My review for Gundam Battle Assault II for PSOne

01-08-2003, 09:02 AM

Wow. This game sucked. It was pure crap. Hard to control your characters and it mixed universes to please idiots. Controlling a ranged weapon is done by Left/Right + Down + Circle/Triangle, but doesn't execute most of the time. That, and the backgrounds and lighting hurt my eyes alot. Or it's my three-year old glasses. Another problem I ran into; armor gague use. With Big Zam, you have four gagues to protect yourself before you die. Well, two gagues go away in a matter of three machinegun attacks from a Zaku F-Type. That, and the aiming is ridiculous with computer enemies. Whenever you try to hit a Wing suit, it blocks the attacks and proceeds to pummel you. I won't get started on Devil Gundam, which is a waste of coding. All it does in CPU is shoot fish out of its crotch and bean you with them. The Psyco Gundam Mk. III (WTF, never in a series) just walks around like a Hill Giant in Ever Quest and EASILY leaves itself open, then blocks after fourteen shells from a machinegun hit it. the beam attacks, I can tell, were made for Wing fans, since the beams can slice through anything, and do a fine job in doing so since it whips its saber up and whacks you. In order to win the bloody game, you have to read countless FAQs, which sometimes give no help, and still lose. Winning street mode was easy on hard, but after that, it gets dull and you wanna break the disc this crap is sealed in. The music is also repetitive. For the 'Side 7' level, it sounds like a rip of FF Tactics music, the 'A Baoa Qu' level has a really annoying spacey music thing, the street is rock, and don't get me started about Neo Hong Kong. 2.1 for music. Sound? Yea. voices and Sounds both suck. The voices sound worse than the dubs, with the added effect of sounding rattled. The sounds are okay, the MS-walking is nice, but gets annoying, as do the 'chiu-chiu-chiu~..... NOT ENOUGH POWER. pachin' you get when your enemy wastes its fuel. The beam sounds are rips from Wing, the machineguns are from Twisted Metal IV ricochets (better game... MUCH BETTER GAME! ._.;

, while the vernier sound is... A 'chui!' from the Wing series. A 3.6 for that. Graphics? AU! Okay, I'm not picky about those things, but you can tell the mobile suits are Street Fighter/King of Fighters sprites with armor! That, and the brightness of the 'A Baoa Qu' level stings my eyes, and the beam saber-effects also. That's BLINDING. 4.7 for graphics. Gameplay is a bit dull, no mini-games, and just Street Mode, CPU VS., 2P VS., Time Attacks A and B, and Survival Mode. The first three are repetitive. Select someone to wail on and fight them. Time Attack has gaudy bonuses, while Survival is just a constant bloodfest of 'let's see who can lose now'! A 6.1 for gameplay. Oh, but the game's not THAT bad. If you want something to keep your friends occupied over for a while, this is it. It IS fun, but it gets hectic. Overall score? I dunno. Or care at this point. It's not all bad, just get GBA1, you'll be happier.

01-08-2003, 09:02 AM	#1
Goodwin the Goof Guest Posts: n/a	Wow. This game sucked. It was pure crap. Hard to control your characters and it mixed universes to please idiots. Controlling a ranged weapon is done by Left/Right + Down + Circle/Triangle, but doesn't execute most of the time. That, and the backgrounds and lighting hurt my eyes alot. Or it's my three-year old glasses. Another problem I ran into; armor gague use. With Big Zam, you have four gagues to protect yourself before you die. Well, two gagues go away in a matter of three machinegun attacks from a Zaku F-Type. That, and the aiming is ridiculous with computer enemies. Whenever you try to hit a Wing suit, it blocks the attacks and proceeds to pummel you. I won't get started on Devil Gundam, which is a waste of coding. All it does in CPU is shoot fish out of its crotch and bean you with them. The Psyco Gundam Mk. III (WTF, never in a series) just walks around like a Hill Giant in Ever Quest and EASILY leaves itself open, then blocks after fourteen shells from a machinegun hit it. the beam attacks, I can tell, were made for Wing fans, since the beams can slice through anything, and do a fine job in doing so since it whips its saber up and whacks you. In order to win the bloody game, you have to read countless FAQs, which sometimes give no help, and still lose. Winning street mode was easy on hard, but after that, it gets dull and you wanna break the disc this crap is sealed in. The music is also repetitive. For the 'Side 7' level, it sounds like a rip of FF Tactics music, the 'A Baoa Qu' level has a really annoying spacey music thing, the street is rock, and don't get me started about Neo Hong Kong. 2.1 for music. Sound? Yea. voices and Sounds both suck. The voices sound worse than the dubs, with the added effect of sounding rattled. The sounds are okay, the MS-walking is nice, but gets annoying, as do the 'chiu-chiu-chiu~..... NOT ENOUGH POWER. pachin' you get when your enemy wastes its fuel. The beam sounds are rips from Wing, the machineguns are from Twisted Metal IV ricochets (better game... MUCH BETTER GAME! ._.; , while the vernier sound is... A 'chui!' from the Wing series. A 3.6 for that. Graphics? AU! Okay, I'm not picky about those things, but you can tell the mobile suits are Street Fighter/King of Fighters sprites with armor! That, and the brightness of the 'A Baoa Qu' level stings my eyes, and the beam saber-effects also. That's BLINDING. 4.7 for graphics. Gameplay is a bit dull, no mini-games, and just Street Mode, CPU VS., 2P VS., Time Attacks A and B, and Survival Mode. The first three are repetitive. Select someone to wail on and fight them. Time Attack has gaudy bonuses, while Survival is just a constant bloodfest of 'let's see who can lose now'! A 6.1 for gameplay. Oh, but the game's not THAT bad. If you want something to keep your friends occupied over for a while, this is it. It IS fun, but it gets hectic. Overall score? I dunno. Or care at this point. It's not all bad, just get GBA1, you'll be happier.