Robot wars on the horizon!

Cover scan of PlayStation 2's Dai 3 Ji Super Robot Wars Alpha

What a great way to start the month of July! No news is good news, they say, but to hear about a new Super Robot Wars game coming out somewhere around this month is surely music to the ears. Well, mine anyway. Dai 3 Ji Super Robot Wars Alpha is the latest instalment of the hugely popular SRW franchise, where robots across multiple platforms - games & anime - meet to battle it out with the bad guys who have joined forces to provide resistance to the heroic intentions of the good guys.

Expect robots from animes such as Getter Robo, Evangelion and Mazinger Z to games like Virtual On to grace the third outing of SRW. Gameplay-wise, it's a strategy game and players as well as the AI will battle it out on a turn-based combat environment. The beauty of SRW has to be the engagement fight, where the animation of the attacks between the good and evil side are incredibly amazing.

More on Dai 3 Ji Super Robot Wars Alpha soon. In the meantime, do check out Banpresto's official SRW website at http://www.suparobo.jp

Let's hope you can read Japanese though! :)


Update: Looks like Banpresto's already have a release date for Japan. Expect to see Dai 3 Ji Super Robot Wars Alpha around the 14th of July 2005... and subsequently my review and personal notes if there's any major changes made to the latest SRW instalment!