BREAK ARTS II

Building and customizing your own mech is pretty fun, but the actual racing is a letdown. The controls feel stiff and all over the place, and it's hard to enjoy the races when you're constantly crashing. There's a cool idea here, especially if you like tinkering with builds, but the racing itself gets old pretty quickly.

Is this game a good racing game? Not really. Play Forza or something. Or Mario Kart. Is this game a good mecha fighting game? Also not really. Play Armored Core 6 instead. Is this game a good mecha construction game? Absolutely. The racing mechanics are ... well, they're fine. They're a serviceable way to use the stats attached to your mech and you can kinda use them as inspiration on your builds. But for me, the point of the game is the building. You're here to build a mech with hilarious amounts of customisation and bring to life that weird homebrew Gundam or AC. It's a bit like legos but for mecha. And you can actually drive the lego after you're done building it. In terms of value, I'd say it's decent. It's not a 200 hour game or anything but you could definitely sink some time in if you're the target audience. Definitely worth grabbing if it's on sale and you're craving the mech building experience. Otherwise, probably just save up for AC6.

The game is absolutely broken. Controller inputs are recommended for the racing mode, but can't be used in menu? And even in the racing mode, my inputs seem to do nothing.

The concept is nice but it doesn't catch my attention since i've tried 3 rounds and the tutorials weren't helpful and ui is a bit on the messy side. For me this feels like a half baked game, where it is playable but it needs some more polishing. (Using 3440*1440 btw) But hopefuly BA3 should be more intuitive with the ui, controls and tutorial. I didn't even bother modifying my mecha because it couldn't see myself playing anymore of this. And the 3 quick games I got first place cause I just push the w to go faster and steer.

Good gameplay, at best. Controls for the racing is alright. The mech customisation is the staple of this game, allowing you to use a lot of creativity when building the perfect racing machine, if you're willing to put in the effort of grinding for a few hours for the more interesting parts. I've seen a few comments on this game regarding the difficulty. I myself haven't had too much trouble with racing the AI bots after making a decent build. Maybe I haven't played enough of the game to see the true horrors that these AI bots are capable of. Edit: I'm beginning to understand the horrors now. Overall, good game, fun for a while until you realise literally nobody plays the game anymore. That's fine by me, I ain't much of a competitive person anyway.

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