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Capcom is one of the largest
publishers and developers in the world, they are
also big fans of Sega. So why shouldn't they make
games for the Dreamcast? They are expecting to
release around 10 fighting and action games for
the Dreamcast in the year 2000. Two of them are
something different from the other Capcom
fighters. Capcom is used to making odd fighting
games, like a mech warrior type of fighting. But
that all changed with Tech Romancer(Kikaioh) and
Plasma Sword(Star Gladiator 2). Both games were
considered 1999's sleeper hit fighting game.
This game has been out on
arcades for quite a while now, but very few
people know about the game. Go back to the time
when you went to the arcade center to play Soul
Calibur or Crazy Taxi. Now do you remember a odd
mech armor fighting game? You know, the one that
nobody played? Well, that game was Tech Romancer.
For those people who played this game, I'm pretty
sure you loved the game. Like most people I
didn't play Tech Romancer at my arcade center,
because the game looked so wierd. I would just go
on and play Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur, Marvel vs.
Capcom or some other game.
So what's the big deal about
this game you ask? Well, first of all, the damage
meter is one thing you'll instantly notice in the
gameplay. The damage meter is one the vertical
ends of the screen. I really shouldn't be calling
it a damage meter, because instead of decreasing
when you get hit, it increases until it is filled
up. When its at the top, you or your oppenant
loses the battle. Still confused? Well so am I.
It gets more confusing, if you stand back and
wait, a yellow part of "damage meter"
will show up. This means the mech is getting
repaired, but here's the tricky part. If you get
hit while being repaired, the yellow part turns
into a hit.
Since your a 500 ton cyberbot,
in a city, you can step on little houses or
buildings, or you can just shoot them. Some of
the houses or buildings will have items that can
be found after crushing the apartment or
building. Some of the weapons include, damage
repair units, defense and offense upgrades,
weapon upgrades, and speed upgrades.
The controls on Tech Romancer
is pretty simple to learn, there is one button
for guard, two to attack your oppenant, and
another for jumping. Using these buttons, you can
create amazing combo's and super moves. Using a
combination of the buttons, you can even dodge
the oppenant. You'll be doing all this using a
huge cyberbot or Mech fighter.
This isn't really a very
anticipated game, but things might change. After
all, sites like IGN, Dreamcast.net, Segaweb and
other sites have given the japanese version of
this game very good ratings.
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Tech
Romancer
Publisher:
Capcom
Developer:
Capcom
# of players: 2
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