Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs.
Developer(s) Namco Bandai Games
Publisher(s) Namco Bandai Games
Platform(s) Arcade
PlayStation 3
Release date(s) Arcade
  • JP September 28, 2010
PlayStation 3
  • JP December 1, 2011
Full Boost (Arcade)
  • JP April 5, 2012
Full Boost (Playstation 3)
  • JP January 30, 2014
Maxi Boost (Arcade)
  • JP March 6, 2014
Genre(s) Fighting
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer
Arcade system Namco System 357

Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. (機動戦士ガンダム エクストリームバーサス) is a 3D Arcade Fighting game and the newest in the series of Gundam VS video game series developed and published by Namco Bandai Games. It's the sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam NEXT. The game was first unveiled at the AOU 2010 and released on September 28, 2010. The game was later released on the PlayStation 3 on December 1, 2011, featuring balance tweaks.

The game's theme song is titled "The Catalyst", performed by Linkin Park. Bandai and the band also cooperated in the development of a special HGUC 1/144 RX-78GP-01-FB kit.

A sequel, Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. Full Boost (機動戦士ガンダム エクストリームバーサス フルブースト) was released in arcades on April 5, 2012. Base version includes 74 mobile suits and new ones are added every month via net updates. The theme song for Full Boost is titled FIGHT IT OUT feat. K(Pay money To my Pain), performed by both Akihiro Namba of Hi-Standard and Takeshi Ueda of AA=.

Another sequel, Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. Maxi Boost (機動戦士ガンダム エクストリームバーサス マキシブースト) was released in arcades on March 6, 2014. The game will introduce both new suits and characters as well as new game mechanics such as a revamped EX Mode and changes to forms for certain units. The theme song for Maxi Boost is titled Rave-up Tonight, performed by Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas.


Gameplay

Extreme Vs. retains the trademark gameplay of previous installments of the Gundam Vs. series, with a few adjustments and changes. During a standard arcade battle, each team is given a resource meter of 6000 points; when a mobile suit is shot down, its cost is deducted from the meter, and the first team to hit 0 loses. Each mobile suit costs 3000, 2500, 2000, or 1000 points, with higher cost machines being more powerful while cheaper machines are much weaker. A few missions, particularly boss battles, eschew this in favor of making a single machine the target and having its defeat be the goal of the stage (the player's side still has a resource meter and will lose as normal if it's depleted). In Maxi Boost, all 1000 points units is up 500 each, so it's 1500 points in total.

Gameplay makes use of four primary buttons: Shoot, Melee, Jump, and Search. There are also three sub-commands used by pressing Shoot and Melee (Sub-Weapon), Shoot and Jump (Special Shooting) and Melee and Jump (Special Melee). In addition to these, machines can have two different charge attacks, activated by holding the Shoot or Melee button until a meter on the ammunition display fills.

Extreme Vs. adds in two important gameplay changes. Extreme Action is the ability to dash-cancel one's attacks, allowing the player to string together larger and more damaging combos. Extreme Burst is a super mode, similar to older games' Awakenings, activated by pressing Shoot, Melee, and Jump together when a meter at the bottom of the screen is filled. Several machines (primarily those piloted by the protagonists of each series) also have a super-powerful Burst Attack, executed by pressing Shoot, Melee, and Jump together while Extreme Burst is active. Full Boost will give Burst Attacks to every mobile suit in the game.

The PlayStation 3 release adds Trial Mission Mode, which features a series of specific challenges that go outside the normal conditions of the game, such as destroying a set number of machines within a time limit or sinking a battleship such as the Argama or Archangel. Trial Mission Mode features a number of enemy-exclusive mobile suits from all the included series, as well as a number of new boss characters.

Playable Units

Mobile Suit Gundam

Stage: Side 7, A Baoa Qu Sector (Full Boost) BGM: "Gallant Char" by Yuji Matsuyama, "Gundam in Crisis" by Takeo Watanabe, "Tobe! Gundam" by Koh Ikeda (Full Boost)

Mobile Suit Variations

Stage: none BGM: none

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Stage: Colony Laser, New Hong Kong (Full Boost) BGM: "Mobile Suit Battle" by Shigeaki Saegusa, "Fleet Battle" by Shigeaki Saegusa, "Riders in the Sky" (Kamille's Theme) by Shigeaki Saegusa, "Metamorphoze" by Gackt (Full Boost)

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ

Stage: Moon Moon BGM: "Silent Voice" by Jun Hiroe, "Anime Ja Nai ~Yume o Wasureta Furui Chikyūjin yo~" by Masato Arai (Full Boost)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

