Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor stomping out in June

Kinect-powered mech 'em up Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is lined up to launch on June 19. Publisher Capcom celebrated today's announcement with a set of new screenshots and two new trailers for Armored Core creator From Software's robofest.

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Kinect-powered mech 'em up Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is lined up to stomp onto Xbox 360 on June 19. Publisher Capcom celebrated today's announcement with a set of new screenshots and two new trailers for Armored Core creator From Software's robofest.

Heavy Armor will use both a controller and Kinect, with gestures used for everything from starting the engine to high-fiving after a successful mission.

Look, here's over four minutes of campaign gameplay unveiled at Microsoft's Spring Showcase, complete with a Kinectistical handshake. Cor, what wonders!

And some gubbins about the story or what have you:

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    March 5, 2012 1:15 PM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor stomping out in June.

    Kinect-powered mech 'em up Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is lined up to launch on June 19. Publisher Capcom celebrated today's announcement with a set of new screenshots and two new trailers for Armored Core creator From Software's robofest.

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      March 5, 2012 2:06 PM

      The Kinect controls look like they'll probably be a bit tedious... *but*, I guess you could always think of it like having a few extra buttons... =/

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      March 5, 2012 2:10 PM

      Wow does that look like a bad game.

      Also, in the beginning of the first video whats with the guy in the background? Is he having a seizure or something?

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      March 5, 2012 5:00 PM

      "At least now you can't say it's got a crazy, complex controller that no one's gonna buy, unless you consider Kinect to be a crazy, complex controller no one's gonna buy!" -- Brian Leahy, Weekend Confirmed 26, on the announcement of Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor at TGS 2010.

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      March 6, 2012 6:31 AM

      I'd been wondering about this game and what had happened to it. The Kinect stuff looks tedious from one of the earlier trailers but I'll wait and see what people think once they've played it. Maybe there'll be an option to play it without all the Kinect stuff.

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      March 6, 2012 9:09 AM

      Don't think I'm going to reserve this game like I did with the original Steel Battalion.

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