About three weeks back, Bandai-Namco released their first big-name, free-to-play title, Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation on the PlayStation 3. Set during the original Gundam series, this multiplayer third-person shooter reenacts some of the biggest battles in the One Year War, with six people siding with the Earth Federation and six with Zeon. But is this first step into the world of free-to-play gaming a worthwhile one or is Gundam Battle Operation just another example of 'you get what you pay for.'
Good — Unique Take on Capture-the-Points Gameplay
The game itself is set up like your standard capture-the-point versus mode—you go out, capture points, and then defend them. What makes Gundam Battle Operation unique is how you do it. To capture a point you actually have to leave your mobile suit, making you vulnerable to bullets and explosions—as well as giant robot feet. If you kill an enemy player while he's outside his suit, you can take it over yourself, allowing you access to all its weapons. If you're smart, you can even sneak behind enemy lines and lay a bomb on the enemy home base—pretty much guaranteeing you the number one spot on the scoreboard.
Good — A Real Weight to Your Giant Robot
The mobile suits in Gundam Battle Operation handle far more like enormous lumbering tanks than giant humans—and this is a good thing. Every suit feels heavy and moves realistically for an object of its size. This makes weight—and therefore speed and maneuverability—an important consideration when choosing your mobile suit. Are you willing to ditch your armor to speed back and forth across the battle field, or would you rather be able to shrug off enemy bullets like annoying flies? The choice is up to you and your play style.
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Mixed — Play Time Equals Strength
While being able to choose your mobile suit is a great tactical option, when starting up the game for the first time there is zero choice or customization. You have one suit for each side with no weapons nor augmentations. In battle you will undoubtedly be facing opponents with far better suits and gear—so much so that you could fire at them non-stop for a full minute with the
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starting machine gun and still not kill them. Of course, they can just take you out with a few rockets or a sword thrust.
Upon your team winning (or losing) a battle, you gain experience points which are then put randomly into research for new weapons, armor, and mobile suits—and there are tons of these items to unlock. Unfortunately though, because of the sheer number of possible upgrades, it will take a long time before any single one has been researched enough to use in battle. Still this wouldn't really be an issue if you were allowed to play as much as you want to grind out the experience points. However, when Bandai-Namco said Gundam Battle Operation was free-to-play, what they meant was..
Bad — Free-to-Play (..for 30 minutes a day)
Each battle in Gundam Battle Operation takes ten minutes and costs one 'energy point.' You gain one energy point every two hours and can save up to a maximum of three. This means you can play at most thirty minutes in one sitting—i.e. thirty minutes a day if you have work or school—unless you are willing to buy more energy off of the PSN. In a game where it is impossible to be competitive unless you've grinded exp hour upon hour, it pretty much becomes 'pay money or prepare to wait weeks for the fun to start.'
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Bad — Only Two Maps
Another annoying bit is that, at this point in time, there are only two playable maps—an open desert and a rocky canyon. While both are very different in layout, there are only so many times you can play the two maps before getting a bit tired of them. More maps are promised to be in the works, but at the moment, the lack of maps makes for very little variety in how each battle plays out.
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Final Thoughts
As a free-to-play title, Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation isn't half bad. It looks good and plays well to boot. There is a ton of customization and the whole mechanic of leaving your suit adds an entirely new level to gameplay. However, only being able to play it in short bursts without paying really puts a damper on the game—as does being more than a little useless in battle until you spend a sizable amount of time playing. In the end, Gundam Battle Operation is worth a download, but only those who fall in love with its gameplay (and have money to burn) are likely to give it a permanent spot on their hard drives.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation was released on June 28, 2012, for PS3 on the Japanese PlayStation Network.
Gundam: Battle Operation 2 now has English language support.Released in Japan back in July, the latest update for the game now has an English language option for the Japanese and Hong Kong versions.
You have to look for the '言語設定' setting in the game’s options and then switch to '英語' but it should be fairly straightforward after that. If you download the game for the first time, the language select option will appear, so it's even simpler.
If you are not familiar with the game, the original Gundam: Battle Operation was released on the PlayStation 3 back in 2012 and was based on the Gundam Senki 0081 engine and assets. The game also added ground combat with infantry and was obviously more focused on multiplayer combat.
The online service for the first Gundam: Battle Operation shut down in June 2017 and while it was never released outside of Japan, it received a decent following abroad. So when the new game on PlayStation 4 was announced, with added space combat, fans were initially quite happy.
Unfortunately, the game itself now feels rather dated and quite clunky in places but it still seems to have quite a big community behind it.
The interesting thing for me is that the original people behind this have ties back to Team White Dingo, who worked on the old Blue Destiny trilogy on the Sega Saturn and Rise from the Ashes on the Dreamcast.
The pity here is that those games were quite fast paced and, more importantly, set in the first person via a nicely claustrophobic cockpit view. Krishna flute music download.
Gundam: Battle Operation 2 is much more of a slower paced shooter set in the third person and that definitely doesn’t help it to branch out to newer players.
In any case, the game is free and now that it has English language support, the language barrier is now far more manageable. Be warned though, the game is not that great and if you want something more polished and structured, then you may want to check out Gundam Versus instead.
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Gundam as you've never seen it before!
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