Stage: Londenion BGM: "SALLY" by Shigeaki Saegusa

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack - Beltorchika's Children

BGM: "SWAN" by Shigeaki Saegusa

Mobile Suit Gundam F91

Stage: Frontier I (Full Boost) BGM: "Eternal Wind ~ Hohoemi wa Hikaru Kaze no Naka" by Hiroko Moriguchi, Kimi wo Mitsumete by Hiroko Moriguchi (Full Boost)

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam

Stage: Angel Halo BGM: "Standup to the Victory" by Tomohisa Kawasoe, "Don't Stop! Carry On!" by RD (Full Boost)

Mobile Fighter G Gundam

Stage: Guyana Highlands BGM: "Flying in the Sky" by Yoshifumi Ushima, "Waga Kokoro, Meikyo Shisui ~Saredo Kono Tenohira wa Rekka no Gotoku~" by Kouhei Tanaka, "Moeagare Toushi Imawashiki Shukumei wo Koete" by Kouhei Tanaka (Full Boost)

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing

Stage: Sanc Kingdom BGM: "The Wings Of a Boy That Killed Adolescence" by Kow Otani (Full Boost)

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Stage: Brussels BGM: "LAST IMPRESSION" by Two-Mix, "White Reflection" by Two-Mix (Full Boost)

After War Gundam X

Stage: Newtype Lab, Microwave Transmission Facility (PS3 version) BGM: "Resolution" by ROmantic Mode, "DREAMS" by ROmantic Mode (Full Boost)

Turn A Gundam

Stage: Manyu Pichu BGM: "CENTURY COLOR" by RAY-GUNS, "Turn A Turn" by Hideki Saijo (Full Boost), " Final Shore - Ah, the second coming is" by Yoko Kanno (Full Boost)

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Stage: African Desert, Heliopolis (Full Boost) BGM: "Invoke" by TM Revolution, "Strike Shutsugeki" by Toshihiko Sahashi, "Tobe! Freedom" by Toshihiko Sahashi (Full Boost), "Three Evil Weapons" by Toshihiko Sahashi (Full Boost)

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

Stage: Messiah BGM: "Ignited" by TM Revolution, "Kakusei, Shinn Asuka" by Toshihiko Sahashi

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer

Stage:Troja Station (DSSD Space Station) BGM: Stargazer ~Hoshi no Tobira~ by Satori Negishi

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Stage: Africa Tower, REBIRTH BGM: "Hakanaku mo Towa no Kanashi" by UVERworld, "TRANS-AM RAISER" by Kenji Kawai, "Scramble" by Kenji Kawai, Namida no Mukou by Stereopony (Full Boost), "Counterattack" by Kenji Kawai (Full Boost), "Fight" by Kenji Kawai (Full Boost), "Decisive Battle" by Kenji Kawai (Full Boost)

Mobile Suit Gundam 00V

Stage: none BGM: none

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: A wakening of the Trailblazer

Stage: none BGM: Tozasareta Sekai (Closed World) by The Back Horn (Full Boost)

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE

Stage: TBA BGM: Kimi no Naka no Eiyuu by Minami Kuribayashi

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

Stage: Industrial 7, Areas around Torington Base (Full Boost) BGM: "UNICORN" by Hiroyuki Sawano, "Mobile Suit" by Hiroyuki Sawano (Full Boost)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

Stage: Bunker Base BGM: "Arashi no Naka de Kagayaite" by Chihiro Yonekura

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

Stage: Side 6 (Full Boost) BGM: "Itsuka Sora ni Todoite" by Megumi Shiina

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory

Stage: none BGM: "The Winner" by Miki Matsubara, Men of Destiny by MIO (Full Boost)

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War

Stage: none BGM: "Mobile Battle"

Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam

Stage: Io BGM: "Space Pirates Crossbone Vanguard Battle Theme", "Raid from the Empire", "Skull Heart Arrives"

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray

Stage: Giga-Float (Full Boost) BGM: "Zips" by TM Revolution

Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: THE BLUE DESTINY

Stage: none BGM: "Shivering Blue"

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash

Stage: none BGM: "His name is Mafty Naviyu Erin"

Gundam EX A

Stage: none BGM: "Divine Act -The EXTREME- revised"

Gundam EX A VS

Stage: none BGM: none

Boss Units

Mobile Suit Gundam

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Mobile Suit ZZ Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam F91

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079

Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. Original

Stage: EXTREME UNIVERSE, EXTREME EVOLUTION

Note: Extreme Gundam is currently the final boss of the game.

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