Battle Engine Aquila for Xbox Reviews by Gamers

Read: If you like arcade mech/flight sims, and you love challenging games (very hard), deffinately check this game out.

I love how this game challenges the whits of the player. You cannot just didddle daddle around in missions. The battles are huge, tons of enemies step up to the plate, and its up to you to cleverly complete mission objectives.

This game plays like a first person Gun Metal (its another mech game...). At its core, your mech has a hybrid Energy Sheild. This energy sustains your sheilds as well as provides energy for plasma weapons and flight ability. If you unleash hordes of energy weapons, prepare to die, your hull will be exposed to damage. Players must balance using plasma and bullet fire weapons. Especially if you are flying. Flying your mech uses up energy, thus unleashing plasma weapons in flight mode wastes flying time. Your energy sheild does regenerate, but if you are getting hit by enemy gun fire, it will lose regernated energy for every hit.

At first this game seems very straightforward, but as the missions quickly become challenging, the player will need to recognize and execute good strategy. You will need to learn from failed mission strategies in this game as you will most likely fail the first time you try the later missions. Whatever you do, do not ignore bombers in this game :).

While this game is similar to other games, the games style, and direction are unique enough to warrant a rent or buy. Good luck finding a copy to buy though, this game had a limited print run :).

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