TGS: Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor Won't Let You Slap Women

While Capcom's TGS demo of Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor featured 90-percent of the same content as the Gamescom demonstration, I still decided to attend for two reasons: to see it for myself (I had a bit of a hard time believing Tina's writeup -- especially the part about slapping your crewmembers), and if there are female characters in the game, if you can apply said motion gesture (yes, I will ask this question on behalf of closet misogynists who play video games).

As noted earlier, the actual content of the demo is nigh-identical to what Tina Sanchez saw back at Gamescom: the player, as lieutenant Powers, manages a crew of four (the player's role as pilot, plus the engineer, the navigator, and the gunner) inside a Vertical Tank (VT). In Steel Battalion's version of the future (where America has been conquered, and hence the 2082 version of the flag only contains seven stars), bipedal tanks serve as the major backbone of the armed forces. So I see the same mission of a beach-assault on New York City (which, due to factors such as troop transport boats and camera angles, looks like a purposeful homage to the opening for Saving Private Ryan) with one critical difference.

Source: http://www.1up.com/previews?cId=3185670

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