Bandai Namco and Elden Ring maker FromSoft unveiled a new Armored Core 6 trailer during The Game Awards 2022, a dramatic piece showcasing some of the massive robots we’ll be piloting and fighting against at some point in 2023 when the mecha action game launches. The Armored Core 6 announcement comes almost 10 years after the previous game released, Armored Core: Verdict Day, which critics met with lukewarm praise, criticizing its adherence to the series’ usual outdated structures for holding it back.
How much Armored Core 6 strays from these established patterns remains to be seen. The trailer shows a world ravaged by fiery destruction with giant robots of various kinds piloted by humans patrolling the streets and fighting each other in spectacular battles. Some use electricity to incapacitate their foes. Others trundle along the streets loaded down with missiles and other projectiles, capable of incinerating any foe.
Armored Core 6 lets you customize and freely control these mechs, using their unique movement abilities to bend the environment – and enemy mechs – to your will.
Like other FromSoft games, Armored Core 6 centers on deep character progression and putting your skills to the test against massive bosses. We’ll have to wait a bit longer to see some of these fights in action, though. The Game Awards trailer only highlighted some of the mechs themselves.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
