While giant robot customization is nothing fundamentally new, Custom Mech Wars intends to push the concept from a particularly whimsical angle, not to say downright parodic. The Omega personalization system gives free rein to one’s imagination to assemble machines while cheerfully crossing the limits of the grotesque. Between the extremely over-armed robot, the tank mounted on two extremely elegant legs for him or even the machine in the shape of triceratops, the game is already betting everything on the possibility of sending absurd concepts onto the battlefield. . We are obviously and voluntarily far from the oiled and professional mechanics of a Armored Core 6of which the success will perhaps make a date in the history of mecha games.
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” You’re not limited to bipedal builds, you can freely customize your mechs to include multiple heads, legs, and arms in positions and angles of your choosing. Depending on the parts you use, the parameters vary wildly, allowing you to build mechs with the abilities and combat styles you want. “, can we read on the Steam page of the game, knowing that Custom Mech Wars is also announced for PS5 as part of a worldwide release in late 2023/early 2024.
The concept wouldn’t take on its full flavor without the ability to play online to show others the fruit of his deranged mind. As in an EDF, the label’s flagship series, it will therefore be possible to cooperate online up to four to accomplish the missions of the story. A story that will involve a host of actors (Yosuke Omomo, Akira Sekine, Kotono Mitsuishi, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Lynn, Yû Maeda, Mina Mizuki, Emi Uema, Shunsuke Todo).
Custom Mech Warswhose official website is live here, will be playable at Tokyo Game Show 2023 from September 21 to 24.