Developer(s) Artdink Platform(s) PlayStation Portable Genre(s) Action | Publisher(s) Bandai Release JP: September 22, 2005 | |
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Series Mobile Suit Gundam series Games Gundam Assault Survive, Gundam Battle Royale, Gundam Battle Tactics, Gundam Battle Chronicle | ||
Gundam Battle is a series of games exclusively made for the Sony PlayStation Portable game console, all based on a same game engine. Currently there are 5 games in the series.
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Gundam Battle Tactics
Gundam Battle Tactics, released on September 22, 2005, is a third-person action/mech-combat simulation game for the PlayStation Portable, based on Japan's long-running mecha-based series, Gundam. Tactics, released only in Japan and South Korea, was later followed with a sequel, Gundam Battle Royale, also for the PlayStation Portable, in late 2006. This game follows the events of the One Year War and most scenarios are heavily influenced by animation episodes from One Year War storylines, namely Mobile Suit Gundam, The 08th MS Team, War in the Pocket, and Blue Destiny. This game plays similarly to another Bandai Gundam game for the Sony PlayStation 2, Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles.
Gundam Battle Royale
Gundam Battle Royale is a game released for the PlayStation Portable. The game was released only in Japan and South Korea on October 5, 2006. The game features many mobile suits and mobile armors from the Universal Century up to and including Zeta Gundam. It is the sequel to Gundam Battle Tactics. A sequel called Gundam Battle Chronicles has been released on 25 October 2007.
Gundam Battle Chronicle
Gundam Battle Chronicle is the sequel to Gundam Battle Royale and Gundam Battles series. It features over 140 Mobile units including the 80 units in Gundam Battle Royale and improved the multi-player gaming system so that the single-player missions could be played in multi-player's mission mode. New additional missions are from Stardust Memory, and MSs from Gundam ZZ, Gundam Sentinel, and Char's Counterattack.
Gundam Battle Universe
The fourth sequel of Gundam Battle series was released on July 17, 2008 in Japan. It features over 200 MS units (including F91 in Mobile Suit Gundam F91 and Ξ Gundam in Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash) can be selected; two UC stories (Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ and Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack) become as a part of the campaign. On the other hand, every characters have 2 personal abilities (passive which is activated for all times and additional which is activated when player's HP gauge is at 30%). This game can inherit the Gundam Battle Chronicle's save data. The game also let players use the adhoc function to help each other in the normal campaign mode, unlike the previous games, which multiplayer mode is only available in the main menu.
Gundam Assault Survive
Gundam Assault Survive is the fifth and newest game in the Gundam Battle series. Unlike its predecessors, it expands beyond the Universal Century and into Gundam series from alternate universes. Mobile Suit Gundam F91, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and the first season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 all become part of the campaign, while Mobile Suit Victory Gundam contributes MS. The game was released on March 18, 2010 in Japan.