Shogo: Mobile Armor Division is a first person shooter video game released by Monolith Productions in 1998. It was the first game to utilize Monolith's flagship Lithtech engine. It has heavy influences from Japanese anime, particularly Patlabor, Appleseed, and the various Gundam series. The game allows the player to pilot a large mech, as well as perform missions on foot.
Shogo features a mix of both standard on-foot first person shooter action, ...
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Shogo: Mobile Armor Division is a first person shooter video game released by Monolith Productions in 1998. It was the first game to utilize Monolith's flagship Lithtech engine. It has heavy influences from Japanese anime, particularly Patlabor, Appleseed, and the various Gundam series. The game allows the player to pilot a large mech, as well as perform missions on foot.
Shogo features a mix of both standard on-foot first person shooter action, and combat with anime-style bipedal mechs. Unlike mech-simulator games such as the Mech Warrior series, the mechs in Shogo are controlled essentially the same as in First Person Shooter games.
An inherent feature of the combat system in Shogo is the possibility of critical hits, whereby attacking an enemy will occasionally bring about a health bonus for the player while the enemy in question loses more health than usual from the weapon used. However, enemy characters are also capable of scoring critical hits on the player.
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