MS Gundam: Operation Troy alive and kicking

by Terrence Stasse { Apr 4th 2008 at 4:30PM }

Thought by many to have been canceled, the newest Gundam game has just been given its Japanese release date. As a game that borrows a great deal from games such as Battlefield, it's a bit strange to see that Mobile Suit Gundam: Operation Troy isn't seeing a worldwide simultaneous release date. Announced via a press release on the Japanese version of xbox.com, Operation Troy will be seeing release June 26 in Japan.

As noted, the game is inspired by Battlefield, but replacing the copters and tanks are, as you likely guessed, Mobile Suits (nerd fact: not all Mobile Suits are Gundams). Despite the game's abysmal graphics, an open-world FPS with properly-scaled Mobile Suits has a lot of potential. And even though the Gundam games don't exactly have a history of exceptional quality, we'd like to give the devs a chance to get it wrong before we rip into it. So, here's hoping for an eventual localization.

Gallery: MS Gundam OP Troy

Tags: gundam, mobile-suit-gundam-operation-troy, namco-bandai

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ryan @ Apr 4th 2008 4:47PM

zomg, is that the new Army Men game?! i am soo there!

NATO_Duke @ Apr 4th 2008 5:41PM

I'll be damned - it does look like that. Thanks for making me laugh!

mcwattersm @ Apr 4th 2008 5:57PM

Thats what I thought too... graphics are kinda last gen.

JAKEJAX @ Apr 4th 2008 6:20PM

I love gundam.

ScallionN @ Apr 5th 2008 5:23AM

I know I'll sound like a tool, but I'll buy it just to ride around in a Gouf. It looks a lot like that Dreamcast game, Rise From the Ashes, where you pilot GMs.

BananaBoat @ Apr 5th 2008 9:59AM

I bought the 30 previous Gundam games, so this time should be no different. Honestly I did think this thing was canceled, as I haven't heard any news of it for atleast the past year (since it was panned by various game magazines etc). The concept is brilliant, there is no doubt about that (actually getting in the Mobile Suits? That's been every Gundam fans dream for decades) but I have no doubt that this game will eventually just be one more game in my collection of many Gundam games.

Oh, and inserting the term "Nerd Fact" into an article on a video games website, is a bit like calling the kettle black. Natch. Even if most people do have no idea that all of the "Mechs" aren't actually Gundams, but are rather all "Mobile Suits" with some of them being Gundams.

Man I wish they'd scrap this, rebuild it on the Unreal 3 Engine, and put it out in like 2011. Actually, I'd like it if they'd just release it now, give me my fix, and THEN make the same game on Unreal 3.