Rearmed, reloaded, and ready to kick ass
Like many in the series before it, For Answers places you in control of a giant mech. You are then thrown into about 50 missions, and 30 arena fights. Along the way you will be able to upgrade and change your mech piece by piece as you progress through the game. You can also head online with your mech and tell the world who's boss. You can do one-on-one, two vs two, 2 teams of four, or go for the grand daddy of them all and go into an eight man free for all.
Where For Answers differes is its newer features. For Answers adds a new type of weapons ammuntion that will now damage your oppenent's Primal Armor, which acts as the shield for your mech. This new ammo eats at Primal Armor faster than regular ammo, and helps leave them open to other types of pain. The second addition is Assualt Armor. With the correct parts you can call out a 360 degree explosion to blast nearby enemies, but at the same time will leave you completely without any Primal Armor and wide open to any attack. The much asked for, online co-op jumps in on the latest intalment. Now if you are stuck on a mission or just want to waste everything that moves with a buddy, just drop her/him a message and shot till your spend. And its final and biggest feature is the Giant Arms Forts. Taking a page from its cousin Chromhounds, For Answers will have your little mech face off against huge and towering monsters. Each Arms Fort has its own weakness and method to bring it down. And each fort is bigger and badder than the rest.
For Answers brings alot of new ideas to the series, but all and all it is the same concept of you and your mech agianst everything. Not that is a bad thing, it's just that is what most people will say and not like about it. Another regretable moment in the golden box is that each mission is extremely short. On average most missions and arena fights only last about 3 to 5 minutes. Not really a problem for most players seeing as you will be on the edge of your seat the entire time. For Answers is a crazy good fun for the mech head in us all. Its depth and customization give players countless options to tune and tweak their mech to their playing style. Enemies will get smarter and tough as you go through and battles will get better and better. And even after you beat it the first time, you will unlock hard mode, where you can truly put your skills to the test. Aside from the short mission life, Armored Core: For Answers is the best mech game out on the shelves right now. Besides, chicks dig giant robots.