Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor , like its predecessor before it, is essentially a mech simulator unlike any other game you'll find on a home console. Rather than using a special controller designed specifically for the one game however, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor combines the flexibility of Xbox 360...

Concept: Revive the mech combat series, swapping out its notoriously complicated controller for a Kinect-based interface Graphics: The inside of your Vertical Tank looks great, and the game does a great job of selling their old-school physicality.

In writing this review, I feel compelled to wag my finger at a responsible party, but I can't decide who is most deserving of my ire-of my utter hatred. Is it Capcom for promising and delivering this...game? Is it From Software for agreeing to develop and slap their name on it?

Nice graphics

Hitting cacti with your butt; Your arms; Nick Tan for sending me this game

As I mentioned when discussing the demo released on XBLA, I have a soft spot in my heart for the original Steel Battalion . While the game was basically a ridiculously expensive toy, featuring a massive, forty plus button, dual stick controller complete with foot pedals, it was also quite a lot of...

The wonderful thing about mecha is their transformative power. It's a dream embodied by the 'falling into the cockpit' trope introduced...

Audio truly accentuates tension of battles; The bond that comes from trying to keep your Platoon alive; The quieter; more considered stages

Complicated controls + hard setpieces = disaster; Gesture-based quick time events destroy immersion; Mech is a slow; vulnerable piece of junk

I can still remember the first time I saw the ridiculous controller (and I use that term loosely) that came with the first game way back in 2002. I was intrimidated by the sheer size and complexity of it, to say the least.