Armored Core: For Answer for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

Wow...where do I start with this one!? First of all let me just say that I am in no way a "graphics ho" when it comes to games. I have been a gamer for decades and I have played my fair share of amazing looking pieces of rubbish! While at the same time playing horrible looking gems. Perfect example? I could pick-up Final Fantasy VII right now and have a great ol' time playing despite the PS1 graphics. Now am I justifying myself as not being a graphics ho? Well because I don't want to be accused of being one because I am choosing to place AC:FA's graphics at the top of the list of reasons NOT to play this game! Even though it's on a 7-gen console and being pumped out on a HDTV there was nothing that remotely even looked good on this game. It looks like a PS2 game with PS3/360 lighting effects. Next up the controls. How would you like to man the controls to a giant brick? How would you like to play a 7-gen video game that has the controls of a tank game from an Atari 2600 in 1982? The movements of your mech are the worst of ANY Armored Core game ever made! They're unresponsive, they don't feel like you're connected at all, the controls do nothing to make you feel like you're controlling the most advanced vehicle and tool-of-war ever created by man. And therein lies the problem...the makers of AC:FA did absolutely nothing to make this game feel like it was something special. I had been dying to see what an Armored Core title would look & play like at this stage of the current generations of consoles. Not only have they made zero ground, they actually went back a few hundred steps with this title. Make it compelling! Make it feel like I'm driving a giant bipedal armored battle tank! Give me a goal at the end of a mission that makes me feel like I accomplished something. And last but definitely not least...try to make it look sharp. You see even if they only managed to hit a couple of those requests this would have been a decent game. But they did none.