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SHOGO Mobile Armor Division

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

SHOGO is a great game, it is fast-paced and enjoyable, although it lacks somewhat in the toughness category. The story is decent and the fact that some of the stages use MCA combat and others use manual combat is unique, (or was at it's release). I highly recommend this game, I will suggest getting your 3D card first though!

A good and overlooked shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: April 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Shogo was a shooter released around the time of Half-life. Itfeatured some original twists. For example, there is a cool animethemed story full of twists and turns. It let you run around in a huge robot (mecha) and on foot. There are completely different weapon sets for both level sets.... The levels are well integrated into the plot and well designed. The graphics are very nice and are built on the Lithtech engine by Monolith who also made Shogo. Watch for this engine its giving Quake 3 and Unreal a run for their money. Oh and did I mention that the main character kicks ...? After hearing some of his one-liners I almost fell off my chair. The bottem line here is that Shogo is a great game for its extremely low price. If you are one of the many that missed it rectify your mistake forthwith.

Shogo rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I don't normally play all the way through 1st person shooters, I get bored long after blowing away the two thousandth guy with my shotgun and give up because I can't stand the boredom anymore. However, Shogo has a special place in my heart, as far as 1st person shooters, it has the best single player story ever (IMHO). The anime theme is so cool and the characters are great. Plus its a lot of fun being that big mech dude, and the other characters make me laugh (especially at the end).

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.

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.

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.

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.

not exactly replayable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is very entertaining and absorbing, but it's too short, and not exactly replayble in single player. Multiplayer isn't that great, and it's buggy as heck. However, for a short time during the duration of single player, this will probably be one of your favorite games. The story is great, as are the graphics, and the hit points for enemies are very realistic - shoot a guy in the head and he's dead. I really like the anime style, and the sense of scale while in a Mech.
I would like to see a sequel with better multiplayer and a longer campaign game. That would be awesome.

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.

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.

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