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Chrome Hounds (X360)

GENERAL INFORMATION

GENRE/STYLE

Simulation/Giant Robot Simulation

RELEASE DATE

11/JUL/06

ESRB RATING

TEEN, Mild Language, Violence

DEVELOPER

FromSoftware, Inc.

PUBLISHER

Sega of America, Inc.

TRAITS (member-attributed "LIKES")

THE SETTING #USES

War 42
fictional future 39

PLAYING AS #USES

Mech 88

PLAYING AGAINST #USES

HOW IT'S PLAYED #USES

GENERAL TONE #USES

Mech style 67
politically charged 19

DESCRIPTION

The first mech shooter on Xbox 360, Chrome Hounds involves futuristic combat in a world dominated by armored behemoths known as Hounds. Players assume control of a Hound unit as one of five squad member types or as a tactics commander, with the latter responsible for issuing verbal orders to teammates on Xbox Live. Each Hound unit offers varying degrees of movement, firepower, and abilities, with players able to customize their walking weapon of mass destruction with millions of individual parts, accessories, weapons, and skins.

Chrome Hounds takes place from a choice of first- or third-person views on 115 maps of war-ravaged, bombed out areas. In addition to the tactics commander, squad roles include scout, soldier, sniper, defender, and heavy gunner, allowing team members to specialize in specific areas based on their preferred play styles. Online support for up to 12 simultaneous combatants is included for both cooperative and competitive campaigns. Veteran developer From Software, best known for its Armored Core series on PlayStation and PlayStation 2, lends its expertise in the genre to this original property. ~ Scott Alan Marriott, All Game Guide

Chrome Hounds (X360)

GENRE/STYLE:

Simulation/Giant Robot Simulation
RELEASE DATE:

11/JUL/06
TOP TRAITS:

Mech style, Online Multiplayer, character customization
DESCRIPTION:

The first mech shooter on Xbox 360, Chrome Hounds involves futuristic combat in a world dominated by armored behemoth... more

players 482

followers 1

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POPULARITY: X360 PLATFORM

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Choosing your Style? by: CrescentCrux

“The worst thing I find about games if trying to find how to play my style. There are the basic style of Tank, support, Stealth and power attacker but I use a mix of them when I play. I try and take...”

created 05/NOV/2009

ruijoel was the last to comment - 7 days ago...

“I too like to recon before acting (I'm mostly talking of Fallout 3 here).
In Fallout 3, I almost always wander in Stealth mode, and strike from hidden position for a powerful sneak critical attack of awesome super destructive power. Then plant some mines, sneak away, and laugh.
But sometimes, it's a better use of my time to save, run, die, reload. The second time around, I know where the enemies are and where I need to start being stealthy.
In addition, I'm a very poor shot, it takes me something like 1 second to properly aim. And it's worse on the console.

On more traditional FPS, I'm an even poorer shot, so I just run around and shoot while trying to outlive my opponent. Or I sneak, but that's not feasible in many games (L4D, CS).

In Mass Effect, I like to use the shotgun at point blank range, because good aiming is less important. Yeah, that involves a lot of exposure, but with good choice of armor (I always prefer good shield over damage reduction) and proper use of cover, it works very well.”

CrescentCrux was the last to comment - 6 days ago...

“In Oblivion I was strait Bow and dagger for stealth sleep kills (no Dual wield?), i had a long sword as a backup but that was it. But Oblivion had the problem of X-ray vision of DOOOOM which made my life bad till I got a few mods to make it a bit more realistic (and one that gave me exploding arrows of doom... but that was for a cheat character). WoW was a first change to that. I like Pally, Rouge, and Hunter. mostly focusing on DPS or Attack speed. For games with talking or cunning I always choose that way; If I can talk my way out and then talk my way into them giving me money, Why not?

I loved assassins creed, There was weapons to focus on all zones of attack, and stealth with climbing explore... AS2 hurry up!

The main thing i find in games that i don't see are Katar's and Jur's. I'd love to just run around with a pair and stab people... ”

ruijoel was the last to comment - 6 days ago... show previous hide previous

“I never played AS, but I love Splinter Cell (haven't played Double Agent, though).
I also love dual wield: in NWN2 my favorite character was a dual shortsword rogue who would outdamage any other combatant. Even without sneak attack, he had many sorts of extra damage on his weapons, so he would plow easily through almost any enemy. And with sneak attack (improved invisibility FTW), it's lolwut? OMGWTFBBQ! Arghhh!
Well, ok, he wouldn't outdamage the average sorceror, but he compensated with the ability to stay alive through almost anything.”

Chrome Hounds (X360) by: paganjedi

“really good Mech combat. The mech customization "garage" feature is simply off the chain cool. You take parts you earn on missions and recombine them in endless variety with almost limitless orientations / arrangements. A myriad of guns,...”

created 28/OCT/2009

RoneNeffect was the last to comment - 25 days ago...

“I would so get this if they weren't shutting the servers down in Jan. 010”

Joumae earned achievements in Chrome Hounds on 20/AUG/09

“Well I only completed one part. But that's one part less I have to do now so. =D”

created 20/AUG/2009

An oh so light scout.... by: Sepherchorde

“Well, I started playing Chromehounds again after a long absence, over two years. I did great my first six matches, owned quite a few other hounds alone, one on one matches. But then I got into a...”

created 04/AUG/2009

My fav hound

“There needs to be a sequel to this game.”

Added by: nAiLeAtEr
Date: 17/JUN/2009
Views: 21
Votes: 0

created 17/JUN/2009

Chrome Hounds (X360) by: SolarSpot

“The degree you can spec out your mech creates an endless amount of work that you can put into the mech. It's a shame they no longer update this or gave a hint of Chrome Hounds 2 coming out soon, it'd be on my immediate buy list.”

created 20/MAY/2009

Chrome Hounds (X360) by: GRiMP

“WOW.....an awesome Squad-Based, Mech-Killing, game. I played this game for over 24hrs straight, on multiple occasions. There is nothing better than smoking weed and playing Chrome Hounds!!!!”

created 12/MAR/2009

SaintsDog earned achievements in Chrome Hounds on 25/FEB/09

“built my hound and got four medals.”

created 25/FEB/2009

Chrome Hounds (X360) by: cluskevird

“I was hoping for more out of this game. I undertstand the tactical application of the game but it does get tiring just getting through the "training" of each hound. I made it through one type of hound and since most of the achievements...”

created 25/JAN/2009

Chrome Hounds (X360) by: BlindKamikaze

“A very good but challenging story. Amazing if not the best multiplayer layout. Other games should have the multiplayer format in this game.”

created 19/JAN/2009

Chrome Hounds (X360) by: dain6492

“decent”

created 19/JAN/2009

cluskevird played Chrome Hounds on 29/DEC/08

“Decided to play Chromehounds again to see if I can't get a few more achievements out of it. Considering it took me quite a long time to get one achievement, who knows if and when I'll get another...”

created 30/DEC/2008