ZONE OF THE ENDERS THE 2nd RUNNER : M∀RS / アヌビス ゾーン・オブ・エンダーズ : マーズ

I used to love this game in the PlayStation 2 days. However, this remake is poorly done. You need to be held hostage for the entire 5 minute intro video, and if you are too slow, you have to start again. I managed to enable VR, but I was unable to play because it kept going back to the video. This really needs to be worked on so that it can be played by simply... turning it on.

PC port is pretty good, has a couple issues that from what I understand are still present on the PS4 port. These issues are minor though, and the game is still very enjoyable. I haven't tried the VR mode yet but after finishing the game I can say it is very fun, much less repetitive than the original game. Writing and voice acting (at least in English) is shaky. Story is ok, but the main reason to play is for the gameplay. Fast paced, but simple enough mech combat. Worth checking out if you're into that for sure.

The game only crashes. Can't even get to the menu screen.

Had to download a mod to get Japanese audio. I like the gameplay, but it's not quite what i expected when i saw a mecha game. There's a lot of grabbing enemy robots and swinging or throwing them at their friends. The one vs many fights are pretty reasonable and fun, but the boss fights break a bunch of rules which funnels player actions into doing the same thing over an over. It's fun getting new abilities even if I never used over half of them. The major plot is fun, but the characters being a bunch of tropes is disappointing. I did enjoy Dingo and ADA.

This is an amazing(ly good looking) game. However it is a port and super poorly optimized. I had to downgrade my audio to 48k Sampling to stop it from being crackly. It automatically opens Steam VR. There is no Keyboard and Mouse control. I had to connect a controller to even skip the 20 minute intro video (REALLY?!?!?)
I would say wait for native control, but considering this came out in 2018, I would not hold your breath. Can't recommend based on PC optimization

Its a must-play fer sure, dude.
Anubis is a fucking boss!

would recommend, specially if youre a mgs fan

This game is not good. It has some very cool art and the mecha theme is very cool, but man, it plays badly. Combat is super repetitive and just button-mashing, there is no strategy, no nothing. Lore is also very weak, you barely follow any store, just go from room to room fighting the same enemies again and again. It's very boring.

Nice atmosphere. Nice on Steam Deck after mildly clunky set up options selections. Nice on PC VR after same. Nice that the save file is shared and synced between those.

Super awkward art choices are present: clearly phallic cockpit location and repositioning for fast travel... But what can I say? ...
"That's Kojima! Lol" TM

+还可以的机甲游戏，虽然03年的吧。
小岛监督的作品
+音效有点轻飘飘的，还是更喜欢装甲核心那种重工业式的
-没中文

I'm about an hour in.

It's everything I remember from the playstation original.
Was worth buying on sale, cut scenes look good and the game while a lil easy still holds up I would say.

Not a perfect port. My main gripe is the ultrawide aspect ratio 21:9 isn't there.

I recommend it for anyone who wants the nostalgia buzz. Or, if it's on sale and you like scifi mech hack and slashes a la gundam or armored core, you'll like this.

Incredibly underrated PS2 gem (or the least overrated game of all time, shoutout to the old super best friends channel)

The gameplay is impeccable and fluid with a presentation unlike most games back then that makes it age so well. It's a breezy 6 hour ride but very much worth your time, even with the cheesy english dub.

Also please turn off vsync just to get 60 fps only!! This was one of those speed tied to the frame rate games which will have the game becoming a literal blur when it's on. The VR mode is optional btw (I haven't tried it out yet at the time of this review).

Mecha masterpiece with great visuals, awesome gameplay and amazing soundtrack. Just don't play it without the Japanese dub mod.

I felt the need to leave a positive review to reward what I feel like are very well thought-out VR features. They aren't perfect, and in fact it's almost more frustrating because of how close it is to being so, but its more than good enough. The inside of the cockpit has been lovingly rendered and you are given an entire field of vision above and around your shoulders that makes keeping track of the action easy.

However the best feature, and why I ultimately decided to leave this review, was the ingenious way that they use your line of sight for gameplay. You aim your gun by tilting your head towards the enemy you'd like to fire at, and you also orient yourself by looking at the direction you'd like to face and then clicking in the right stick. It sounds confusing, but once you put in a few levels, it becomes second nature. Your head always swiveling does wonders to combat the motion sickness you think would pop up with action this fast and kinetic. It is such a simple solution that I'm shocked I haven't seen it done in more games to allow for faster and more bombastic gameplay.

The only negatives here are that you are forced into controller use, and that your in-cockpit radar is a bit hard to read once things get hectic. It would have been cool to use your hands, but the way the gameplay works means it would have probably been really hard to pull off consistent Smash Combos in the heat of things. Even if you don't have VR, this version fixes some issues that other ports have, making it the definitive version of ZOE2. There really is no reason to skip this if you are a fan of this game, or if you'd like to pilot a super fast giant anime robot in VR.

