Gigantic Army

First Impression: It's difficult not to compare this to Metal Warriors for SNES, but that was the experience that I was looking for when buying this game. I feel it was a step back mechanically from SNES. Mainly the button mapping. It's great that you want a retro feel and you allow button mapping, but we've had 6 button controllers since the **** don't need to bind melee with shoot. I would also like to have a seperate hold button for my fire arc rather than holding down my shoot button to do that, forcing me to time my jumps and movements with my gun's rate of fire. This makes me feel like I have less control of my mech. Movement of this game is very slow. You are walking everywhere. Yes, Mechs are slow, but every game usually adds something to help out. I am not always boosting up, can't I boost forward in the air (like the SNES)? Or something like the 'skates' from Heavy gear? I have 8 more buttons on the 360 pad. That won't happen, though, because the levels are very small and faster movement would reveal that. These problems could actually be ignored if the story were less boring. But it's a Japanese game, and that's clear with the ****'s all about the score. Overall, it's good. $6 is a fair price. It was worth skipping a Starbucks coffee. + It hits the retro feel without being cheesy about it. + Good character design. + decent weapon variety (6) - Sloooooow movement (not sluggish) - Music is alright, but nothing that I will be whistling on my way to work. - 6 actions tied to 4 buttons. - One mech, no customizing - Single Player If you are looking at this game and haven't played Metal Warriors, I also suggest finding a copy of that.

There's talent behind the graphics, but I didn't feel compelled to replay the short campaign, even though I only made it ~30% through. I feel like the game could be completed in an hour or even less. The gameplay is slow moving spectacle action, with a few platforms thrown in.

Cybernator Lite – is how I can sum up this game in two words. Being a clone of old-school mech action games like that of Assault Suit series is pretty much what this game had intended, so the developers have succeeded in that regard. However, make no mistake, it falls just about short of Cybernator in almost all regards – the production value simply isn’t there compared to the originals and while you can’t hold an indie developer to have production value of a AAA title, it just feels a bit lacking in most regards. The graphics, while it starts out vibrant, falls a bit flat and is dull as you progress to the stages, and enemy designs are much the same. I can’t help but feel that the team started to run out of steam as they got along deeper in to the development. There’s nothing too much standing about the music, though I couldn’t peg it for being bad either. The controls and movement are essentially exactly like Cybernator, so no issues there, except locking the gun angle is not as intuitive, but nothing that’s a deal-breaker. Getting through the game and blowing everything up feels pretty good, and it offers a decent enough challenge to get you trying a few times. In all, it held me over for a good indicated 4-5 hours of playtime, but it’s a short one-and-done game for me. It’s not a terrible game by any means – I got exactly what I paid for – a Cybernator clone. But the execution of everything is just about average, so that’s the score that I will be giving this title.