Game Review 4

SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online

SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online, simply known as SDGO is a Massive Multiplayer Online Third Person Game developed by Softmax and published for the first time in 2007 in South Korea. Several years later, other country begin to licensing agreement to operate SDGO in their country. The game provide a rich selection of robot in all Gundam series, over 350 robots are added in this games and will keep updating as long the Gundam anime running.

The game can be said to be quite simple, the player must move their robot to dodge and attack the enemy. The game allow you to buy a new robot from a capsule machine, where it will randomly pick by the machine. Each robot have their ranks, varies between A,AR,A,B,BR,CR and C. The player may also get a robot by a feature called Mix-Plan which allow you to get SS,AS,and BS rank, where the player must mix some robots to get the desired robot. The higher the rank, the higher the robot damage and performance, and the more point you spent in the game. Each robot also have their own skill that differs them from one to another, the player may add one additional skill and change its default robot's color. The game contains four mode, the first is a single player mode, where the player can only play by themselves  without other player helps. Second is cooperation mode, where you can invite up to 4 player to help you in completing the quest. Third mode is battle mode that allows 12 player to join in the game, where player can choose the battle types, for example point match (to gain the point as many as possible, where when you defeat the other teams member enemy, your team gain a point equivalent to the destroyed robot, for example if you defeat an S rank robot you got 5 points to the team, if you defeat C rank robot you got 2 point only) , dead match (allow to other team to compete again each other, where if one of the team health bar becomes zero, the opposing team will win). And the last one is training mode, that allows player to fight a dummies.

Using A.G.E framework, we can analyze from the Action, the players can have move button and turn 360 degree using mouse, a lock-on and fire button using mouse click, the player also able to boost up and down, and even dash by combining the movement button with boost button. The player may also swap weapon between melee attack, range attack, special attack and items, and some robot also provided with transform feature that allows the player to use transform button that will change the robot appearance.

In gameplay side, the main thing that we do in this games are to defeat the enemy or other player by shooting or hitting them and survive by avoiding their attack using movement button. The player may use some items to increase their stats in a short time to turn on the tide.

Seeing in experience side, at first the player may feel competition might be the main feeling that the player feel at first, because this game mostly about domination by defeating others. Competition lead to the need of communication since the game provide communication within the group, to plan a strategy against opposing teams. Competition also will lead to pride if the players win the game and will brought joy, because the winner will get more points and exp that will help the player to become more stronger. Because this games contain so many robot, player may obsessed to collect the best robot which will bring to pride to themselves being praised by other players.