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Xbox News by Ellie Gibson
Bad news for fans of super-pricey Xbox mech combat title Steel Battalion - Capcom is withdrawing online support for the game's Campaign mode at the end of the month.
According to a statement issued by the publisher, "As of Friday September 30th, 10.00 am - 12.00 pm PST, Capcom will be ending the online services for Campaign Mode of Steel Battalion.
"We appreciate your continued support of our product, and sincerely apologise for any inconveniences this may cause. Please enjoy Campaign Mode for the short time it is still available."
But it's not all doom and gloom: "We will continue services and support for both Free Mission Mode and System Link play." So that's all right then. You just can't do the, er, main game bit.
As you may recall, Steel Battalion was released more than two years ago at the frankly shocking price of £129.99. It came with a three-part controller, y'see, complete with all manner of buttons, gear sticks, joysticks and foot pedals.
As you'll know if you read our review, back in the day, it wasn't really worth the money. And now even less so. Sigh.
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jack_klugman
05/09/05 @ 16:31
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I just bought this on ebay yesterday! Does this render Line Of Contact useless?!
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prettyboytim
05/09/05 @ 16:42
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Bugger.
I bought the Line of Contact expansion, but only played it *once*... |
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jack_klugman
05/09/05 @ 16:50
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Hang on...
Is this just the removal of "support" in the sense that Capcom will no longer troubleshoot issues and the like? Campaign mode is surely an offline, single-player mode. |
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Yus, i just traded mine in last week, never took it online and honestly only played it for a total of 40 mins.
Got a silver pstwo for it... not bad, well bad if you like to trade box size for box size :T I keep getting pangs to smell the plastic, even though i had 2 years to smell it all i wanted and didn't. |
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BlackSentoki
05/09/05 @ 17:34
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This only affects Line of Contact though. The original game is still playable as it was single player.
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AfrikaShox
05/09/05 @ 19:58
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they had better create an adapter for the control socket or something, because i really would like to play Steel Battalion on the new machine.
It's not gonna happen, but one can dream... |
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SlackMaster
06/09/05 @ 06:19
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I thought you could only play these titles online and with the uber controller anyway... although it was pricey it probably wasn't financially viable to keep the online aspect of SB going that long. :(
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