Bandai Namco is pitting Gundams against kaiju in 2027

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I've got a serious case of Gundam disease. It's bad enough that I willingly spend my time playing Gundam: Battle Operation 2—a game that most of the world rightfully thinks is irredeemable. I'm starved enough for new Gundam stuff to play, that at this point I'll take whatever Bandai Namco is willing to put in front of me.

I didn't expect "whatever" to entail Gundams battling giant monsters, however, but I'm willing to be proven wrong. At tonight's Summer Game Fest, Bandai Namco revealed Gundam Rogue Orbit, an action game where mobile suits are fighting a meatier class of enemy than they usually face.

Still, even in the brief announcement trailer embedded above, there's plenty of recognizable Gundam material: A hapless grunt suit gets hopelessly outmatched by a superior tier of foe. There's a white robot with a V-fin. There's th...

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