News: Virtual On bots in next Super Robot Taisen

February 08, 2005, 01:26 PM

by chazumaru, via Ruliweb -
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Malicious people at Ruliweb have revealed that the next Weekly Famitsu will feature a full report on Banpresto's long-expected Dai3ji Super Robot Taisen Alpha on PS2. After two episodes on the PlayStation, a remake on the Dreamcast and another chapter for the PS2, this will be the fifth installment in the "Alpha" subseries - easily the most successful and popular offspring of the titanic Super Robot Taisen saga, considered as not only one of the best license-based series ever, but also a terrific tactical RPG in it's own right.

Part of the success of the "Alpha" family can be explained by its roster of licensed robot series, which is often star-studded, and favored over the other SRT subseries. This one will make no exception, as the likes of the highly popular Gundam Seed, Ideon, Gaogaigar, Gaogaigar Final, Macross the Movie and Top wo Nerae Gunbuster have been spotted. But more importantly, and arguably as an interesting retaliation to the recent announcement of a Namco x Capcom game that seems to borrows a lot from SRT, it clearly appears (according to Famitsu scans) that robots from Sega's Virtual On series will also be included in Dai3ji Super Robot Taisen Alpha.