Another Century's Episode: R

Another Century's Episode: R' (アナザーセンチュリーズエピソード アール Anazā Senchurīzu Episōdo R?), abbreviated as A.C.E.: R, is a mecha action video game developed by From Software and published by Banpresto and Namco Bandai. It was released for the PlayStation 3 on August 19, 2010.[1] Another Century's Episode: R was the first game in the Another Century's Episode series to receive a B (12+) rating from the CERO.

Gameplay Changes
A new dynamic shooting mode called Chase Mode has been added to the game. This mode is similar to arcade shooters wherein the player's machine moves on rails and leaves the targeting weapons for the player to control. Each chase mode section precedes a boss battle; the examples released so far include the battle against the Behemoth from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Panic! Full Metal Panic!] and the battle against Nora Polyansky from Macross Zero. A new ability called Burst Attack appears in this installment. Burst attack is available to all units, and is a special charge attack that changes depending on what machine is being used.

This is the first title in the A.C.E. series that allows to swap pilots between machines, though only for Universal Century mecha - those from Zeta Gundam and Crossbone Gundam - and Genesis Of Aquarion, in which pilot changing is a major plot point and constantly used.[2]

Featured Series/Units

 * Code Geass *NEW*
 * Theme Songs: "Elegant Force", "O2" (Orange Range), "Previous Notice"
 * Playable Mecha
 * Type-0/0AShinkirō (Pilot: Zero/Lelouch Lamperouge/Lelouch vi Britannia-voiced by Jun Fukuyama)
 * Type-02 Guren Mk-II (Pilot: Kallen Stadtfeld-voiced by Ami Koshimizu)
 * Type-02/F1A Guren Flight (Pilot: Kallen Stadtfeld)
 * Type-02/F1Z Guren S.E.I.T.E.N. Eight Elements (Pilot: Kallen Stadtfeld)
 * Z-01 Lancelot (Pilot: Suzaku Kururugi-voiced by Takahiro Sakurai)
 * Z-01/A Lancelot Air Cavalry (Pilot: Suzaku Kururugi)
 * Z-01/D Lancelot Conquista (Pilot: Suzaku Kururugi)
 * Z-01Z Lancelot Albion (Pilot: Suzaku Kururugi)
 * Type-05 Akatsuki Jikisan Type C.C. Custom (Pilot: C.C.-voiced by Yukana)
 * Z-01/A Lancelot Frontier (Pilot: C.C.)
 * non-playlable mecha
 * Caerleon Class Airship
 * RPI-13 Sutherland
 * RPI-209 Gloucester
 * TQ-19 Gun-Ru
 * RZA-6DG Mordred (pilot: Anya Alstreim-voiced by Yūko Gotō)
 * RZA-3F9 Tristan (pilot: Gino Weinberg-voiced by Sōichirō Hoshi)
 * RZA-10JS Percival (pilot: Luciano Bradley-voiced by Atsushi Kisaichi)
 * XT-404 Shen-Hu (pilot: Li Xingke-voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa)

Music
With a few exceptions, the background music is instrumental, though the game includes a BGM editor that allows for replacing music during gameplay and cutscenes with music from the PlayStation 3's hard drive. Acid Black Cherry will provide the themes for A.C.E.: R. The opening theme is named "Re:Birth". There are two separate releases planned for this single. The first includes the title song Re;birth and will be released on 8/18. The second release is planned for October, and includes a game edit version of Re;Birth as well as 3 additional songs that Acid Black Cherry created for Another Century's Episode R.