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Let Loose The Hounds Of War!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: July 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Chromehounds, Is THE BEST mech game 60 bucks can buy. (the only alternative for you rich peeps is steel batalion, it had a $300 controler) any way as the story goes, The cold war errupts into a full scale global civil war!!!!! I know cool huh? Now in this alternate reality there are 3 countries: Tarakia, Morsgoj ( pronounced mores-goy), and Sal Kaar. Now each country has its own features, technolegy and land scape that players will have to consider before choosing your alliance. For example: Tarakia is mostly the ruins of a war-torn metropolis, Morsgoj (hopefully you pick up the eastern eurpeon language refference here) has you guest it.. SNOW SNOW AND MORE SNOW!!!!! Oh yeah and some mountains. And Sal Kaar is similar to the middle east, Deserts.
When you start the story mode you will have to pick a country. it is best to fight for each eventually in order to pick up the most weopons and experience. Now there are 6 types of "hounds": Soldier, Defender, Heavy Gunner, Sniper, Scout and Commander. In story mode you complete missions with the types of you choice in order to become sertified in that class.
And Now For the best part of alll.....................
Baaa... Baaa......Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,... BA BA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE ONLINE MODE!!!!! ( BA BAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!) This Online mode is run by a seperate server than other games. allowing a percistant world of plunder, warcraft....and.... EXPLOSION!!!!! BIG EXPLOSIONS!!!!!!!!!! You can be allies with up to 19 friends to make a squad and you fight with 5 other squad members at a time making a clan. You fight other clans that try to defend your terretories. also you can conquer other terretories. In other words you are playing an entertaining game of risk.you goal is to take over the world. Everyone has there job. and through comunication you prevail.
I have been watching this game since winter 2005 on G4 and it has not disapointed me. on july 12 Xplay on g4 reviews chrome hounds. you can see what they say at [...] also check out [...] for trailers. A BIG 5 OUT OF 5!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome graphics, but boring and slow!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: July 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I purchased chromehounds on the launch date. Played it and gets confused so easily. The background music gets annoying after a few minutes... I simply hate the music!!!I started off with the story mode. The first mission was some instructor showing you how to operate a hound. The problem is the instructor's voice is so hard to understand. The graphics are simply awesome and realistic. The Maps are Huge, which makes it hard to search for enemies. It took me 4-5 minutes to find a couple of tanks to shoot at. After 10 minutes of story mode, I got bored and decided to go online. Online will confuse any one. It took an hour to figure out how to join a game, such as capture the flag. The downside is that connecting to a game online with other players is difficult....75% of the time, I was unable to connect to the host. After 2-3 hours of playing online, I managed to play 1 game...capture the flag. It was fun at first, but because the map is so huge, it gets boring walking around just to look for other player's hound. Late at night, I felt this game wasn't for me and sold it online. In my opinion, chromehounds are meant for patient people and 100% mech lover that likes to look at the back of these walking machines' back. Mechassault 1 is Much more fun to play than this game.

An awesome game in my opinion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Chromehounds was a game that I had been looking forward to for a long time, and boy was it worth it! The huge online multiplayer is really a lot of fun to play. Unfortunately, I am having trouble finding my way around the whole game although I am getting used to it. One of the best features of the game is the garage. This is where you will spend a lot of time customizing your hound. I like to experiment with certain parts and then decide on a final model to keep. When in the xbox live menu, a large map of the territories is displayed showing where the battles and cities are. Squads are also important. Be sure to join one as soon as you start playing. Its hard to comlete a mission with just one hound. Explosions are some of the best I have ever seen. Unfortunately, after destroying an enemy hound, it simply just dissapears. I don't know if it's a glitch, but I hope it gets fixed. Overall this game is the game for me, but I respect other peoples opinions.

Pros: MULTIPLAYER, the biggest feature of the game.

Overall detail of your hounds and what they can accomplish is extremely amazing!

Squads are a ton of fun to be in.

Cons: Not a game for everyone. Some will be dissapointed

Maps are a little barren, but not a big deal

The background music in the menus got annoying very quickly.

Attack Dogz

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Alright, you want to know what chromehounds is? It is a game for gear heads and patient people, and fans of the mechwarrior style genre to bask in its solid gameplay, excellent graphics, and astounding amounts of customization. And thats not even including xbox live.

Now, lets start off with the Gameplay. Its simple, and to teh point. There is no stupid menus you have to use to pick an attack. There is a menu to issue commands, but only commanders can use it, and even then, its not necessary unless in campaign.
Right bumper changes weapons, right trigger fires, the analog stick control movement, and the right thumstick clicks in to give you a first person view that wobbles realistically with the terrain and movements. other than that, there isnt much you need to know, unless surfing through the game menus like the garage or mission selection (out of gameplay).

