Armored Core 4 demo now Live

Too bad the demo doesn't let you customize your AC. That's where the meat of the game is.

I've been waiting for this demo. I'll have to grab it tonight.

Cool. I checked metacritic and both the 360 and PS3 versions had the same score. Critics aren't teh biaz, overall, afterall.

Not cool. They both had a 63 meta-score. :(

Forza2 and Mass Effect just can't come soon enough.

Armored Core is the GT of mecha games. You will spent a hell of a lot of time balancing and testing your AC before actually getting into the single player aspect. Likewise, anything from round timing to OB speeds come into play as you're designing your AC. For people who love to tinker, AC is a dream come true. For people coming off of Mechassault 2, it's pure hell.

I prefer the actual game play but I can not stand the new menu system and where is the arena!!

"I prefer the actual game play but I can not stand the new menu system and where is the arena!!"

Yeah, I bitched about Arena lacking as well. I do hate how you have to build you mecha and then see what you can and cannot finance. I do have quite a few "dream schematics" that I simply cannot afford yet.

gave it a whirl last night, deleted it right after. i can't effing stand the grey mist that hangs over everything. it makes me feel like i'm looking at the orginial mechwarrior engine. *yawn*

@Intentless

They actually do have the arena even though they don't call it that anymore. In the ACSIS they have a simulator option that lets you fight against other AC's One on One and when you win you win their schematic and a good chunk of credits.

the problem with the armored core series is that it hasen't evolved since the early iterations. And like the article stated before this is techniclly not the 4th game, there's atleast about 6 of them before this

Seriously.... I'm going in.... Thank you Hellsing...

There have been tons of Armored Core Games. I used to play them pretty much all the way through, but it's become too much of the same.

PS1:
1. Armored Core
2. AC: Project Phantasma
3. AC: Master of Arena

PS2:
4. Armored Core 2
5. AC2: Another Age
6. Armored Core 3

you guys figure out the formula yet?

if a demo doesn't come out before the game comes out in a certain territory, it means they don't think that territory will like it much. so far, its happened with both From Software games...

they'll wait for the initial buying period after it's release, and then release the demo and see if they can get spur up some of that waning interest.

it's like with movie trailers showing more and more of a big movie after it hasn't matched its hype.



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I guess i shouldn't have used a "less then" character as the head of an error. Well, I'm not retryping the second half of the list. Just know that there are 11 games in the AC series, and that I stop trying at AC3.

I've never played an Armored Core game before.

I wasn't really impressed. It's not so much like the mech game I was expecting, but more like a Star Fox shooter with changeable weapons.

And I don't really like the speed of the game. With a big as robot, I want something that has weight to it. A mech game if you will.

This game seems like a genre gap filler. Mechs and shooters.

I love mech games. I have played MechWarrior 1&2&3 Mech Assault 1&2, Steel Battalion, hell, I've even played Earthsiege 1&2 & Shattered Steel (you know, Bioware's first game). However, reading reviews and looking at videos and screenshots have led me to believe this game is a pile. The demo is AC's only chance to convince me to come on board, however, from some of these comments I doubt it'll work.

It's alright - but I think they could've done a lot more with the next-gen hardware. It's very XBOX 1.5 to me - save the HD resolution.

"With a big as robot, I want something that has weight to it. A mech game if you will. "

And yet every Gundam game that gets reviewed gets torn apart for keeping the specs accurate...

I want a mech with weight too. You know, Steel Battalion or Mech Warrior 2&3 kind of weight.

Gundam probably gets torn apart just because it's Gundam.

Gundam games get torn apart because of the horrible control schemes in EVERY Gundam game, that Bandai refuses to fix. 10-15 years since the first game featuring a beam saber you can swing, and still they can't get the mechanic right. But the same goes for Armored Core 4. Just try hitting something with the blade weapons (nearly impossible for hitting anything non-stationary or non-grunt). Armored Core 4 suffers from one of the absolute worst targeting systems in the history of mech games. Hundreds of enemies on the screen, and no way to properly lock onto the boss that is doing massive amounts of damage to you. Chromehounds blows Armored Core 4 out of the water, for playability, and customizations. Ties for shitty futuristic post-apocolypse worlds with battling factions.

And Gundam PS3 didn't get sandbagged because it was a horrible game (it's the same game as the PS2 Gundam games, but with better graphics) it got sandbagged because for some (namely American reviews) there were framerate problems. I didn't have any framerate problems on my PS3, and apparently neither did the Japanese since the game sold like gangbusters during opening week. I'm looking forward to the Gundam game on the 360, and for Gundam Musou to come to the US (Importing a 60 dollar game costs about 90 -_- can't justify the expense)