Chromehounds for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

Chromehounds is one of those games that people either love or hate; there is no middle ground here.

The single player game is just training for the online play, so if you don't have Xbox live or don't plan to play online, just skip this game.

Online, however, is the real gem here. The main draw of the online mode is the persistent world war going on, in which you choose a nation and each battle you win earns your nation capture points for that area. Once you have enough capture points, that area is taken over by your nation and you can move on to attack further into their territory, the ultimate goal of which is to take their capital, effectively eliminating them from the current war. Once one of the 3 nations ousts the other two, a new war starts.

The greatest thing about the online play is that there is so much customization. Yes, there are 6 role-types that everything tends to fall into, but that is more of a guideline than anything else. There is nothing stopping you from making a scout with heavy guns except for the weight that each chassis can hold. This makes online games fresh and interesting as you never know really what might be facing.

There are some bugs, but Sega/From Software seem to be working on that. Connecting to other people can be frustrating at times for various reasons. You can play against bots, but there is no way to reserve a game being set up for this, so sometimes when you do manage to find a game the other people duck out. Other problems could be people's network settings, but there are times when some people can connect to a game and others can't. The other big bug can cause a player's money to go down to -999 million. This is supposed to be taken care of this week though.

If you can find a good squad that you get along with, the problems with the game become that much more insignificant compared to the great game play.

If you like mech games and prefer a more tactical game than your average FPS, then this could be it.