You do not need VR to play this game.

After years, that one scene can be played without horrendous slowdown and FPS chop.

After sitting through a 10 minute unskippable intro, I tried the training only to find the controls are an absolute mess. This killed my desire to play this game very quickly.

A hidden GEM! "konamiXkojima" game

Cant even play the game, it just launches SteamVR then nothing happens.

Short, sweet and good looking combat focused mecha game that doesn't overstay its welcome. I heavily enjoyed the audiovisual presentation and soundtrack, the game just looks and sounds awesome and aged like wine in my opinion, but some of the boss fights were a bit frustrating to figure out for me.
It has a bunch of extra content if you want more and a cool VR mode if you want to get motion sickness as well. Recommended on a discount.

i love the game

Short, fluid mecha action game from the PS2, remastered quite well.

The plot's fine, the combat is smooth, the level design's decently replayable and has some secrets.
Even after you beat it, there's a bunch of extra missions you can do that are fun in their own right.
Great animated cutscenes and mecha models, jamming soundtrack.

Worthwhile pickup if you see it on discount.

While it has a few good moments and looks sufficiently flashy on the surface, the game unfortunately is much shallower than I had hoped. Complementing lackluster action is a handful of extremely prominent problems with the camera, and I'm overall left disappointed sadly. Wanted to like this one, but Armored Core remains the best for mech action.

good game

Broken port with multiple issues still unpatched years after. You are better off emulating this unless you are a weeb and want to play with japanese VA, but even that requires a mod.

KEN MARINARIS HOT AF

69/10

If you love Mecha, you are gonna love this!

this game is broken and either fails to launch, or after playing cutscenes is all white unless I pause (where pause menu shows up). How they release crap like this is beyond me. Game stopped launching after the first time.

Complete and Utter Junk, I am amazed that Konami would do this, VR game that demands a separate controller? REFUNDED immediately.

Привет контора разработчиков пачинко! Ваша игра не работает 🤩🤩

Please just make a sequel.

How am I supposed to play this, its so much slower than I see on YouTube. I'd recommend the initial release, because it doesn't have Denuvo installed.

Update game for SteamDeck will not work. Not optimized

some of the boss fights are too annoying but good mecha game over all, if you played the first then you should play this as its a way better game than the first.

tl;dr common kojima W

Very soild game i actully loved it a lot but the camura sucks

good game

Over the years I've bought and played this game several times on several platforms. There's nothing like it and no other peer or imitator comes close to how refined this feels in its visual style and flow. The work Cygames put into every extra feature and little detail of this remaster makes M∀RS the definitive version of ZOE2 and I wish they could have taken a crack at the original ZOE.
It's a shame that many ignorant people place so much emphasis on a very hands off producer of this series, leading to this beautiful release being a financial failure, Kojima Productions is and always was so much more than a single man.
I'll never stop loving this morsel of a multi-media project and can only hope that others may learn from it.

Unplayable without controller

love it\

I love when a game makes me wait 10 minutes before I can even touch controls (/s). This port is pretty bad, the game launched on 1 out of 4 attempts, no errors or anything. The Konami privacy agreement failed to load the first time, so it _might_ have been 2 of 4 if that hadn't been an issue. Why do publishers do this? Bad. No money.

Put Her Makeup On

Hella good

jehuty...

great game <3

classic

Personally I never really had any issues with this port. Also I find the VR mode to be super fun, if a bit disorienting at times. Makes me really wish for a VR mech dogfighting game.

If you played the original on PS2, you'll notice some odd changes from the original including cut voice lines and even edited text in the opening cinematic.
In a lot of way it doesn't feel like it really stayed true to Kojima's original vision all that much.

As a long time fan, I can't help but think that Kojima would have most likely done it differently.

In addition to that, Kojima would have had a greater focus on quality.
It's clear that there are some odd bugs which they have no intention of fixing.

It's also clear that they upscaled all the textures, but this also made some of the flaws in the original textures a lot more obvious like mirrored text on the bodies of the frames.

It's also strangely missing the option to set your frame rate which makes this feel more like a cheap console port rather than an actual proper PC release.

There is a ton of room for improvement here, sadly I don't think the modern day Konami will be capable of ever realizing that potential.

However, if you just want a dose of nostalgia, then it will be enough to at least keep you busy for a week, or at the very least a weekend.

Still better than Armored Core,
Also this music 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Waiting past parts!

controller just doesnt respond at all. Impossible to play on keyboard

bad key mapping

I got banned from the forums for pointing out fake Silent Shill 2 reviews