Robot Warlords screenshots

The game's main menu follows an animated introduction

The game's configuration screen allows the player to toggle some effects on/off. The controls cannot be redefined

Story introduces the characters in a long conversation<br>There's the wise old professor, strong Yuzo Tokunaga, pretty Yoko, Masami Honda from West Point and others

Starting in Story Mode: This is the Bullet repair facility in Odaiba. Real pictures are inserted into the narrative in a few places. The following conversation sees the personnel recruited

The team is initially less than willing to fight the rebels but Kazuma's charm wins them round

The briefing for mission one

Following the mission briefing the player enters the game's lobby area where they select the pilots, and customise the Bullets prior to entering the mission

From the game's Lobby area the player can enter the Garage where the Bullets are customised, coloured and named

This screen shows the installed battle techniques

The battle is turn based. Each character first must move into position, which is a two phase process<br>Movement can be in Normal mode or Turbo mode as shown here

Once the player has decided on the movement phase they then decide on the attack phase. If they find that they cannot attack their chosen target the movement phase can be repeated

When all the characters actions have been programmed the player initiates the action. Beyond this point they are committed but even here everything can be undone and the process repeated

Once the player commits a character to move and/or attack there's a short action sequence. These sequences are optional.

The result of this attack was no damage to the enemy at all

Here a battle technique is being combined with an attack.

The weapon selection screen shows the status of the enemy pilot targeted and the expected hit ratio

Occasionally the video sequence shows a night vision pilots view of the action

When an enemy craft is destroyed the pilot gains experience points

Emergency Restoration is a battle technique that has to be selected and installed. It can prove very useful

End of mission. This is followed by a mission score screen, usually some more tech becomes available and then there's another long conversation leading to the next mission

After a mission is complete Prof. Jonouchi does his 'Bad Santa' act and gives us a pretty new gun

Robot Warlords

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