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Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is a 2012 action game developed by FromSoftware and published by Capcom for the Xbox 360. It is a sequel to both Steel Battalion and Steel Battalion: Line of Contact on the Xbox. Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor requires the Kinect sensor and uses a combination of an Xbox 360 controller and the Kinect for gameplay. The game was widely panned by critics, mainly due to the Kinect's inability to properly read player movements.
The gameplay takes place inside a tank-like bipedal robot, known as a Vertical Tank (VT, veet, or Victor Tango), which the player and their crew control. The player is tasked with completing series of missions, which include destroying set targets, clearing areas of enemies or providing defense for military units. During these missions, the player must monitor enemy movements while coordinating with their crew members inside the robot, dealing with both interior and exterior threats. The player's crew, and other military units, can be killed, injured or suffer from other problems during battle, forcing the player to stay on alert and improvise during situations; killed crew members would also be replaced with other crew members, or their position would be left empty in consecutive battles, which would cause the player to have to fill in for their duties.
The game uses Kinect software, which coordinates the player's movements to their actions in the game. However, the limited control of the Kinect software combined with the need for precise movements in-game led to the game being nearly unplayable for some, due to the erratic and unresponsive controls.
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor takes place in the year 2083, 63 years after the "Datacide," a catastrophic event in which the world's supply of computer technology is destroyed due to a silicon-eating microbe that started destroying all microprocessors in 2020. As a result, military technology is reduced to primitive weapons, including the Vertical Tank, a large bipedal robot which is operated by a four-man crew: a pilot, left loader who doubles as an engine starter, a radio operator, and a right loader.
Because of its extensive industrial complex, China becomes the new world superpower, taking over the United Nations, and soon begins to dominate the world, both economically and militarily. On November 19, 2081, China, supported by the Chinese-led UN, launched a savage but swift blitzkrieg-style invasion against the United States, reducing the country from fifty to eight states: Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and the new elevated state of Puerto Rico (with San Juan as the new capital of the US), before a ceasefire was declared. In the game, the Chinese-led UN is colloquially referred to as "Uncle" by the United States military.
The story follows Sergeant Powers, a VT pilot, and the crew of his VT as they battle UN forces. The initial team consists of Natch, Rainer, and Parker. During the course of the game, the crew sometimes switches from different members of Powers' platoon who may or may not be killed during gameplay, which may affect the crew throughout the game.
On March 17, 2083, sixteen months after the China-UN invasion of America, the United States military runs an amphibious landing operation to retake the now occupied New York City using Vertical Tanks as the primary attack force. With the VTs' help, the troops are able to take New York City and establish a foothold on the mainland. After clearing New York City of the remaining enemy troops, Sergeant Powers and his crew are tasked with a series of missions, including the destruction of several ammunition depots, a radio array, a string of decoys to draw the enemy's attention, and the capture of a naval harbor in Norfolk, Virginia to disrupt the maritime supply lines of the Chinese-UN, which is mounting a heavy counter-attack. After a vital mission to retrieve a microfilm from an American spy in the UN, it is revealed that the UN is developing a new generation of VT called the Heavy Vertical Tank (HVT) in Berlin (after a war in Europe, Germany joined the UN, and is now a close partner with China), whose prototype proved highly successful in destroying Russian forces Siberia. American citizens are systematically captured and sent to Berlin as "test subjects."
The US military eventually decide to launch an offensive on Berlin. Since the closest remaining US forces situated near Europe are stranded in Libya, the military decides to mount an assault on Colorado Springs, where the main airbase of the UN in North America is situated in order to stop the bombardments on New York City and to secure the supply lines to Libya. After taking control of the UN airport, the battalion is shifted to Morocco, where the US forces are preparing an assault on the Gibraltar Strait to cross into Europe and reach Berlin. However, during a supply run in a UN-controlled refinery, the battalion is ambushed by the HVT, which kills the battalion leader, Lieutenant Straw, before the company is able to damage it, destroying the entire refinery in the process. Rejoining the US forces in Libya, Powers is promoted to Lieutenant and leader of the battalion and is tasked with a series of missions before leading the attack on the Gibraltar Tunnel. During one of the missions, Powers' battalion manages to seize a damaged HVT, revealing that the HVT is piloted by only one person in the cockpit with another in a hidden seat, who, the US intelligence finds out from the enemy's body, underwent a series of physiological modifications and is connected with the HVT by a series of cables. During the attack on the Gibraltar Tunnel, the US forces destroy all UN enemy forces in the area (including one of the HVTs). With this victory and the fact that the Russian Army is launching a massive offensive against the Chinese-UN forces in Europe along the border of Warsaw, Poland, the UN has no choice but to withdraw its troops from Spain and lift the pressure on America by retreating its East Coast-based forces to face the Russians.
