Not exact matches
Certainly you would need to be a fan of the multiple anime series referenced in order to really appreciate the finer subtleties of the games narratives and Easter eggs, but unlike
other Warriors games, the fact you're controlling
giant mechs means the action is even more intense.
The incredibly rendered and imaginative tracks whiz by at a silky smooth frame rate as my car careens around turns, dodges
giant mechs, and boosts to a hard - won first place, never dipping below 600 MPH, assaults my
other senses.
Stages in the main campaign are objective based, and usually have players running from area to area completing a variety of tasks, like defending a position, activating a mechanism, destroying
giant mechs, clearing enemies, among
others.
Now we have Code 51 Mecha Arena which on the surface looks to capture the magic of pitting
giant mechs against each
other in some arena style combat.
We have only seen a few
mech games for the PlayStation VR; Archangel had you in the cockpit of a
giant mech travelling through cities and county sides in a quest to save the world from a totalitarian government and Rigs offered us a future sport where
mechs battled each
other while having to score points in some pseudo football and basketball games.
Other than that though battlefield strategy does work a lot different, and having
giant building - sized
Mechs means HBS need to introduce big changes.
It combines Firefly, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, XCOM, and
giant Mechs punching each
other and shooting laser beams.
The
other Metanet project in the works, Robotology (which I brought up a few weeks ago), also received a new teaser image showing the Department of Robotology's coat of arms — it looks like a group of
mechs that attach to form a Voltron-esque robot and fight
giant space monsters.
Both on foot and in
giant mechs called Skells, you'll battle enormous monsters and explore a vast world; supposedly it takes around half an hour if you did nothing but run from one side of the world map to the
other.
You'll learn various ways in which to move around, walking slowly like
giant mechs regularly do and skating to speed movement up, while jumping and hovering will also help you in many a situation that involves
other Wanzers and enemies trying to blow you up.
What would in
other hands be a straightforward action series, then, becomes one in which you use a lightsaber (which has to constantly be recharged by waggling the Remote to make Travis seemingly wank power into it), disembowel a singing Native American in a baseball stadium, and fight a killer American footballer and his evil cheerleading troupe in a
giant mech called Glastonbury.
Whether you're a Pilot zipping around the map, a Titan lumbering into battle with
other mechs, or a little guy jumping on the back of a
giant robot to drop a grenade inside it, Titanfall 2 is full of amazing, crazy moments, and intense battles.