Armored Core 3 (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Armored Core 3

Armored Core 3 once again puts you in the shoes of a Raven mercenary, with the task of piloting your own battle machine to use in a range of tasks (from destroying other mechs to seek and destroy missions)…

60 4 April 2002

What Armored Core 3 is

Armored Core 3 is a shooter game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2002. It was published by Agetec. It is available on PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Armored Core 3 once again puts you in the shoes of a Raven mercenary, with the task of piloting your own battle machine to use in a range of tasks (from destroying other mechs to seek and destroy missions). After each missions, you are payed in full. The money raised can then go on towards the purchase of items for your mech. Weapon upgrades, better shields, even the opportunity to purchase what's called an Exceed Orbit, smaller robot gun emplacements that hover around your mech, giving you an added boost of fire power in the crunch. 4 player deathmatch modes are also included, where you each pit your supped-up mechs against each other to see who is the last robot standing.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Armored Core 3 holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Armored Core 3 launched on 4 April 2002, within three weeks of Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast and World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International.

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