WarTech: Senko Ronde for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

Let's get this out of the way first. This game deserves two different reviews. One for the game itself (originally a Japanese arcade game), the other for it's delivery to America.

The game itself is actually a load of fun for the small handful of people that it's intended for. If you like fighting games (Street Fighter and the like), shoot-em-ups (Ikaruga, Raiden, etc.), and your main way of playing games is competitively against other people and not so much against the computer (usually something that goes hand-in-hand with fans of fighting games), then this game may very well be for you. One basic example of this game would be if Geometry Wars had some sort of 1 vs 1 battle mode with a lifebar.

Graphically, the game isn't the best. It looks like it could've been done on an XBox or GameCube with little to no trouble. But for fans of purely competitive games, graphics usually take a backseat to deep competitive gameplay, and this has that. Single player, however, will wear out quickly, as it will with most any game designed for competitive play (fighting games come to mind). Sound and music aren't bad, though everything is in Japanese and you don't really bother to read when you're dodging 2,430 bullets. Controls are solid, though take a bit to get used to. Which comes to the second part of this review.

This game has some of the worst presentation I've seen. It reminds me of one other awesome game that had bad presentation: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. The lack of tutorial mode in a game with so much depth makes any newcomer view the game as straight-up button mashing garbage. Imagine Soul Calibur or Tekken with no movelist and no one around to give you an idea on what you're doing. Ultimately you're down to only trial-and-error or just mashing the controller and hoping that's enough to do something. Coupled with a $60 price tag when it first came out (now it's like 10 or less) and you can see why people hate it.

Game = 7 or 8. Presentation = 2.

Well, I'm just not quite sure where to begin with this. The game itself, I'm told, is a Japanese game. I figured it was another mecha game.

Alright, I guess I'll start off with the bad points. The game's got what seems to be a minimal story line for each character, but otherwise what's on the box is all the back story you're going to get.

The Controllers scheme is pretty basic, butit's really boxy, think old school tomb raider. X is attack, Y is secondary, B is bash, a is boost, Right trigger is shield, left trigger is B.O.S.S mode. It's got a good style, but it's horribly implemented.

The voices are all in Japanese, while that's all well and good for the people who enjoy it, and can understand it, the text they put in as a translation is small, and thus hard to understand for people with small T.Vs.
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The good: Well, There's not much I can say on the good bit's here. The artwork is the primary bit of goodness here, it's got a classic cartoony style that looks like it belongs in a 64 game, though the character artwork and picture's are all drawn in Anime style.

The game itself, while it's boring and repetitive, and horribly short, is not bad for a mecha fighter with such horribly shortcomings. It's hard to understand, and harder to stay entertained with. It's easy to understand how people dislike the game, it's a great time waster if you have a friend who also has the game, but the chances are slim.

The style of the game is quite inventive, yet at the same time very worn out, it's basically, as in another review, street fighter meets mecha and guns.