Onto graphics, now, and be prepared, because they are excellent. The game is normal mapped, which means geometry isnt very complex, which also, while some games are hampered by this, makes chromehounds even better. Because of the hardedged style most mechs are built in, it makes it look more realistic, and also adds a surreal beauty to the buildings, especially in the urban maps like Xerxes, because they can do much more with lighting and texturing. Note also, that I think the particle effects, while on occasion seem a bit redundant, are probably unrivaled on the Xbox 360. Even GRAW's notably spectacular explosions cant stand up to watching smoke trails form in real time, and then fade away realistically in the wind.

Onto maps, and this is where I think Chromehounds takes a bit of a slowdow, but I dont mind, and you shouldnt either. The maps are mindblowingly huge. Take into mind, of course, that you are a threestory tall walking/rolling/floating machine of death. That means you should probably be moving faster than a ground soldier. And it still takes around fiveminutes to cross fully some of the smaller maps. And, they are all well designed with varying terrain in many of them that seems realistic.

Onto online play. This is probably the greatest part of Chromehounds....but Im not enjoying it much, only because I got confused as to how to get into the Neroimus War Persistant World. I am too busy to read the manual, or play with it, but the freeplay and quickmatches are great, fun, and solid. Just takes a bit of patience. Ah, the chaos of a teenage summer.

And lastly, the mindblowing customization. Because of the hexagonal style of the weapons, you can fit many weapons onto one mech. And, you can customize the series which each one fires into four different classes, designated by you. If thats confusing, I mean, you can tell the hounds which weapons to link together to fire. Once you see it, you understand. Also, there are many different pieces to fit in each of the many chategories. Of course, you get a free mech for going online to play with, if your not into doing that, but its really simple to do once you get the hang of it. And, like me, you might just end up sitting infront of the TV set building it and fine tuning it for hours. I prefer a fast mech with a high rate of fire, so I have many chainguns, and I constantly keep my eye on my max speed, keeping it above 200 at alls times. There is also a hexagon which tells you which way your mech leans. You'll recognize it from other games, mainly RPGS...I think there is one like it in Pokemon for the contest things....

Overall, this is a game that will keep me playing for years to come, and despite what people are claiming, I say that the campaign is fun, especially when you tear through it with your own mech, instead of the borrowed ones.

An online tactical mech sim

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Chromehounds is a decent mech game that merges the style and customization of Armored Core games with the simple control style of Mechassault. The developers also tried to encourage teamwork by forming RTs or role types for each of the mechs. You've got Soldiers, Defenders, Scouts, Snipers, Heavy Gunners, and Commanders. Most custom mechs will be hybrids of the different RTs but that adds to the strategy of the game. Unfortunately, the strategic element of the game is ONLY realized online. The single player portion of the game plays out more like a training mission to familiarize the gamer to how to use the wide variety of weapons and components. If u don't play online, don't buy this game.

Now, if you do enjoy online play, you are in for a treat. As long as you don't mind sim style play and teamwork, ChromeHounds will provide hours of squad play, mech customization, and occaisionally some pretty wicked battles. Unfortunately, this is far from a 'next-gen' title. The graphics are decent but the environments are Afghanistan-boring. The sound effects are decent but the music is definitely mute-worthy. The online mode variety is top notch though. The biggest draw is probably the persistent war that force clan and nation affiliation. New clan members have to be approved by teammates of course. The war option also has online shops, part trade rooms, squad lobbies, and such that build upon the option that was introduced in the Mechassault series.

Mech customization can be intimidating at first. Each part has a laundry list of stats. Stability, weight, reload speed, energy, heat generation, speed, defense against different types of ballistic weapons (note that this game has no energy weapons or lasers), turning speed, and more. It takes a little experimentation and trial and error but once you catch on it can be fun.

Lastly, the controls are simple but there is an art to it. Each of the different weapon groups require different aiming. This is important because unlike in Mechassault, you can do damage to different parts of your enemy. Blow off all their weapons, wreck a scout mechs mobility by damaging their legs, or simply blow them apart by focusing on their cockpit. Missile racks fire at a wide angle, shotguns spread out, artillery weapons do splash damage at long range(yet must be lobbed), mech melee 'piles' require point blank precision, and so on.

In the end, the fun factor of this game is pretty high if you play online, enjoy teamwork, and like sim-style 'realism' if you will. Offline play for this game is worthless. If you can't play this game online, do not buy it. The single player version can be beaten in about a day and the AI isn't good enough to make CPU matches interesting after a few hours of play.

