Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam

The dream contest has finally come true! The culmination of the series, can you survive!?

JP release: 9th December 2004
EU release: N/A
JP release: N/A
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Bandai
NGC Magazine Score: N/A
Mods Used: Widescreen Hack

While this is based on an arcade game, I can’t find any details on the actual cabinet. Some places claim it was a Triforce game, but I can’t find any information at all to confirm, especially as it was also released on PS2. Japanese arcades are quite difficult to do jd information on, especially when there are multiple other games with similar names.

You pick one of many Gundam mechs, choose an ally and battle your opponents until you’ve killed them multiple times. Ground combat works well, you can hover a bit and move around fairly easily. You have a main weapon, side weapon and once you deplete it, it reloads. You also have a sword and if you manage to get a hit in, you can generally stun lock them.

Space battles are really annoying, turning and trying to target specific enemies is a pain and doesn’t seem to fully work. The arenas are also quite small. On top of the arcade mode, there’s also a lengthy campaign that’s just a lot of the same kind of battles.

Fine

More time is spent fighting with the controls than against the enemies in this confusing pile of robots bashing each other to pieces. Since pretty much every aspect of this titles disappoints in a few different ways, the saving grace is just one word: robots. This game truly has a lot of robots. And they smash each other. Smash, smash, smash. Smashity, smash, bam, boom, kapow. That about sums it up so save your cash.
Ed Lewis, IGN

Remake or remaster?

Perhaps in a Gundam collection.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to get Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam.