Playstation 3 Mobile Suit Gundam Crossfire Review

Overall 1.00 of 5 (by 1 user)

StarSoldier1
Lake In The Hills, IL

What the @&^!*

gundaming this back to the store.

Pros

Might be a tax write off.

Cons

the game looks like crap, the game plays like crap

JUL

2007

Playstation 3 Mobile Suit Gundam Crossfire —

Gundam Crossfire for the Sony Playstation3 (or PS3 for short of course) was once one of the most antipaticated titles for the console. I remember watching a special trade show back in 2005; a time when the PS3 had unlimited potential. There Sony showed off jaw dropping videos of Bandai's next generation Gundam game and it had everything you could want in a next generation like stunning backdrops that looked like they were ripped off a big budget Hollywood movie and hot robot on robot action. I swear it was so good that it was almost like watching really good porn! When the PS3 finally arrived in stores on November 17, 2006 this Gundam game was going to be one of the launch titles as well. So did the game live up to the hype? Oh, hell no!

There isn't much story here; you play as a giant mech that's either part of the Earth Federation Forces on a mission to defend the planet or the invading Zeon army. Neither side is too different and in the end you just do the same thing: battle other rival mechs across several different boring missions. Your mechs have some cool close and long range weapons that can be upgraded in between levels but overall the action feels too simple with the instant lock on feature and the bad computer A.I.

If that wasn't bad enough the game looks like complete crap! Not only is the game loaded with nasty fog and underdetailed environments that look nothing like the beautiful Computer Generated videos from 2005 but these sad graphics wouldn't be passable on the Playstation2. Oh, and by the way the game even runs into a lot of frame rate problems too so get ready for tons of slowdown while playing. Yeah, the game has a two player mode here too but it's split screen only and, you guessed it, the game runs even slower now so its just pointless. The mechs themselves and the clouds in the distance look kind of cool but that alone can't save this from getting a big fat 0 out of 10 for graphics. The game does have some decent sound effects and voices but the people reading this hardly sound excited to be part of this game. Would a little emotion have killed them?

This is not only a disappointment to PS3 owners everywhere because most Wii games look better but the popular Gundam franchise has been around for decades now and you would think Bandai and Namco could make something that was a least above average. Gundam Crossfire isn't fun, it doesn't look good, and the whole thing is just a total disgrace that should have never been released in the first place.

Gundam Crossfire overall rating: 08/100

For 1 or 2 players
Rated (T) for Teen
graphics: 0/10
sound: 2/10
gameplay: 3/10
replay: 1/10

-StarSoldier1 2007
Ryan Genno