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JOIN RAVENS' NEST, AN UNDERGROUND BAND OF MERCANARIES WHO TAKE ON ANY MISSION-FOR THE RIGHT PRICE-AND PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO NO ONE.
While playing, pause the game then press Up,
Right, Left, Down,
Circle, L1, R1, R1, L1, Circle, Down, Left,
Right, Up.
Firing the Lazerblade
You can fire a beam of light from your lazerblade.
To do this, press
CIRCLE to use the lazerblade, then as the
arm comes down hit X.
It has no lock so you really need to have
good aim. If done
correctly it will fire a cresent shaped beam.
First-Person View
To switch to first-person view, press Triangle
+ Square + Start at
the same time then unpause the game. To return
to third-person
view, just pause the game then unpause it.
Human Plus Enhancements
Start a new game, and fail all the missions
you play until you are
below -50,000 credits in debt. An FMV will
be played, and you
will start the game over with a clean slate.
Doing this gives you
special abilities, the first time it gives
you a grid radar, the fourth
time it gives you the ability to fire back
weapons with huminiod legs
while standing. The sixth gives you 2x energy
for boosting, and
weapons. Have fun!
Level Skip
from Alajos (Roozseg@aol.com)
To skip to the next mission, pause the game
and press Up, Down,
Circle, L1, R1, L1, Circle, Down, Up.
Passwords
Level Password
1 sSFTgfCnZ
2 rnLVbbJnY
3 frJKZYCPf
4 rmKKFFfnk
5 gvLKCgkmp
6 gvLKBgkmb
7 gvJVCskmp
8 gvBVYshNv
Secret Item Locations
from Trancula@ol.com
Here's the location of the Secret Items.
Item Location
1 Destroy plus
escapee: On a ledge of the building about 3 levels down.
2 Guard wharf
warehouse: Turn around at the start and steal the radar you are guarding.
3 Destroy fuel
depot: In the 2nd room on the shelf at the back, destroy the fuel canisters,
then go up there and search the rear corner.
4 Retake air
cleaner: Inside a grate on the ceiling.
5 Kill struggle
leader: At the bottom of the area where the floor explodes, search the
rear of the floor of the chasm.
6 Exterminate
organisms: Search the rear of the queen's chamber.
7 Guard freight
train: Destroy one of the boxes at the loading area.
8 Destroy intruders:
In a niche under the topmost bridge.
9 Guard factory
entrance: In a "RED" corner of the map.
10 Secret factory
recon: In a "RED" corner of the map.
11 Eliminate strikers:
At the start, turn around and destroy one of the armored cars.
Unlimited Credits
At the title screen, press Up, up, Down, Down,
Triangle. If you did
it right a chime will sound.
Unlimited EP, Leg WP and Core WP
Once you finish 100 sorties the game will
automatically give you
unlimited leg weight points, core weight points,
and generator
output points if you have a win/failure record
of at least 90% and an
overall rating of 98%. This means you can
equip your AC with
anything you can afford.
Combine the mech elements and handling of
Virtual On with the mission-based aspects of
Brahma Force and you'll have a game that is
strangely similar to Armored Core.
Players control large mechanized robots for
an organization called the Ravens. The
Ravens are a mercenary group who perform
missions for large corporations as needed. It's
primarily these corporations and the
behind-the-scenes political and military
jockeying between them that make up the
majority of the plot of the game.
Between missions, players are returned to the
Raven's Nest where they can fix their mechs,
buy new parts (torsos, heads, legs, special
items etc.) with the money they've collected for successful sorties. Players
can also check rankings, change the textures of the mech and load or save
games. Also at the Nest, players receive e-mail from their patrons as well
as
informants who begin to sketch out the political and corporate intrigue
that
makes up the plot of the game.
When picking missions, players will usually have a choice of two or three
to
pick from which provides a fairly non-linear plot as well as offering replay
value after you've beaten the game. Missions can range from removing
squatters, taking out gun emplacement, taking out rogue security robots,
clearing an island or sewers of opposition and more. Some of the missions
are
indoor (in factories, sewers, etc.) but the really impressive ones (and
usually
most fun) are those that are outdoor.
Your mech has a variety of weapons to choose from all with limited
ammunition (except for the energy sword which is used at close quarters).
The key to survival is the well timed use of your ability to run to one
side
while maintaining vision of your target (or targets as the case may be)
which
helps you avoid fire, while maintaining a lock. At the same time your mech
has a boost system (which recharges itself) that can allow your mech to
either make massive leaps or close ground with an opponent in short order.
It's this boosting feature that makes the game extraordinarily fun and
when in
the air, graphically impressive given the depth of the horizon. Controls
do
take a little getting used to, but after a few hours players will get used
to the
button layouts.
Graphically the mech is well animated and the explosions and lighting effects
are of typical PlayStation quality (that is to say more than adequate,
but not
mind-blowing). Framerate for the game is usually smooth, especially within
the indoor environments.
As if the missions weren't enough, there's also a great versus mode that
supports both split-screen and the link cable resulting in even more of
a
Virtual On type of experience.
Bottom Line: All in all, Armored Core is an extremely fun game that should
more than satisfy any shooting fan.