#Gundam versus 2 player series#

When the bar empties thereвЂ™s a moment when the suit thumps back to the ground, immobile for just a second. The mechs have a boost bar that drains as they charge and slide around the field. Gun duels are quick and deadly, with both fighters constantly boost-dodging to avoid cannon fire while blasting away with their own heavy lasers. Every mech is armed with a basic gun, at least one special ranged weapon, and a partner that they can call in to perform a single attack. IвЂ™m not used to fighters focusing this much on ranged combat, and the skill with which Gundam Versus makes it work was quite impressive. During any fights other than one-on-one duels, the screen is going to be packed with projectiles and explosions, but the camera never wavers from the target, and a color-code lets them know whether the enemy suit is within weapon range. At any given moment the playerвЂ™s camera will be locked on one of their enemies, and swapping between them is as easy as tapping a button, ensuring that players never get overwhelmed in the heat of battle. ItвЂ™s a great way of allowing suits in different tiers to fight each other without equalizing their power levels.Д¬ombat is fast, with surprisingly easy-to-learn controls. As a result, a team made up of 500 point mechs would allow just one respawn each, but a team made up of far less powerful 200-300 suits would have more chances to defeat their foes. The teams each start out with a set amount of points, and as mechs are destroyed, they respawn, their cost coming out of the total. The developers have gone to the trouble of balancing out the mobile suits by assigning each of them a point value based on their overall power level, and every match is fought as a war of attrition. The multiplayer experience is clearly the focus, offering arena battles for 2-6 players.

#Gundam versus 2 player series#

Players pick a mode вЂ“ either single player where they can practice against bots or a series of linked fights, or they can choose from a variety of multiplayer modes. Yet Gundam Versus manages to pull it off, via an incredibly intuitive control scheme and a brilliant use of automatic lock-on to keep the frantic mech fights manageable.ДЄs the title suggests, Gundam Versus is a fighting game вЂ“ no plot points, no character arcs, just a huge roster of mechs and pilots pitted against one another in fast-paced combat that employs a truly shocking amount of circle strafing. So this, a 2-on-2 fighting game set in open 3D arenas seems like an ill-advised concept.

ItвЂ™s fine if polygonal fighters want to get in on the action and IвЂ™ll even accept a little sidestep-dodging, so long as the fighters immediately get back to the left and right sides of the screen.

As someone who played a lot of Street Fighter 2 in arcades, the very idea of fighting on anything but a two dimensional plane seems alien and inadvisable. IвЂ™m still a little wary of 3D fighting games.

WTF Prestige suits cost seven real dollars each. LOW The boss shipвЂ™s impossible-to-dodge laser attacks. HIGH Hitting an enemy across the map with a perfectly-timed stun spear.