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Gundam The Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: February 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love this game and would recommend it to any one that is a Gundam fan or just someone looking to try something new. I never before played any of the previous games on the PS2 but after playing this game I went back and gave a few of the old games a look over. They are all very fun, colorful and exciting. This newer version Gundam Crossfire for the PS3 system is outstanding in my opinion. I played and beat the game three times and each time it gets more and more exciting. Each battle you become stronger your skills increase leaving the enemy helpless. I have played countless amount of times on the very hard setting achieving the rank of General while unlocking Gundams of all types as well as enemy mobile suites that are not selectable until completing the game with good ranking. I've found that the Gundam is the strongest followed by the Gundam Ez8. I say give it a try. Play it, beat it and keep going. See how fast you can complete the game as well as the individual missions. See if you can get a perfect ranking of 'S' on every mission, see if you can complete most if not all mission without being hit by enemy fire. Make it fun, challenge yourself, challenge the game. See if you have what it takes to be a Gundam pilot. Thanks Amazon I love it. Forgive my spelling if there are miss spellings. One more thing. For fans of Gundam or if your not impressed with this particular Gundam game for the PS3 check out this website, it will give you something to look forward to. [...] Click movie and hit play. Enjoy:-)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a big improvement over the last Gundam game, made for the PS2. The Mobile suits in the game are impressive.

A kind of sad way to continue the gundam saga

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I purchased Gundam: Crossfire, I was expecting a world-class, hi-def game for the PS3. I was wrong. Although the mobile suits have hundreds of tiny details, the scenery looks like something a 6-year old could have easily made. The gameplay is frustrating, more commonly is one's mobile suit destroyed than a mission is completed. However, the reason I'm giving this game 3 stars is because it was exhilirating to unlock and order new, more powerful mobile suits such as the great GM Sniper II. Overall, if you're a huge gundam fan, go ahead and buy, but if not, this game is a waste of money.

Great game for a launch tittle.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Let me start by saying I'm a Gundam fan, but not a fanbay;I can't name every mobile suit or character name, heck until recently I thought the Gouf MS was pronounced "Goth", like in Gothic. On to the review.

Graphics: 4.85/5 Sweet, but I've seen seen a little sicker graphics on my PC, albeit that my PC has almost all the latest hardware. Still, this is the best looking Gundam game to date. It's almost mind blowing.

Game play: 4/5 It plays like a revamped version of MS Gundam: Federation V. Zeon. The controls are very good, but the R2 button for the sniper mode is very sensitive; if your finger even lightly brushes up against it you go into sniper mode, which is really annoying. There are two campaigns: Federation and Zeon. There are four levels of difficulty: Easy, normal, hard and very hard. Lots of mobile suits from the one year war, all of which are customizable. Pilots gain levels and become better over time.

Difficulty: Varies

Replay value: 4.50/5 It has two campaigns; each can take any where from 4 to 7 hours or up to complete. It has new-game+ type of feature that allows you to keep all your MS, Pilot levels, cash, and rank which all carry over to your next play through, but the difficulty level is automatically up-ed by one each time. Plus it takes multiple play throughs to get the best pilots and other sweet stuff like the MS suits that the enemy uses.

Pros: Lots of Mobile Suits. Strategy and RPG elements. Two different campaigns. High replay value. Best graphics for a Gundam game to date.

Cons: R2 button issues. Needs another difficulty mode to account for replays. No space missions. No character voices or anime pilot scenes like in previous Gundam games.

Overall: A very good game for anyone whose into Gundam or giant robot type games.

it's worth the $15

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game's worth the money i spent on it.is it the best gundam game, no. but is it the worst, far from it. im a huge gundam fan, and idc wtf anybody says, this game is fun, and the graphics dont look like their for the ps1. it's a pretty good attempt at a gundam game for the ps3

Decent

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am a Gundam fan, ive watched the shows and love the games, my favorite being federation vs. zeon. I would reccomend this game to mostly just a gundam fan because this particular title doesnt offer much to bring in someone to the band wagon. Overall the graphics are very nice, attention to detail is the best so far for the gundam series, however there is a framerate problem. At times it can seems like the framerate gets choppy, but it clears up really quickly. Gundam vs. Zeta had it even worse when it came to frame rate. As for replay value its definately there, i dont see why other gamer sites rated it so low, i actually enjoyed getting more pilots under my command, and buying more and more gundams to serve in my army. Great game.

But you can still have fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is not finished. Great concept but poorly executed. I was really upset that I had no idea what to do. No useful help or the features early on for the players to learn how to control the robots. In general the entire playing system need a lot of polishing making it user friendly and fix some bugs. Normally I give up and move on but this was the only PS3 game I had at the time. So I went through the hard way. Yes, like previous reviews, graphics are not so great for PS3 but not as bad as PS1 quality and it didn't bother me as much once I knew how to control and get really busy going here and there doing stuff.

It's flexible that you can snipe some enemies not in move from far if you are not strong enough or just go crazy destroy everything using guns and sword once you get good robots specially in second loop and beyond. The fundamental problem of this game is no easy way to do anything. Everything is difficult (very easy to be defeated though) and asking too much from the players. You have to find your own ways. But I think concept is great and they did try to utilize PS3's potential in true sense instead of porting existing game and made it look cool while context remains old like some other PS3 games.

You can enjoy if you play well and in fact I have more fun playing this one than the Ridge Racer 7. The problem is the game is not finished and virtually unplayable for the majority of the people. Do I recommend to buy? Yes, buy used ones if you are a Gundam fun AND willing to be upset learning...

