Armored Core 4 review - Xbox 360

If huge battles between giant robots are what you look for in a video game, then build yourself a mechanised fighting machine and head into the fray with Armored Core 4, out now on the Xbox 360. In Armored Core, you get the chance to design your own robots for different missions and see how they stand up to the challenge - or take on friends and rivals in the online game. So how does Armored Core shape up? Find out what we think in our Armored Core 4 review for Xbox 360 now!
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Armored Core 4 review for Xbox 360
Giant robots blowing each other into tiny fragments - let’s face it, it’s one of the reasons we play videogames. Which is why it’s a surprise that the Armored Core series barely elicits so much as a grunt of recognition from Western gamers. Or perhaps that isn’t so shocking when you have a front end with so many user-unfriendly elements. No auto-save is the worst of its sins, but the confusing Assembly mode can have you tinkering with your set-up for ages, only to realise when exiting that you’ve not enough money to use your new schematic. And you can’t just reverse your mistakes, but have to unequip every part you can’t afford and replace the original pieces. Not fun.
Once you’re accustomed to the bizarre menus, pimping your robotic ride with new weapons and parts genuinely makes a difference to your approach. Do you pick a defence-heavy mech that’s a pig to control, or go for a lithe missile-dodger that suffers massive damage from every hit?

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