Within these events, four general options are available:
#MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 0079 THE WAR FOR EARTH MOVIE#
The War For Earth's "gameplay" is that of a multi-option interactive movie which requires the correct inputs at the correct time in quicktime events in order to trigger the solutions to each event in the story. Much of the animations, created with the earliest motion capture technology, appear somewhat cumbersome and the reaction times of mobile suits in some scenes is questionable. Many of the games special effects were of extremely high quality as well, but despite this some environments, such as the desert surrounding the "Thor Cannon" are very bland with low resolution. The Gundam and Char's Zaku II were based on the 1/100 scale Master Grade kits released at the time. Spacy" instead of " E.F.S.F.".įor the production of this game, the Gundam's cockpit was redesigned slightly, most notably the inactive monitors use the purple transparency equivalent of green screen. Also, the marking on the Gundam reads "U.N.T. The earliness of the release is emphasized by the fact that the official website used many of the old naming conventions that were used in the original novel release such as Zak instead of Zaku, and Shar Aznabull rather than Char Aznable. Curiously, though it was released after the 1990 publication of the original Mobile Suit Gundam novel trilogy, the development and release of this game were in fact interestingly before that of even the first film compilation release of the Mobile Suit Gundam trilogy in the U.S., and many years before it or any other Gundam series were licensed in the U.S. The game never officially received an English release, despite being developed by an American company and using western actors. The War for Earth was released in Japan on May 2, 1997. For the Japanese release, the game's voiceovers were dubbed in Japanese featuring the original cast reprising the voices of their characters, with minimal attempts at lip syncing. While it was the only game produced by Presto Studios in this format, the use of live-action footage featuring real actors combined with computer generated backgrounds and effects, as well as the use of entirely pre-rendered computer graphics was common among the majority of the studio's games.
#MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 0079 THE WAR FOR EARTH PC#
During the period in which this game was released, the interactive movie genre which had begun in 1982 was beginning to subside as PC and console games with realtime rendered 3D were overtaking the genre.