Platform: PC
Region: NTSC-U
Country: United States of America
Developer(s): Monolith Productions, Inc.
Publishers(s): Interplay
ReleaseDate: 1998-10-15
Players: 1
Co-op: No
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, often abbreviated as Shogo: MAD, is a first-person-shooter (FPS) game. 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 MechWarrior 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. Players take the role of Sanjuro Makabe, a Mobile Combat Armor (MCA) pilot and a commander in the United Corporate Authority (UCA) army, during a brutal war for the planet Cronus and its precious liquid reactant, kato. Players must locate and assassinate a rebel leader known only as Gabriel. Prior to the game's first level, Sanjuro had lost his brother, Toshiro; his best friend, Baku; and his girlfriend, Kura, during the war. He is now driven by revenge and his romantic relationship with Kathryn, Kura's sister; in Sanjuro's words, "It's kinda complicated." The game is well remembered for both combining an anime aesthetic with early 3D FPS environments, the later of which often leads to comical in-game bugs such as the environment being more hazardous than the enemies you face.
ESRB Rating: M - Mature 17+
Genre(s): Shooter