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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.

Sorry Gundam fans, This game is terrible!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: November 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You would expect a PS3 game to have amazing graphics, game play and be just plain fun. This is NOT that kind of game.
The good news.
*There is a Gundam game for the PS3 and the Gundam suits look pretty good.
*The opening cutscene looks amazing.
The Bad news
*The opening cutscene looks nothing like the actual game. If all you care about is graphics, this is not the game for you. You would expect this game to be on the ps1 or even the Sega Saturn, but not the most powerful next gen system. The battle areas are bland, with no detail past the muddy looking ground and poorly animated trees. There are glitches everywhere in the game such as water going through trees and when your Mech tries to cross a bridge and falls in, the water just sits there. The other thing about the graphics is that the frame rate is clunky, it's as if you're constantly blinking and don't see every fluid movement. Only you're not blinking, you're seeing the actual game.
*The missions are straight forward and take no skill whatsoever considering the lock on system is more than accurate because you don't even need to face your enemy completely to hit them.
*The controls are mushy and don't respond well.
*It's tedious to make your Mechs and maintain them. When damage is done to them, YOU MUST repair them because you can't continue the game otherwise.
It's bad enough this game had to be released for the PS3. The very idea that people will buy this at launch makes me very very sad. This is not worth paying for a $[...] system and you should let this game collect dust on the shelf of your local game retailer.

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...

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.

X PLAY REVIEW HIGHLITES

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

DON'T BUY THIS GAME !! It looks like it came off the PS1. The controls are not good and the camera is awful. Check out the X-play review.

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.

Don't Waste Your Money...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Put it this way, if Amazon had the option for zero stars, this game would get it. Graphics are sub-par, gameplay is just plain bad. I rented this from Blockbuster, played it for a few hours, then returned it that night. Of the all of the titles released or due for release for the PS3, this one gets my vote for being the worst. You'd think the developers at Namco would've realized this before they released it. Don't waste your time or money.

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...

It would make a better coaster....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was so mad when i played this game....i was hoping it would get better...but no...the controls are like driving a broken lawn mower. The invisible walls are really annoying. Atleast in Armored Core you can go alittle past without leaving the mission, but this is just stupid. If i had to put a price on this game..hmm they would have to pay me to play it..it is that horrible, that disgraceful. The people who made it obviously have no ability to understand what would be fun in a mech game (derranged howler monkeys for techs?). I got so bored and annoyed with this game i put it in the microwave, you can guess what happened then. Do not buy this game if you have an IQ of greater than 12 or it takes something more than "ooh shiney" to entertain you. Armored Core on the regular old playstation (one) is more entertaining than this, it does not even use the graphics of the PS3 well. Gundam has a wonderful story but this game does not even try to do it justice, this game should be forever stricken from the records. If you want a good mech game...get armored core...let this one rot in *censored*. DO NOT even rent it, you will just be thinking wow...i could have got a pepsi/coke for the money i wasted on this. The only reason i gave it one star in each category is because zero was not a option.

Wish I had researched beforehand

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

I bought this game as a gift for a friend who owns a PS3. We both like sci-fi and giant robots so I figured this would be fun for both of us to play. The back of the game said it is a one or two person game which I foolishly assumed meant that there would be a cooperative mode. There IS NOT! You can play one player campaign mode or two player head to head.

First, the instructions are pathetically incomplete. We're seasoned gamers but we spent a long time trying to figure out the optimal use of the controls. One particularly bad bit of gameplay is the fact that you cannot move when you use your shield to guard.

Second, the graphics are terrible (incredibly blocky) as others have mentioned. This looks like it could have been a PS1 game and that was with the HD graphics on a 60 inch 1080i HD television!

Third, the head to head gameplay starts you off like an old west shootout with both robots facing directly towards each other a very short distance apart. There was no time to use strategy, just start firing away. On a side note, the beam gun seems to unbalance the game.

We played for a couple of hours before getting thoroughly bored and we went back to playing some PS2 games. Please don't waste your money like I did.

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