A slightly different kind of Gundam game has been announced, where you seemingly fight giant alien monsters. Called Gundam Rogue Orbit it certainly looks interesting.
I need to be up front here, as I knew about this game a good few years ago, but thought it had been canceled.
I’m glad it wasn’t, as it genuinely looks very impressive and quite different for a Gundam game.
This is because the main enemies in this game look to be large chitinous alien monsters, which your titular Gundam can slice into tiny pieces.
If you’re thinking that this kind of pairing up of mecha and monsters is new, you’d be quite wrong.
Back in 2011, Konami released an arcade game called Steel Chronicle, which had large mecha take down large scary monsters.
This was done in part to compete with other big mecha multiplayer games in the Japanese arcades, such as Sega’s Border Break.
Also, in terms of Gundam, we also had large, scary aliens as the main antagonists in the Gundam 00 movie, Awakening of the Trailblazer.
Not to mention the Lost Planet series of games, so this kind of pairing up is not at all new for mecha games.
In any case, there’s a long and quite storied history of mecha versus monsters, and I am glad Gundam is leaning into that, at least in game form anyway.
Gundam Rogue Orbit also looks very nice indeed, and the game is using Unreal Engine. I’m also really digging the game’s mecha designs, so I’m hopeful that this game will turn out okay.
Gundam Rogue Orbit is released next year for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.
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