Hello and welcome back! Sorry for the delay but I was out all weekend for my sisters wedding. So Today we’ll be talking about one of my favorite games of the Xbox 360 era and a game that made me a bigger fan of the mecha genre: CHROMEHOUNDS.

ChromeHounds was released on July 11, 2006. The game was created by Fromsoft the makers of DarkSouls and Published by SEGA. Unlike other Mech games like ArmorCore and MechWarrior, Chromehounds lets the player play in third person or first person mode and have nearly complete control over their Mech. The game had a wide range of reviews and mostly was positive on that front.

Chromehounds has a wide range of customizing ability, From building a quick scout tank to a long range artillery Juggernaut to a control and command center and a heavy hitting soldier role unit or doing what ever you wanted and make a HOUND that was strictly what ever you wanted it to be. This was one of the amazing things about this game was that the player had complete and utter control of how their HOUND looked and the color scheme on it. In the picture below you can see six types of HOUNDS you could make. You would go to the garage mode to build all kinds of HOUNDS and add weapons and paint schemes to your unit.

Chromehounds did have a single player story that went across multiple story arcs of different characters that gave the player a small sample size of the wider game when you would step into the matchmaking where the game ultimately shined. But for the story it was a nice addition to a something much bigger and let you see different kinds of HOUNDS. The game really shined when you went into matchmaking and joined the never ending war game mode that pitted, three in game nations against each other. The name of this mode was Neroimus War. Players could join groups or clans to take over the opposing foes areas. For the capital cities it would be 50,000 points to take it over. After the war would end the players would be allowed to change what nation they fought for and go to another one.

The Neroimous War Map

On August 7, 2009 Sega announced that they would be shutting off the online servers for the game and the following January 6, 2010 the servers were officially shut down and leaving players of the game to only being able to enter the single player mode. There is a online petitions going around on internet to try to convince both SEGA and FromSoft to make a sequel for the franchise. This was one of the games that I played during my highschool time period second to the other SEGA game Phantasy Star Universe which was another amazing game that sadly the following year on my birthday SEGA shut down as well.

Why would I want to see a return to this dormant franchise? Its amazing game and when you got into a 6v6 game mode things would get insane and you would be able to see what the other people in the world would be making and how the strategy’s of others would vary from game to game. Overall this was one if not the most fun and enjoyable Real Time Strategy games of the late 2000’s and opened the world to other big games that would follow after it.

Hopefully at this years E3 with the rumor from SEGA that they are looking at to revive some of their long dormant franchises ChromeHounds is on top of the big list that they have and it would be an amazing to see it appear on the big stage and be able to return to it once more for some insane fights and see franchise get a second chance.

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