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I love this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This has got to be one of my favorite shooters ever. The story is cool (not to mention hilarious), and the gameplay is nonstop fun. It mixes up the action with both on-foot and mech sequences, and both are different and exciting. I remember having a lot of fun with the multiplayer a few years ago, but good luck finding anyone to play it with these days... Anyway, it's cheap. Buy it.

Extremely Well Done

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

For those of who don't know this was a translated japanese game originaly, big mechas, very much like in anime. But the whole game isn't played in the mecha, there are missions, that you as a solider, must complete on foot. It isn't a mindless game where you are guided through, there are a couple places throughout the game where you actually get to chose whether you do one thing or the other, and hence changing the rest of the game. It has awsome multiplayer and great graphics, just make sure you have a computer with at least 500 MHz, it will be a little jumpy if you have too much less.

shogo, very good!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think this game was very good.but,the graphics could have been better.When i first played this game,i thought it was to hard,but after a while i stared getting better.i hope you like this game as much as i did.

from,Evan Filley (...)

Perhaps the best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion, the fact that this is an action game pulls off quite a lot quickly in the depth department. This is a nude woman all the way through. No, there's no nudity. But that's what it feels like. This action game is free completely of any toughness whatsoever, and indeed, excess emotion and anger will make you lose the game.

This game is often depicted as its own worst enemy. The bad guys will not react if you kill someone standing right next to him/her. However, the insane amount of enemies and their high-damage weapons and lack of health packs makes this all the while. It's worth every penny if you can get it cheap.

The quality of the graphics is so efficient that you would call it pure story. This is the level of being able to pause the game or quit it and walk away from it and consider it for months on end. Just take a look at some of the rooms and corridors and you would call it art.

At the end of intolerance, a new kind of shooter is born. That's how I'd describe Shogo. One level keeps you floating in space on a cruiser, making you question your actions as you walk around with a gun that's loaded. Another makes you feel angry the whole time, then you're required to rescue a cat at the end. Good level design. Other levels require absolutely no weapons fire and just good acting. The amount of choice here for a kind of forced rpg feeling is amazing and breathtaking.

It's forced onto you because you need the right attitude to keep gunning bad guys. And that's what makes this special. That when it's over, you feel like you've cheated to win, and therefore, the story lives on in your world.

Shogo: Mobile Armor Division

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Shogo: Mobile Armor Division is an fps with a great story driven gameplay. Set in the future it is a japanese anime inspired game. You play Sanjuro Makabe a soldier in the United corporate authority security force and against the terrorist leader Gabriel, he is in love with two girls both of them sisters and daughters of the general. The story is orginal and a certain situation you will be given an option of what to say. In the level "city of hope" you will be given an option of what to say, If you choose the first option you will get to play many levels in places much different from what you would play if you choose the second option. The game has two different endings. Shogo's gameplay is very good, part of it you play Sanjuro on foot and part of it he is riding an mca (giant robot), They are very well balanced, few levels on foot, then robot, then on foot, then robot ect ect, They make the game lot of fun and very intresting. There are many types of mca's for you to choose, very fast but a weak mca, very strong but slow mca ect. Shogo's gameplay is very good, There are lots of great action with lots of villans to fight. The enemy AI is bad, baddies do not react if you snip their partner standing nearby. This flaw makes shogo a little linear.

Shogo is powered by the lithtech engine. I played it on the Direct3D video mode and the game runs very well. The graphics are outdated today and the human charecter dont look real, but being an anime inspired game makes the graphics quite ok. There are loads of well designed and challenging levels. The level designing is fantastic and some of the levels are quite funny, In one level you need to jump from roof top to roof top in your mca and in one level you need to search for a pussy cat in a wearhouse so that it's owner would open the door which will let you into the next level. Shogo has a lot of really cool weapons and there are loads of different weapons for the human and the robot. Shogo's only flaw is the weak AI, besides that it is surely the best giant robot game ever made and a great fps.

Finally I had a small problem with the game and almost everyone with Geforce based video cards may have that problem in Shogo and Blood2. The main menu will not appear or keep flickering. Turn the vsync to always off in the more Direct3D option or go to planetshogo.com, They have a solution for it.

Could have been great!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

All this game needed was a better story and a little more time ont the characters, and surrondings. This is a really good game it is really fun to play and it is pretty cool when you kill the people and the robots. They kind of over exagerate on the killing the humans when you kill them the spew out so much blood. Like all of the blood in there body goes out through one little cut or bullet hole.

So much potential...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First off, I really enjoyed playing Shogo but I was left wanting. The game has much growing room. I found the game particularly unstable and highly prone to crash. The story was cheesy, even for a comic book. As has been pointed out before, who came up with this rather pathetic attempt at a translation? The game was also a little bit too easy, can we say predictable AI? When will someone come up with a baddy that won't just stand there while you shoot him if he can't see you? You gotta love the weapons, ya just can't beat a good sniper rifle!

Bigger IS better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Shogo is one of my favorite games and thats saying alot since Im not much of a fan of first person shoot 'em ups.
the game can be played several different ways at first... no probably should'nt tell you what happens. anyway its got choices that determine the outcome of the game. each person has at least 12 gallons of blood though so if you dont like blood this is not your game. I think it will be fun for anime fans and new comers alike.

Best Kept Secret in Gaming

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In the world of Film, it often occurs that higher-profile projects steal the limelight from lesser-known, albeit more deserving contenders.

This seemingly occurs as well in the world of gaming. One such case took place years ago, and it involved the game Shogo.

Shogo, a very polished FPS, is a game which takes itself much less seriously than others of its kind yet surpasses them in many ways. It integrates a great game engine, fun gameplay, different game modes and even slight RPG elements into its formula, making it a true winner.

Monolith's game certainly does not lack style. Based on Anime cartoons, both level and character design are greatly hightened by the thematic choice. What we are left with is a game that at no point bores the player.

Shogo seems to really nail the genre it belongs to. While providing a (then) much needed change of style for an FPS, it did not lose playability in the process. Mortal Kombat-like blood and gore are spread all over in typical Anime fashion, and the maps are divided between slighlty strategic and full blown-action.

The use of the locations is quite bright, making you backtrack only to find reinforecements have been called, in a realistic manner. The gameplay is well balanced, and little details such as the speed of the human character's walk are just right.

Consider this my vote for a sequel.

Amazing Shogage

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This has to be one of the best first person shooters I have ever played. It has more dynamic characters and character interaction than a huge number of other games I have played! It has a raving soundtrack that is bested by none other, and matched by few. The graphics were great and even today don't detract from the gaming experience. The game was released back in the day and /still/ runs on computers, including ones running XP! This is no small feat. You can even find a port by Loki for Linux! Woot! The story and weapon selection are dynamic, deep, and involving to boot. I highly recomend this game.

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