Whether you’d like a long-range gunner, a brawler, a transformer, a pirate or a ninja, choices are abundant. (And yes, all of the Gundam Wing boys are on hand.)Ĭharacter types are so varied that there’s likely to be something that plays exactly to your personal style. Fans of the source series will be pleased that Bandai Namco has gone above and beyond to include not just the main character suits, but several notable units from any given anime. Drawing on 40 years of Gundam TV series and movies, cartoonish, avant-garde and toy-commercial aesthetics all clash on this battlefield. This isn’t a simulation, but a free-wheeling arcade game that presents its suits in the spirit - but not to the letter - of their animated counterparts. Gundam Versus’ level of polish and absurd lineup of 94 playable Mobile Suits (the Gundam multiverse’s proper name for its war machines) comes in large part from a very long arcade run which never left Japan.Ĭonsidering the large roster, it’s surprising that very few of these suits feel similar to play. This line of games, but a tiny branch of the incomprehensibly large merchandising empire attached to the Gundam sci-fi anime, is actually nearly 20 years old.

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