It's hard for me to describe how much this game goes hard in words, this game just fucking rocks. If you think you know your way around mecha games throw it all out the window. These mechs are huge, hulking beasts that move slow as hell but pack a HELL of a punch, an uppercut from your mech can literally flip a guy and a punch can send it flying through buildings it's awesome and you can buy tons of new moves to make your robot even more broken. The voice acting is bad but that only added to my experience, I loved every minute I spent playing this. It's not a "so bad it's good" game like others might say, it's just super fucking good!

Characters created by the character designer of Cowboy Bebop, music from the sound designer/score composer of Killer 7, some of the funniest bad voice acting outside of Chaos Wars, and an inventive control scheme and scenario that has you controlling a human in third-person and then switching to their first-person viewpoint to look at and control your mech with stuff as wild as alternating the shoulder buttons to take giant steps and swinging the analog sticks to throw punches with your Meganite.

Definitely worth trying!

There's no other game operating at the spectacle RAD provides. It's not mechasexual like Armored core or a fast moving stylish action game like ZoE, but in terms of putting you in the shoes of the characters and really feeling like you're an insignificant dot caught between two giants at war, this shit is unparalleled, giving you a little dude to run around with so you have to constantly be adjusting for sightlines and perspective was just a genius move on Sandlot's part. This game is known mainly for its control scheme, which is fairly intimidating, but frankly the game is very easy and as long as you can wildly swing in the enemy's direction you'll generally come out on top, it's a very approachable game. RAD is also surprisingly human in its storytelling, you spend a lot of time just talking to friends and seeing the on foot impact of the war, and there are a number of optional cutscenes you can trigger during fights by destroying certain landmarks that help keep you grounded in what you're really doing. Very impressive game

Robot Alchemic Drive (RAD) is a love letter to giant robot fights, tokusatsu movies, and kaiju films. The voice acting is hilariously bad. The control scheme is atrocious. The plot line is nonsensical. In spite of all this, the game is one of my favorite games on the Playstation 2. I'd even go so far as to call it a hidden gem. The game is very self aware of how ridiculous it is and leans into that. The result is a game that will make you laugh and smile while you play it. It's not difficult, but it is fairly long at 15-20 hours. It's developed by Sandlot and published by Enix (prior to the Square-Enix merger), and this game's engine went on to power the Earth Defense Force games. Give this game a chance and it will work its way into your heart.

This game's pretty neat. I actually love the controls and it manages to convey the sense of weight and power a mech should have without feeling too clunky like armored core and gundam versus. Unfortunately the controls and the feeling of punching the monsters are really the only good parts of the game. You have to spend an obnoxious amount of time running around the city on foot while experiencing the fairly generic story. The voice acting is hilarious for a while but loses its appeal a few hours in and I just started skipping the cutscenes entirely. 15 episodes in and the enemies are all almost entirely fought the same way. Also while it is cool to view the robot battle from the human's perspective, it often just ended up requiring a lot of tedious camera management. I'd love to see this game's atmosphere and combat brought back in a new mech game that's more competent in the other aspects.