Great game but feels unfinished

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I will preface this review with the caveat that I am a big Universal Century Gundam fan, which accounts for much of my enjoyment with this game.

Graphically: As others have said, this is not the most spectacular looking PS3 game out there. The interactive environments help to make this feel less like a PS2 game but the overall appearance of the terrain is a little last generation. The mobile suit and mecha models are amazing though! The problem is, there is no model viewer, a standard in most Gundam games, so you can't take your time and really enjoy the various models.

Gameplay: This game is ridiculously hard at points, if you are trying to do things carefully or use team tactics. You pretty much have to throw tactics to the wind and charge in madly, to hit objectives before you're MS is torn apart, ignoring the enemy Mobile suits that are murdering your wingman and shooting you full of holes. The more realistic speeds are hard to get used to since everything moves so fast these days, but I don't necessarily feel this was a bad thing to do. You certainly feel like you are moving about in something massive. I also liked the regional damage, where you can have arms, legs and head damaged or shot off. It's very satisfying to complete a mission when you are missing weapons, limbs and a head! The targeting system can get annoying though, especially since the enemy can target you long before you can target them. It's not perfect, but the controls are functional, and once you get used to the speed and tactics of the fighting, you can definitely finish a campaign on normal mode in a few nights.

Music: Contrary to reviews I have seen elsewhere, I think the music is really outstanding in this game. It features full orchestra, and all new compositions (not just the classic Gundam music that gets recycled in every U.C. Gundam game.) It has a big, epic sound to it, and I enjoyed it so much I ordered the CD soundtrack from Japan.

Customization: You can customize your mobile suits, which is a nice touch, especially when you change the various types (Desert, Heavy etc.) For Gundam fans it's a neat way to see the various pilot and variant paint schemes/designs. You can also get better pilots for your wingman, but here again they seem to have skimped and you only get names, without even a portrait to identify them. Unless you are a hardcore UC fan, you won't recognize a lot of these people so they won't have the significance that they should.

Story: There isn't much of one at all. The missions are pretty generic (capture this base, now defend it, shoot down this transport, etc.), and contrary to the cover's claims, you don't have any effect on the overall war. The Feddies still win, no matter how well you do as Zeon, and all the major events play out just as they did in the series. I was also shocked that there was no high quality intro movie. There is even a little animation on you PS3 menu that plays a clip from a high quality rendered movie, but it's not on the game itself!

Summery: It's a good game, but it feels like it was rushed in development. Parts of it, like the music, and mobile suit models are amazing, and other parts, like the terrain, co-pilots, and game play don't feel finished. Some of it (like cut scenes or more in-depth story) isn't there at all. It's still worth picking up if you love Gundam, and understand what you are getting, but it will no doubt disappoint most console players.

Definitely Rushed for the PS3 Launch

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We are generally great fans of mech games, and have played many of them. We were psyched when Gundam came out for the PS3 - and very disappointed when we played it.

If you haven't watched the animated series or played other Gundam games, you are engaged in a great war involving a set of mechanised large robots fighting another set of almost identical large robots. They can stomp on tanks, kick over buildings and engage in hand to hand energy-sword combat. Think of gigantic samurai warriors who enjoy both blade and gun.

The two sides here are the Federation forces, protecting Earth against the Zeon - an Earth colony who has come back to Earth to take over. All of the fighting takes place in various locations on Earth, which by now has had half of its population wiped out by this fighting.

Don't worry too much about plotline here, though. Really what happens is you are dropped into a landscape and told to blow up every enemy unit you find. While most games give you training and guidance at the beginning, this game tosses you into the fray, without even a hint of what to do or how to do it. Expect to get a few sad deaths before you get the hang of things. Of course that's assuming you start out on the standard difficulty level - there are five difficulties here, including a 'very easy' suitable for 5 year olds.

Speaking of five year olds, the graphics really needed much more work to be up to PS3 standards. The mechs themselves are OK, with a fair amount of detail, shadowed edges, reflective surfaces little details of logo and lettering and battle scarring. There is a realistic feel to how they move.

On the other hand, the world you tromp around in is PS2 level in quality, if not a little worse. I've definitely seen better water animation in many PS2 games, as well as tree and landscapes.

Gameplay ranges from frustrating to laughable. You get stuck on invisible walls. When you slash at enemies, you go into the "black knight" of the Monty Python Holy Grail movie, where limbs fall off and the robot hobbles after you without any arms. You do get to upgrade as you progress, earning more options. You can customize your suits in your hangar - but the interface is very clunky and looks almost PS1 in style.

They do have some nice features that show some thought - if you fire off a rocket style weapon, a cloud of smoke envelops you and you have to wait a few seconds (or move out of it) before you can see well again.

I have to comment on sound because first, the voice actors in combat are very silly. Second, the soundtrack is almost *exactly* a rip-off from the Gladiator soundtrack. I own and love the Gladiator soundtrack and it's amazing how many sections are pretty much exactly the same. I'm surprised there isn't a copyright suit being launched here.

In addition, we had problems with stuttering sound, to the point that we had to reboot our PS3 and try again. Luckily, it went away once we did that.

In general, this was just not a fun game for us to play, which was a real disappointment. Maybe a future release for the PS3 will have the time spent to fix many of these issues and draw us into playing it repeatedly, like we play our other mech games.

Definitely not a showcase for PS3 power....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I like battling giant robots, and in this respect the game is pretty good, but the graphics are really a huge letdown. As another reviewer said, it looks like it came out of a PS1, and that's true, textures are murky, robot models are angular and low on detail... As one of the console's launch titles, it must be kept far far away from any demonstration booths...

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