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Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is a 2012 action game developed by FromSoftware and published by Capcom for the Xbox 360. It is a sequel to both Steel Battalion and Steel Battalion: Line of Contact on the Xbox. Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor requires the Kinect sensor and uses a combination of an Xbox 360 controller and the Kinect for gameplay. The game was widely panned by critics, mainly due to the Kinect's inability to properly read player movements.
The gameplay takes place inside a tank-like bipedal robot, known as a Vertical Tank (VT, veet, or Victor Tango), which the player and their crew control. The player is tasked with completing series of missions, which include destroying set targets, clearing areas of enemies or providing defense for military units. During these missions, the player must monitor enemy movements while coordinating with their crew members inside the robot, dealing with both interior and exterior threats. The player's crew, and other military units, can be killed, injured or suffer from other problems during battle, forcing the player to stay on alert and improvise during situations; killed crew members would also be replaced with other crew members, or their position would be left empty in consecutive battles, which would cause the player to have to fill in for their duties.
The game uses Kinect software, which coordinates the player's movements to their actions in the game. However, the limited control of the Kinect software combined with the need for precise movements in-game led to the game being nearly unplayable for some, due to the erratic and unresponsive controls.
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor takes place in the year 2083, 63 years after the "Datacide," a catastrophic event in which the world's supply of computer technology is destroyed due to a silicon-eating microbe that started destroying all microprocessors in 2020. As a result, military technology is reduced to primitive weapons, including the Vertical Tank, a large bipedal robot which is operated by a four-man crew: a pilot, left loader who doubles as an engine starter, a radio operator, and a right loader.
Because of its extensive industrial complex, China becomes the new world superpower, taking over the United Nations, and soon begins to dominate the world, both economically and militarily. On November 19, 2081, China, supported by the Chinese-led UN, launched a savage but swift blitzkrieg-style invasion against the United States, reducing the country from fifty to eight states: Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and the new elevated state of Puerto Rico (with San Juan as the new capital of the US), before a ceasefire was declared. In the game, the Chinese-led UN is colloquially referred to as "Uncle" by the United States military.
The story follows Sergeant Powers, a VT pilot, and the crew of his VT as they battle UN forces. The initial team consists of Natch, Rainer, and Parker. During the course of the game, the crew sometimes switches from different members of Powers' platoon who may or may not be killed during gameplay, which may affect the crew throughout the game.
On March 17, 2083, sixteen months after the China-UN invasion of America, the United States military runs an amphibious landing operation to retake the now occupied New York City using Vertical Tanks as the primary attack force. With the VTs' help, the troops are able to take New York City and establish a foothold on the mainland. After clearing New York City of the remaining enemy troops, Sergeant Powers and his crew are tasked with a series of missions, including the destruction of several ammunition depots, a radio array, a string of decoys to draw the enemy's attention, and the capture of a naval harbor in Norfolk, Virginia to disrupt the maritime supply lines of the Chinese-UN, which is mounting a heavy counter-attack. After a vital mission to retrieve a microfilm from an American spy in the UN, it is revealed that the UN is developing a new generation of VT called the Heavy Vertical Tank (HVT) in Berlin (after a war in Europe, Germany joined the UN, and is now a close partner with China), whose prototype proved highly successful in destroying Russian forces Siberia. American citizens are systematically captured and sent to Berlin as "test subjects."
The US military eventually decide to launch an offensive on Berlin. Since the closest remaining US forces situated near Europe are stranded in Libya, the military decides to mount an assault on Colorado Springs, where the main airbase of the UN in North America is situated in order to stop the bombardments on New York City and to secure the supply lines to Libya. After taking control of the UN airport, the battalion is shifted to Morocco, where the US forces are preparing an assault on the Gibraltar Strait to cross into Europe and reach Berlin. However, during a supply run in a UN-controlled refinery, the battalion is ambushed by the HVT, which kills the battalion leader, Lieutenant Straw, before the company is able to damage it, destroying the entire refinery in the process. Rejoining the US forces in Libya, Powers is promoted to Lieutenant and leader of the battalion and is tasked with a series of missions before leading the attack on the Gibraltar Tunnel. During one of the missions, Powers' battalion manages to seize a damaged HVT, revealing that the HVT is piloted by only one person in the cockpit with another in a hidden seat, who, the US intelligence finds out from the enemy's body, underwent a series of physiological modifications and is connected with the HVT by a series of cables. During the attack on the Gibraltar Tunnel, the US forces destroy all UN enemy forces in the area (including one of the HVTs). With this victory and the fact that the Russian Army is launching a massive offensive against the Chinese-UN forces in Europe along the border of Warsaw, Poland, the UN has no choice but to withdraw its troops from Spain and lift the pressure on America by retreating its East Coast-based forces to face the Russians.