Official Site
Had most of the morning dedicated to this...
A little back-story...
A military coup d' etat has emerged taking over America (lead by the Vice President) and it is up to you, the 47th President; to don your 'Metal Wolf' armour and take back America!
So it seems a fine game. Though don't expect any Armoured Core type shenanigans in terms of mecha customisation. Apart from choosing from a set of 8 weapons to equip your machine in (4 weapons for the left hand and another 4 for the right. However on some occasions, certain types of weapons will take up both hand slots) and buying and 'researching' weapons, that's about your lot.
Weapons range from pistols/ assault rifles/ bazookas and rocket launchers. Your main way of attack is the dual weilding combination of weapons which do have ammo stocks, so you wont be able to plug away forever. Although ammunition found throughout the stages are plentiful.
Action as you would expect is frentic, with foot-soldiers/ armed watch towers/ tanks/ blackhawk helicopters among many gunning for you. As in tradition with FromSoftware, destructable environment is aplenty. Though not quite as much as OTOGI where mountainsides and the ground itself could be made to cave in. With Metal Wolf Chaos you wont be able to raize full blown buildings to the ground. It's mainly the smaller stuff like signs/ metal cargo crates enemy vehicles and so on.
But still, much fun.
Each stage has set criteria (mainly blowing up the yellow checkpoint dots on the map) then proceeding on. Nothing too confusing so far in my playtest of the first 3 to 4 stages thus far.
Graphically it seems very accomplished, with a type of 'fuzzy shine' type filter (seen in OTOGI 2) being used. Explosions, heat hazes look fine. Nothing too dramatically bad or exceedingly good to point out.
Sound wise, the voice acting is as cheesy as you can get. With your Personal Assistant sounding like you would expect, and the President being some kind of 'cowabunga surf dude' type attitude.
The intervening cutscenes on DNN carry the same cheese.
I usually berate poor voice acting, but in this, it kind of fits it well in a tongue -in-cheek poke at America, with it's left field storyline.
Strangely enough, you can have your own custom soundtrack playing on the menu screens.
With the controls, it's 'TYPE 3' where:
up = look down
down = look up
left = rotate left
right = rotate right
If you're weird like me, and prefer to have:
up = up
down = down
Then choose 'TYPE 1'
Types 2 and 3 seem to keep whatver the 'up' and 'down' axis are. but they change the the 'left' and 'right' directional axis, where:
left = rotate right
right= rotate left
Overall, it seems good if you like no brainer action with lots of explosions and gunfire to keep you entertained.
Had most of the morning dedicated to this...
A little back-story...
A military coup d' etat has emerged taking over America (lead by the Vice President) and it is up to you, the 47th President; to don your 'Metal Wolf' armour and take back America!
So it seems a fine game. Though don't expect any Armoured Core type shenanigans in terms of mecha customisation. Apart from choosing from a set of 8 weapons to equip your machine in (4 weapons for the left hand and another 4 for the right. However on some occasions, certain types of weapons will take up both hand slots) and buying and 'researching' weapons, that's about your lot.
Weapons range from pistols/ assault rifles/ bazookas and rocket launchers. Your main way of attack is the dual weilding combination of weapons which do have ammo stocks, so you wont be able to plug away forever. Although ammunition found throughout the stages are plentiful.
Action as you would expect is frentic, with foot-soldiers/ armed watch towers/ tanks/ blackhawk helicopters among many gunning for you. As in tradition with FromSoftware, destructable environment is aplenty. Though not quite as much as OTOGI where mountainsides and the ground itself could be made to cave in. With Metal Wolf Chaos you wont be able to raize full blown buildings to the ground. It's mainly the smaller stuff like signs/ metal cargo crates enemy vehicles and so on.
But still, much fun.
Each stage has set criteria (mainly blowing up the yellow checkpoint dots on the map) then proceeding on. Nothing too confusing so far in my playtest of the first 3 to 4 stages thus far.
Graphically it seems very accomplished, with a type of 'fuzzy shine' type filter (seen in OTOGI 2) being used. Explosions, heat hazes look fine. Nothing too dramatically bad or exceedingly good to point out.
Sound wise, the voice acting is as cheesy as you can get. With your Personal Assistant sounding like you would expect, and the President being some kind of 'cowabunga surf dude' type attitude.
The intervening cutscenes on DNN carry the same cheese.
I usually berate poor voice acting, but in this, it kind of fits it well in a tongue -in-cheek poke at America, with it's left field storyline.
Strangely enough, you can have your own custom soundtrack playing on the menu screens.
With the controls, it's 'TYPE 3' where:
up = look down
down = look up
left = rotate left
right = rotate right
If you're weird like me, and prefer to have:
up = up
down = down
Then choose 'TYPE 1'
Types 2 and 3 seem to keep whatver the 'up' and 'down' axis are. but they change the the 'left' and 'right' directional axis, where:
left = rotate right
right= rotate left
Overall, it seems good if you like no brainer action with lots of explosions and gunfire to keep you entertained.
Comment