Steel Battalion: Heavy Armour War roundup

**Samorai** · 08-17-2011, 10:25 AM

Who remembers Steel Battalion on the original Xbox? I do, I even saw one of its 18 foot wide, 3 ton weighing, 9 friends need to operate it game controller in action once.
For those not rich/crazy enough to have owned the original game and it's aircraft carrier sized controller, Steel Battalion offered a semi-realistic take on what bipedal mech warfare would probably be like. The good news is that there's a sequel coming out for the 360. The so-so news is that it will require Kinect.

Whilst it's not set in the original game's timeline, it still retains the signature VTs (Vertical Tanks) set in 2082, a post-technological apocalypse world where high-technology has been lost and reverted to World War 1-2 levels (apart from the VTs of course, got to have some exceptions). It'll be caused by iPhone 12, you'll see.

Set to be a first person action game, the player will use the standard controller for movement, Kinect for starting engines, rotating turrets and so on - sounds interesting but I could easily see the control system end up being a bit overcomplicated. It could be a fun game to play with a friend - one doing the turret with Kinect and the other driving.

It also promises to allow you to high-five members of your tank crew for successfully completing a mission. Now that's innovation, not nearly enough high fives in games. Capcom haven't commented where you'll be able to perform rebounds, down-lows or too-slows.

Here's the new Gamescon trailer which reveal some of the backstory...

...and this is the initial teaser trailer:

And Kotaku have a gallery of screens here.

**loutzee** · 08-17-2011, 11:28 AM

This game might be fun if your paul the octopus

**Are You EXPd** · 08-17-2011, 02:00 PM

you've got to ask yourself, in that first trailer, why the fuck did they bother sending all those ground troops in to get brutally slaughtered for no good reason, when the big AT-ST things just walked up and were the only useful things there.

**Samorai** · 08-17-2011, 02:01 PM

Damn! How did you find out I was Paul the Octopus?!

Originally Posted by Are You EXPd

you've got to ask yourself, in that first trailer, why the fuck did they bother sending all those ground troops in to get brutally slaughtered for no good reason, when the big AT-ST things just walked up and were the only useful things there.

Probably to show you the TRUE HORRA of war - and maybe for the same reason they don't send nothing but tanks into warzones e.g. tanks cost a lost of money, take time to built whereas infantry is cheap and cheerful and more versatile than armour.