News: More ACE R units announced
Posted on : 15-05-2010 | By : Cacophanus | In : News
Hardware: PlayStation 3
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The forthcoming Another Century’s Episode R, or just ACE R, received a nice spread in this week’s Famitsu as well as an official site update. The main news was down to the increase in the number of playable units that will be featured in the game. It’s worth clarifying that these updates, whilst enlightening, aren’t entirely comprehensive. As the three previous games ended up having far more units in the game than was initially disclosed. We’ve listed all the units and their respective pilots announced thus far below.
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| Super Dimension Century Orguss |
| Orguss (Kei) |
| Orguss II (Orson) |
| Naikik (Athena) |
| Mobile Suit Z Gundam |
| Z Gundam (Camille) |
| Hyakushiki (Quattro) |
| Dijeh (Amuro) |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Char’s Counterattack |
| Nu Gundam (Amuro) |
| Crossbone Gundam |
| Crossbone Gundam X1 (Kinkaid/Seabook) |
| Crossbone Gundam X3 (Tobia) |
| Gundam Seed Destiny |
| Destiny Gundam (Shin) |
| Strike Freedom Gundam (Kira) |
| Infinite Justice Gundam (Athrun) |
| Full Metal Panic! |
| ARX-7 Arbalest (Sousuke) |
| M9 (Melissa) |
| M9 (Kurtz) |
| Bonta-Kun |
| Overman King Gainer |
| King Gainer (Gainer) |
| Dominator (Cynthia) |
| Code Geass R2 |
| Lancelot Conquista (Suzaku) |
| Lancelot Albion (Suzaku) |
| Guren Aerial-Type (Karen) |
| Guren Seiten 8 Elements (Karen) |
| Shinkirou (Zero) |
| Akatsuki Command Model C.C. Custom (C.C.) |
| Aquarion |
| Solar Aquarion (Apollo) |
| Aquarion Mars (Sirius) |
| Aquarion Luna (Silvia) |
| Macross Zero |
| VF-0A (Shin) |
| Macross Frontier |
| VF-25F (Alto) |
| VF-25F Super Pack (Alto) |
| VF-25F Armored Pack (Alto) |
| VF-25S (Ozma) |
| VF-25S Super Pack (Ozma) |
| VF-25S Armored Pack (Ozma) |
| VF-25G (Michael) |
| VF-25G Sniper Pack (Michael) |
| RVF-25 (Luca) |
| RVF-25 Super Pack (Luca) |
| Queadlun Rea (Klan) |
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I’m beyond ecstatic to see the underappreciated Dijeh from Zeta Gundam is making an appearance. I wonder if it’ll be a land-only unit, like it was in the series.
I’m not sure if Full Metal Panic!’s listing of Bonta-kun is something I’m hoping is a joke, or if it’s something I am hoping is real.
I was always genuinely interested in how they’re gonna hand-wave letting arm slaves fly when they don’t have any visible boosters. More so now that they’re bringing in ones that don’t even have Lambda Drivers.
More importantly I just hope the mission variety is even half as good as the original ACE.
I’m not expecting any additional units beyond those announced. If this is going to be a testbed game, the best I would expect in the way of “hidden” units would be major enemy units, like say the Venom from Full Metal Panic, the X2 from Crossbone, or the Tristan from Code Geass. Honestly, I’m reserving my most significant excitement or disappointment for the Banpresto Original units that have yet to be announced, since I’ll probably spend a decent amount of game time using them.