News: Super Robot Wars on the 360

September 04, 2006, 10:13 PM

by ollie, via Banpresto -
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Entitled Super Robot Wars XO, the franchise has finally migrated to the 360. To all intents and purposes though, this is merely a snazzed up port of Super Robot Wars GC. The problem here is that 1) the Gamecube version didn't do that great and 2) doing another 3D version is tantamount to suicide with the franchise, especially when Alpha 3 had some of the best 2D game animation ever seen...well, ever. Thankfully, it has the Cougar and Layzner. As such, all is not lost.

The game's released in Japan on November 30th for 7329 yen.

Ollie Edit: To display why 3D equals bad in this context look at Dancougar's Final Dankuu Kou Ga Ken on the GC version and then in Alpha 3.

Another Ollie Edit: For those that are interested the Soul of Chogokin Dancougar toy is getting re-released in October. It's worth getting for anyone who enjoys their Super Robot Wars.