Website: http://mirrormoon.org/projects/windom
Download: US Mirror

Description:
Giant Robots! Totally freaking awesome, right? Well, yeah...

This game follows in the footsteps of Virtua On and Silver Knights by being an arcade-type action game which puts you in the cockpit of Giant Robots. Visually, each robot is based off of models from the Gundam Universe (Mostly Gundam Seed), but the non-copyright naming scheme they have gone with names each robot after a version of Windows (Windom's) or Linux.

The controls seem to be a bit easier to pickup then other games of this type, which may make it a bit more appealing for people who like the idea but aren't used to this style of play.

There are only two things holding this game back from an even higher score:
1) There is little in the way of mode selection. There's a simple survival mode with a high score board, and then two team modes (one deathmatch type, one "kill the big airship" type) which are only good for trying to burnout your system, as there are no ways to configure these team modes, and the player number is ridiculous. By starting a server, you can have some mild configuration over the game, but it's still limited.

2) Limited content. Comes with two pilots by default (but they are cats, so thumbs up), and only 4 maps (2, if you consider that three of the maps are the same city at different times of day). But at least with 14 robots there's enough to keep it interesting. Hopefully with future updates more content will be added. For now, we just have to be happy with the ability to customize our own pilots (which is basically just a picture and voices / taunts)

I mentioned a server, and that's because this game has online multiplay. Because of the limited single player, multiplay is where this shines, and the game is well suited for it.

So, with Giant Robots, destructible buildings, flying mother ships, and customizable pilots, this game is definatly worth a shot. If there's an update with significant change, the game may even get a score upgrade. :D

note: The version linked to is a English patched version of the game. The original is in Japanese only, but Mirror Moon is an organization which works to translate games for English audiences, and as the original game is updated, they will continue updating the English version.

Score: 3/5

Labels: arcade, Giant, Gundam, Robots, Virtua On