Hello, I'm Adrian, and welcome to the sequel to one of my most popular Top 10's. In those comments
I saw suggestions for other Mech Games that are also great, so I decided to make a follow up
video. Here are 10 more excellent games where you pilot a giant robot, mech, or mecha. Let's begin!
This fighting game is easy to get into as the controls are mapped very intuitively
on the triggers and bumpers. You can string together individual moves for quick combos
as well. The stages all have their unique themes and parts that are destructible.
Each character also has an awesome super attack. A personal big selling point for me was the fact
that the game features Ultraman DLC where you are given the option to control none other than
Ultraman from the Netflix series. Granted that he hasn't turned into a giant in that show just yet,
but whose to say that couldn't happen in the future? I also enjoyed this
character right here since he looks like a dinosaur. And not only that he does the
So yeah. Giant Mech's and the legendary push kick? Game of the year.
The mechs in this game operate like jets that just happen to be giant robots.
They fly at blisteringly fast speeds, have an arsenal of weapons at their disposal,
and deal with multiple targets in the air. Although there really isn't much customization,
as you progress through the story you will pilot a variety of mechs with different weapons.
However, it would be nice if the badguys didn't look so small,
as most of the time they are about the same size as the crosshair. No, not that crosshair!
For its time, the presentation of this game is truly astounding. You're treated to a soundtrack
clearly inspired by so many mech animes with some top notch 16 bit cutscenes. The gameplay
itself is also pretty awesome as you got an integrated jetpack, powerful weapons,
and can even get out of your mech at will. As you progress through the game you will control other
mechs and they each have their own unique design and function as well. So if you're looking for a
classic mech sidescrolling game straight from the nineties, you can't go wrong with Metal Warriors
published by Konami and developed by...Lucasarts!? I guess the lightsaber makes perfect sense now
Lost Planet is a unique series in the sense that each entry was pretty different from one another.
The first one, and the one that earns a place on this list, is kind of a survival shooter
as you are constantly losing thermal energy and must keep replenishing it to move on.
The mechs you pilot are nothing short of awesome. There's actually a great variety to the mechs you
control and their scenarios are a blast to play. The sequel, Lost Planet 2, focused primarily on
being a co-op game, while Lost Planet 3 was a semi open world third person shooter, with the mech
being a first person experience. So with three different kinds of action within the franchise,
Lost Planet is thus the three flavored sherbert in the mech pantheon of gaming.
You jump into the action right away with a fun guided tutorial and the brief cut scenes in the
level help set the mood. Sure, at the end of the day you're dealing with a bunch of anime tropes,
but it's fun to have a bit of context behind all the blasting. Gameplay consists of close quarters
attacks, boosting, and firing at several enemies with different weapons. You confront challenging
bosses along the way with the first one being a screen filling behemoth of a mech. There's
quite a bit of customization too in order to make yourself more powerful, and there are segments
of the game where you get out of the mech and run around on foot. The games presentation is also top
notch and the anime art style present throughout the games cutscenes works incredibly well too.
With an incredible library of games to choose from in this franchise, I searched online to find
a modern Gundam game that everyone unanimously agreed was great and eventually found Gundam
Breaker 3 Break Edition. Its main story line acknowledges that you are essentially controlling
miniature mechs, or Gunplas, which is short for gundam plastic models. As expected,
a huge part of the fun factor in the game is from the robust customization options available to you.
You can swap out every major piece in your mech and customize it to your hearts content,
creating original designs of your own or making them look like characters that exist in other
franchises, such a my Grimlock inspired one. The gameplay loop revolves around completing
missions in which you gain more parts in order to better equip your mech for the next mission. The
combat system is simple to learn with heavy and light attacks, an option to launch enemies into
the air to continue attacking them, and a couple rechargeable super attacks. At the end of the day
though, your enjoyment of the game really depends on how into Gundam you are, and if you can't wait
to toil away at creating your perfect Gunpla, and your shelves just can't fit anymore of them,
it really doesn't get much better than this. Much like Gundam, Mech Warrior is a longstanding
franchise that finds its roots in the universe of BattleTech. It can be difficult to obtain the
earlier entries in the franchise, so I went with recommending the most recent title available on
several platforms, Mech Warrior 5 Mercenaries. Mech Warrior 5 is not so much a Mech game as it
is a Mech sim, if you can even call it that. It places a great deal of emphasis on mech
customization giving you a level of control in equipping and fine tuning parts rarely seen in
other games. The controls are also extremely complex, but whether you're playing with a
controller and keyboard or gamepad, they do convey the sense that you are piloting a gigantic mech.
War Tech Fighters feels like a playable Saturday morning mech cartoon. From the rockin soundtrack,
to the well done intro sequence that plays before each level where you blast out into the
vast openness of space, it all feels just right. The gameplay loop is very familiar to the genre
as you engage in a series of missions to then upgrade and customize your mech to then engage
in more missions. During each level you can attack your enemies from afar with a variety of weapons
or defeat them up close with a range of really great takedown animations including awesome stuff
like flying sidekicks. Your enemies will also lock on to you pretty easily, so using your shield
wisely is essential. A definite highlight for me is that you can engage in one on one battles with
enemy mechs, with the game switching into an intense swordfight minigame. The customization
options are pretty great too and have their own unique design to them. That being said,
there is one annoying thing the game does and that is occasionally asking you to find random sections
in some space pillar. It feels like stopping a really great movie to look for your keys.
In my previous Top 10 Mech Games I included the first Zone of the Enders but did not include the
second one, because I remembered not liking it too much. But I read your comments suggesting
I give it another shot, and I found myself enjoying it a lot more the second time around
nearly 7 years after I had last played it. It's an extremely well made sequel from every corner.
The gamepaly is just as refined, intense, and enjoyable as the first entry with slight
modifications to make it even better. You shoot different projectile attacks from afar, and have
sword attacks up close where you can launch your enemy upwards or downards at the end of a combo.
You also have a host of incredibly cool sub weapons to play around with during combat along
with a refined targeting system for taking out multiple smaller enemies at once. And during your
second playthough you can have access to all those sub weapons right from the beginning if you wish.
T he protagonist is also a brand new guy this time around and his story is actually pretty compelling
as Jehuty is not only a cool mech, but turns into a literal life support system for him.
If you're looking for a top tier Mech RPG experience with a great story
and excellent gameplay mechanics, you need to play Front Mission 3,
the very first Front Mission released outside of Japan, and one of the best in the series.
This game takes all that intricate customization, challenging gameplay, and great mechanics from the
series and turns it to 11. It's Armored Core at its...um...core..but the games
pace and action increase considerably. So if you want classic Armored Core gameplay,
and the ability to truly fly, I highly recommend Armored Core 4 Answer.