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| Phantom Crash | 
 enlarge | From: Encore
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $15.84
You Save: $14.15 (47%)
Buy New/Used from $7.94
Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 14939
Platform: Xbox
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
Model: 8.25E+11
UPC: 824899010014
EAN: 0824899010014
ASIN: B00006RHLV
Release Date: November 6, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com Product Description
In the year 2031, Tokyo is suffering from massive air pollution and thermal island phenomenon. The Japanese government has moved its capital to Neo Tokyo City, a shelter city built on an artificial island. Shinjuku and Shibuya of old Tokyo have been closed off to civilians to protect them from collapsing buildings, and the vicinity has been declared "Trash Area." And now in the middle of Trash Area a battle game called Rumbling has started, in which participants pilot Scoobee, a highly mobile close-combat vehicle, to destroy the opponent, earn the prize, and climb the ranking ladder. Since the day it started being televised, Rumbling has thrilled viewers with the excitement of destruction and suspense coming from the invisible danger of optic camouflage. In 2031, Rumbling has become the biggest entertainment in the history. The gladiators of this new era aimed for just two goals: strength and style.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Good game way too much dialog... November 19, 2003
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game was originally done for Japan and then translated into English. So it has many of the stereotypical Japanese components. It takes place in Japan, Japanese characters, story mode, difficult to understand at first and a lot of the great Japanese innuendoes(sp?). Nothing is wrong with these except THERE IS SO MUCH TEXT AND DIALOGUE TO GET THROUGH YOU WANT TO DESTROY SOMETHING! Good thing that's the object of the game. Thank GOD a certain button combination skips it quickly-otherwise you cannot possibly play the game. If you can get through all the dialogue, its a good game. The gameplay is fun and challenging. The soundtrack is amazing! But it seems as if there are only three different boards (combat zones) with day and night. I guess that will probably get a little repetitive.You earn money to upgrade by destroying other mechs and if you last long enough in the board you can challenge the area ranker. Destroy him/her and you can move on, to where I do not know. As far as I can tell you never loose your mech unless you run out of money to repair it. You mech is seriously customizeable beyond all belief all the way down to brand specific weapons to stickers to upgrading your animal chip controller intelligence, I'll admit it was daunting at first but you'll get the hang of it. You'll love the optic camouflage! The controls are common XBOX controls, nice and intuitive. MOvement is easy inside the game. I have not beat the game yet or played the multiplayer so maybe this is a preliminary review. The game will not automatically save for you so don't forget to do that. I give it only three stars because of all the damn dialogue and it seems to have only three boards(combat zones), get through that and you have a good game.
 Blast from the Past August 14, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Phantom Crash is one heck of a cool game. The controls are almost identical to halo save for the shoulder guns on the B and Y buttons and the emergency dodges with the white and black ones. Its action packed and even involves some tactics with the ability to cloak sneak up and blast mechs into rubble.Another interesting thing for those who own this game is that it is quite similiar to playstations Robo Pitt game. In robo pitt you could choose from several body/walk parts and could fully customize ur Bot with one of several weapons. All in all though, I like Phantom Crash better. ^_^
My Second Favorite Game July 25, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a video game obbsessed monkey, I have played some good games, a lot of bad ones, and a select few that I LOVE. This is a game that falls into the third one. First off, itsa 3rd person shooter with GIANT robots. You make your own robot (which is positivly AWESOME) with weapons, invisibility thigies (called Optic Camoflage), legs, and numerous other objects. The robot building display is fairly simple to understand (requiring no less than 6th grade intelligence) and so is every other display/menu. The graphics are... umm... unreal. The gameplay is... umm... unreal also. So, rent or buy? BUY BUY BUY!!! But first rent to see if you like it.
Awesome Game!! Good Price!!! July 2, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great game you can modify the parts for your scoobee (tank robot thing) to fit your fiting style. The game has great graphics and a really good soundtrack with lots of songs for battle. The game dose get annoying in the way that all you are supposed to do is keep destroying a boss and move up in the ranking and don't have like aquest to find something or stuff like that. This is one of the first gams I played for My Xbox but it was one of the best.
Awesome Soundtrack !!! January 18, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If your into j-pop or games like Jet Grind Radio, you will love the "Sonic Amp" music store in this game, loads of tunes you can purchase in game and play whilst toolin' around in your custom 'Scoobie'(a kind of robot/tank) fighting your way up the ranks in the story mode.
Whilst there's a bit too much scrolling text between rumbles, which can slow down the action, the arena battles are sweet with some great graphical touches, like the invisibility cloaks and dust/particle affects during battles, a bit more work would have made this one top notch, stylish, Anime inspired mech combat game !
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