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    #61
    Brilliant game though... you played thru the harder levels? So mad with some decent speed in the game, very realistic requiring some skills to play well. Fave mission for me is the mines, where the chopper drops you in pre-started, along with the presidential rescue with the respawning Regal
    Yes brilliant. Especially the losing of saves. Seriously, that made the game so much more terrifying. I reckon its as close as us mere civvies can get to real combat, I was genuinely afraid when I first started playing, since I kept getting to low numbers of supply points and near deaths. Id have to psych myself up before going back into the field. Take Medal of Honour, not scary at all, if I die I just restart, not in SB though. You die in that, you die for real.
    Brialliantly tense.

    Btw, the mines?!
    What kind of masochist are you?
    Originally posted by spoiler
    Light VT, no railgun, surrounded by VT's, on low ground, with more enemies being airfreighted in. It was a tactical nightmare, and I came dangerously close to losing my save several times playing that.......
    Your right, a bloody good mission.
    ahh, the memories.
    Anyway, I completed all the levels, except the mines on the highest difficulty.

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      #62
      I just went and pre ordered it from Game , there was only 1 other person on the list at my local store !!!

      Have been kicking myself for not getting it first time around , not going to miss out this time , just hope its worth the whopping price tag

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        #63
        apparantly capcom are releasing a pack with both games and contoller with out a fear of limited stock but i'm not sure

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          #64
          It had better come with a copy of the first game otherwise its useless to me

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            #65
            See here for the 2 games and controller, none left though at the mo.

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              #66
              Just had this email from gamesplanet:

              Nigel,

              Your box wont be damaged as we are sending via CityLink...

              and

              No we are not shipping with the original game...


              Also noticed this on another forum:

              A guy on NTSC mailed capcom and they confirmed if you buy the pakc with the controller it would have the original Steel Battalion in it as well..

              ummm shall i cancel my pre order or not.

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                #67
                Just got off the phone with Game and YES you do get both games

                Hope that helps

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                  #68
                  Originally posted by Junko
                  Just got off the phone with Game and YES you do get both games

                  Hope that helps
                  Is that exclusive to game though?

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                    #69
                    Originally posted by nigel1210
                    Originally posted by Junko
                    Just got off the phone with Game and YES you do get both games

                    Hope that helps
                    Is that exclusive to game though?

                    No it s not as Amazon were selling the same 2 game pack a while ago.They have now ran out.

                    In a nutshell youre getting a bad deal with GP. Ask them to chuck in a copy of steel battalion with the pack as everyone else apart from them is selling the 2 game pack.

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                      #70
                      Originally posted by nigel1210
                      Originally posted by Junko
                      Just got off the phone with Game and YES you do get both games

                      Hope that helps
                      Is that exclusive to game though?
                      No,in Europe you get both games when you order the controller from this new batch,in the US they re-released the first game with the controller a week before LOC came out.So for once we get a good deal.

                      Just worried that when we get the game we join mid way through a campain and all the best VT's will be gone.

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                        #71
                        i hope more come in, on ign it says
                        A separate package will be available that includes the massive controller, the original Steel Battalion, and Line of Contact. The price for the bundle is unknown, but Capcom has said that there won't be a shortage problem this time around.

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                          #72
                          There is a few on Ebay for sell at the mo, see here

                          Most of the auctions have reached the ?130 mark already though.

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                            #73
                            otaku84, mate, your love for the game is amazing...

                            Originally posted by otaku84
                            You die in that, you die for real.
                            ...aye, damn sweet. A feature I would like to see in more games I dunno about you, but I can recount the exact images of the destruction of a few VTs. The rescue mission, damn intense on the higher difficulty (without jumpjets ), played for a while and had little shielding left, along with zero supply. Two Regal-Dress A fight, one making his way onto Capitol Hill taking a building down with him with me pulling closer trying to get inside minimal firing distance for missles (missle happy, see) when I caught another round fired at my wingman from the left, took him out. Another VT had joined, a Regal that had ejected his additional-missle load from the extra sheilding afforded by the VT (can't remember the weapon, launched when ejecting extra armour - F2, or F3 ); I had to back off. The rounds impacted on the floor, I'm safe for a few seconds when I see the warning light flash -- the missle-happy VT had launched another and I'm sat there in reverse, in lethal range. I hit the chaff, nothing. The smoke clears from the barrage of missle fire, I see the trail from the newly fired missle and the tracking box moving closer to my position. There's nothing but silence at this point, as I realise my impending doom. pwn3d, totally.

                            First game, granted. But the potential is there for heavy firefights in the second title. Given the limited audience of the game, I hope the environment gets populated with nothing but the nutters who stuck with it and played right through to the end.

                            I hope you're on Live, let me go check the gamertag list

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                              #74
                              Sadly I dont have Live yet, not even broadband.
                              But the one thing that is convincing me is this game, having loved the first.

                              Started the topic because I was interested to hear others views, in case theyd tried it. Steel battalion has reports of how the officially released US version is running btw for anyone interested.

                              I doubt it will die too quickly, so it may be a while, but I hope to be on there at some point, of course with otaku84 as my usertag.
                              Out of interest, there isnt someone on there called that already is there?


                              Nice story about the rescue mission
                              I found to make things easier, I killed off about half of them, meaning it took only half as long to rescue them all.

                              Another scary mission, the one with shooting down all the choppers, I didnt realise the weapon with extra armor, one you mentioned, could home in on aerial enemies. So I spent my time on the edge of the cliff, machine guns and light cannons blazing in all directions. In retrospect, it feels vagually like the Matrix 3 robot scenes.

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                                #75
                                Originally posted by Geo-V6
                                Originally posted by nigel1210
                                Originally posted by Junko
                                Just got off the phone with Game and YES you do get both games

                                Hope that helps
                                Is that exclusive to game though?

                                No it s not as Amazon were selling the same 2 game pack a while ago.They have now ran out.

                                In a nutshell youre getting a bad deal with GP. Ask them to chuck in a copy of steel battalion with the pack as everyone else apart from them is selling the 2 game pack.
                                Just got this email back from Gamesplanet:

                                Andy,

                                Just contacted Gem (distributor), and they informed me that every Steel
                                Battalion Pack comes with:

                                - Steel Battalion - Line of Contact;
                                - 40 button controller; &
                                - the original Steel Battalion.

                                The game on the site has been updated, THANKS ; ).

                                Kind Regards,
                                Todd
                                Games Planet Team

                                So no need to worry about not getting the 1st game.

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