New 360 game missed again

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Call it a 3.5. The game is good enough with decent sound and the graghics at times are very good, but I don't think they are up to the 360. I cannot vouch for the online play, I'll leave that to others. But, for those of us who like a good single player game (not online) or to play co-op (offline) it ain't there. I love the fact that you can play any of the hounds and do each one through the limited single player game, but there really is no single player game, much less co-op. There really is no story line and it is over in about an hour or so. I was really dissapointed in that part of it. So if you're like most and only want to play online you'll probably like it, but if you are hunting for a good campaign game pass it by for now. One way or the other I'd wait for the price to go down if I had it to do over again.

Chromehounds is an online masterpiece

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok, don't buy this game if you do not play online. The story mode is the worst part of the game and only takes about 8 hours to complete, if that. The story mode is still important as it gives you free parts to make your mech for online play. However the war is where its at. Not only can you setup ranked battles against other players, but you can also setup battles with your friends against the CPU all in the name of your nation. Levels take a long time to come by, and it feels like you've accomplished something when you get them. Rising your clan to the top makes you feel great to. Servers update every hour letting you know the goings on in the world, and teams and players get special recognition for great achievement (and for donating 10 million to their nation, which is also an achievement). To participate in the war, you must be part of a clan, and all members of your clan must be the same nationality. At the end of the war your squad can switch affiliations, to get all the best parts each side has to offer. Great online game, great gameplay and strategy. A must have for any online gamer.

The truth about ChromeHounds

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

ChromeHounds is primarily an XBox Live game. If you do not have XBox Live (gold), do not buy this game. The single player is short, not overly exciting, and is mainly just used as a tutorial and stat-building module for Live play. If you have XBL, read on...

As far as XBL games go, ChromeHounds is one of, if not the, best the service has ever had gracing it's servers. On the surface, the game looks like a new version of MechAssault. However, that is where the similarities end.

ChromeHounds has three main online modes: 1) Single Player, 2)Free Missions, and 3)Persistent world warfare.
The Single Player online games are more like mini-missions. They aren't all that fun, but you do earn money to buy new Hound parts. The Free Mission and Persistent war modes is where CH really shines (the war ends when one country dominates the other two, then the server resets and the war starts all over again).

The online slug fest is one of the most enjoyable experiences you will have playing a game online. Essentially, you build a Hound, alter it to the conditions of the battle field, and duke it out agains your opponent. Similar to MechAssault, but with all the things that held MechAssault back - build your own custom mech, set the conditions of the battlefield, incrdible realism (especially for beign a mech game). I could write all day about the features and merits of online play, but the best thing for you to do would be to get a copy and see for yourself.

The only rough area with the online mode is that the menu system of the lobby could be tuned a little better. Still, it is a minor irritation.

Good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

To start out, I was pretty excited to get this game and couldn't wait to play. At first the environment and the build up was getting me ready to play. It has a great storyline, although it would be cooler if it were a little closer with real geography than fake areas. The game has great ideas, and its a blast to play. The one thing you got to remember is there is never really a perfect game. Several people have ideas on what would make the game better. The one thing we got to hope is that they come out with a expansion or downloads to make the game eventually a even better game.
The controls were very easy, but at times you have brain farts in the heat of battle and instead of switching weapons you drop the map down. The good thing is that everything is quick so even the slightest mistakes you can regain control in seconds. The multiple selections of everything from cannons to mine detectors there are endless variations of hounds. There are little problems but they are easily fixable. For an example there was a level that three hounds were getting in front of each other shooting the one in front killing each other (dumb AI). But I gave a little nudge to the guy in front and pushed him over and everything was fine.
I haven't played too much online yet, I am doing what was recommended and play story mode first and gain as much parts and then compete against the others.
To sum it up, the game is fun if you have the creativity and like to blow things up.

If you don't have XBOX Gold - RUN AWAY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: July 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game SUCKS. The single player is VERY shallow, and short. There IS NO MULTIPLAYER on splitscreen. ALL the multiplayer is XBOX 360 GOLD. Unless you already have XBOX Gold, THIS IS A WASTE OF $60.

I had really high hopes for this title; I used to trust Sega as a publishing house. While they got the graphics right, and the gameplay is fun (though can't hold a candle to Mechwarrior), the single player is just NOT WORTH IT.

My friends tell me XBOX Gold multiplayer is good, but I wouldn't know. At least with a PC game, they give you a month or two of free online access for your $60.

STAY AWAY.

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