Another Century's Episode 2 - Special Vocal Version
Another Century's Episode 2: Special Vocal Version stages a crossover mecha campaign with fast flight, lock-on shooting, melee combat, many machines, and restored licensed theme songs. This catalogue entry evaluates the recorded original-platform release, including its period-specific controls, presentation, content structure, hardware limits, and intended mode of play.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.3 / 10
About this game
Another Century's Episode 2: Special Vocal Version stages a crossover mecha campaign with fast flight, lock-on shooting, melee combat, many machines, and restored licensed theme songs. High-speed air-ground battles, machine switching, and a broad crossover cast strongly reward fans, while vocal songs improve major mission atmosphere. Camera, lock-on, and crowded readability can break down, objectives and enemy groups repeat, and Japanese or franchise knowledge create high barriers. This description covers the original ps2 release represented by this catalog entry and does not assume conveniences introduced by later ports. The assessment also treats period hardware limits, documented mechanics, original controls, and release-specific access as explicit evaluation boundaries.
Collected in series
Another Century’s Episode brings robots from different anime into shared action adventures. You take the controls yourself, learning how each machine moves and when to use its weapons as crossover battles unfold.
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Another Century's Episode 2: Special Vocal Version stages a crossover mecha campaign with fast flight, lock-on shooting, melee combat, many machines, and restored licensed theme songs.
High-speed air-ground battles, machine switching, and a broad crossover cast strongly reward fans, while vocal songs improve major mission atmosphere. Camera, lock-on, and crowded readability can break down, objectives and enemy groups repeat, and Japanese or franchise knowledge create high barriers. Overall, its main strengths are Fast air-ground combat, switching, and crossover breadth; Licensed vocal songs strengthen missions. Its material limitations are Camera, lock-on, and crowd readability can fail; Repeated missions with high context and Japanese barriers. This score covers the original platform release represented by this catalog record and excludes conveniences added by emulators or later ports. The conclusion also accounts for original hardware readability, input, and access conditions. Documented uncertainty remains explicit. The evidence supports this balance.
Strengths
- Fast air-ground combat, switching, and crossover breadth
- Licensed vocal songs strengthen missions
Weaknesses
- Camera, lock-on, and crowd readability can fail
- Repeated missions with high context and Japanese barriers
Who it is for: Players who value fast air-ground combat, switching, and crossover breadth and can accept the original release's limits.
Play notes: Before playing, expect camera, lock-on, and crowd readability can fail and repeated missions with high context and japanese barriers; this assessment covers the recorded original-platform release.
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| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Licensed vocal songs strengthen missions; Repeated missions with high context and Japanese barriers. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Fast air-ground combat, switching, and crossover breadth; Camera, lock-on, and crowd readability can fail. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Licensed vocal songs strengthen missions; presentation is judged within the original platform conditions, with no bonus for age alone. | Reviewed | 9.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Judged on the original ps2 release's input, readability, saving, and accessory conditions. Camera, lock-on, and crowd readability can fail. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- FromSoftware
- Publisher
- Banpresto
- Release date
- 2007
- Platforms
- PlayStation 2
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Action · Primary genre
- Tags
- ShootingMelee CombatThird PersonStory-drivenFast-pacedSolo-friendly3D GraphicsMechs
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation 2Worldwide2007
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