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Try it first.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is not your typical game but very appealing. You might want to borrow or rent it before you purchase it. I have had many friends love it and some hate it. It's up to you but it would be wise to try it first! The gameplay can be very slow and time consuming in parts but for the most part it keeps a o.k. pace.

Ring of Boredom

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just rented this game and I think its horrible! I've read the reviews here and it seems some people actually liked this game. I can't see why. It is painfully SLOW. The action is reduced to a wobbling site that has to be placed on a target before you fire...hardly worthy of the PS2. Aside from that, you have to sit through babbling conversations between characters before you actually get to play. Tank battle on my Atari 2600 had much better action than this game. It also gives you an idea how long I've been playing games. Strategy? Action? More like boredom and frustration. The only good thing I have to say about this game is that I rented it and didn't fork out forty bucks to find out how bad it is!

Not a game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: May 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a comic book. With too much plot. Endless pages of text dialog you must scroll through before getting to even a very short action sequence. Even the action is dull and has too much dialog. After a while, I quit reading and just kept pushing the buttons to get through the text and get to some action. If you're looking for action - look elsewhere.

Weak

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: August 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is an awful game. The gameplay is really weak. I was hoping that this might be a great strategy game for the PS2, but it was a very lame action game that tries to throw in some strategy aspects and fails at both attempts. You control a group of mecs and the strategy lies in moving them around a "chess board" type landscape. The action part of the game involves you deciding when you want to shoot the other mec. Basically, a timer starts ticking, and as the seconds pass, your accuracy rating increases. If you shoot too early, you will probably miss the other mec. If you wait too long, the other mecc will hit you first and throw you off guard, resetting the accuracy gague. That's it. Finally, you top that off with the fact that there are truly awful cutscenes after every move and there is no way to bypass them. This game is a big thumbs down.

The worth while games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game carries on after WW II. When you play you control army men and ROBOTS. Yep, You heard ROBOTS any person who likes Mech Warrior and those games, get this. Overall the graphics are very sharp and clear. When it comes to detail for the army men uuuuuuuuummmmm its ok. Not great. The special effects are great for example explosions. The game is a reall challenge. Pure stratergy. I would buy it if you have a chance.

A great alternate history

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well this game has a couple a outstanding attributes first off the graphics. The battle scenes are very immersive the view of the shells hitting the A.F.W.'s (armored fighting walkers) is amazing it actually feels like your watching a documentary of sorts, The entire sequence of the battle scenes (including the cut scenes) are done very well, they remind me alot of the magic and summon's scenes of final fantasy 7 and 8. Another good attribute is the sound, The music is not 5 star but a solid 4. The sound effects are definately a 5. The pressure of time is another good yet frustating attribute, You have to wait for your loaders to load the rounds and it is very nerve racking because you know that your opponent is about to fire, he is just waiting for his accuracy to increase and so are you, plus you also have a time limit to finish your battles. Finally the storyline is great. its amazing to see how this history started and how it unfolds. overall this is a solid strategey game there are alot of factors to consider before your battles so choose your crews carefully.

Average at best

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think there's so few games on the PS2 that even releases of average quality can appear at first to be high quality as you have nothing to compare them to... Ring of Red is an example of this.

Sure it's pretty and has some nice ideas - but this is not a replacement for classic mech games such as Front Mission 3. There are some interesting additions such as the soldiers but very frequently missions become extremely repetitive - there isn't enough variety to keep you coming - at it's heart it's a very simplistic strategy game which drags out R..E..A...L...L...Y S....L...O...W...L...Y thanks to the 'innovative' realtime combat system (which you can't even pause if you need to go and do something!).

Sure you've bought a PS2 and your desperate for something to play on it - but hold out a bit longer - there must be some good stuff on the horizon?! ;-) Musn't there?

In the meanwhile get your copy of SSX and boot it back up - much better!

What a waste of money and time...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

...The game consists of an endless amount of poorly scripted chit chat and boring cinematics. The actual play of the game is even worse. You have 2 play views, first is the landscape type view where you can walk around and attack, second is the attack view where you have little control. When you're fighing you wait for your weapon to charge, while doing so you can tell your 2 squads to attack or prepare their special attack and move your mech BOTH forward AND backward.. yes there is no side to side or real control. Not to mention you move just above snail speed. Once your weapon is ready you can fire it, but not really, you can push the button to fire, then you get this cool looking aim screne, but guess what? You don't aim.. The scope drifts around the screen and the computer tells you the probability that you'll hit and the longer you wait the higher the probability goes, it doesn't matter at all where the gun is pointing when you fire. Stupid stupid game. I haven't felt this [frustrated] since I purchased the 4 CD Lawn Mower man game for the PC. If you like minimal participation in your game, and you like it when the characters talk more than you play, then you may want to rent this one, otherwise stay away.

ok game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: May 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Even though I never played the game, it still looks just dandy. I hope it is like Barneys adventure, because that is my favorite game.

A good game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is good. Its fun to play and the graphics are quite good. I reccommend it. A downside to it is frustrating save function (You can save you exact spot in a mission and load it once, but if you dont save again and you turn it off or die, you have to redo the WHOLE mission -not game- just the current mission.), poor quality sound (Just not very good quality. Very poor sounding, but maybe can be improved by a monster AV 200 or 300 cable? Don't expect sound quality like MGS2's sound.)

Definetely a must buy from people who love strategy games. Has alot of diversity. For further source...PSM magazine game it an 8 out of 10, and awarded it with a bronze must buy.

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