed by itself. Though AC vets will find some really god nuggets of reference from past titles. But please, don't let it stop you if you haven't played the others...this one is great all by itself, and though huge mech fights may seem complex on the surface it is actually an easy game to get the hang of control-wise.
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