Gigantic Drive
| Robot Alchemic Drive | |
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| Developer(s) | Sandlot |
| Publisher(s) | Enix |
| Director(s) | Takehiro Honma |
| Producer(s) | Wataru Higuchi Tomoya Asano |
| Designer(s) | Ryuji Fukuyo |
| Programmer(s) | Toshio Noguchi Yoshihiro Ito |
| Artist(s) | Masatsugu Igarashi Toshihiro Kawamoto |
| Writer(s) | Takehiro Honma |
| Composer(s) | Masafumi Takada |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, two-player versus |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 80% (24 reviews) |
| Metacritic | 79 of 100 (21 reviews) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| EGM | 8 of 10 |
| Famitsu | 30 of 40 |
| GamePro | 4.5 of 5 |
| GameSpy | 8.6 of 10 |
| IGN | 7.3 of 10 |
| Play | 7 of 10 |
| X-Play | 4 of 5 |
Robot Alchemic Drive, known in Japan as Gigantic Drive (ギガンティック ドライブ), is a PlayStation 2 video game developed by Sandlot and published by Enix. It was released in Japan and North America.
In the game the player controls a giant robot called a Meganite, humanity's last line of defense against an extraterrestrial race called the Volgara. The player is not in the cockpit of the robot; rather, he or she is on foot, carrying a remote control (the player must switch between the protagonist and the robot to play). As such, Robot Alchemic Drive features many of the same gameplay elements as other Sandlot games.
As seventeen-year-old heir to the Tsukioka family and a bankrupt weapons company, the game introduces a world where all manned space exploration projects have been put on hold indefinitely due to a material called "Space Nectar" that poisons and kills any organic life in space. Earth is safe because of its atmosphere, but it seems that humanity is doomed to an isolated existence.
When machines known as Volgara begin destroying the earth, the player, as the sole inheritor of the Tsukioka's weapons company, must pilot the only weapon on Earth capable of standing against a Volgara. Along the way, lives will be changed, history will be made, and the origins of the Volgara will be revealed.
The protagonists that the player may choose between are two males and one female (Naoto Tsukioka, Ryo Tsukioka, or Yui Tsukioka); however, the NPCs usually only refer to the character as "Chairman" and choice of player character does not affect gameplay. There are 3 different robots to choose from: Vertical Fortress Vavel, Airborne Dominator Laguiole and Gllang the Castlekeep.
Vavel has 2 modes, Volcanic and Genesis mode. Laguiole can turn into a plane, and his mode similar to Vavel's is the Demon Sword Desecrator mode, which releases two short, laser like, daggers from the robot's wrists. Gllang can turn into a vehicle/tank being. His special mode is the Warhammer Sanctifier. On his arms, two big blocks of metal alloy are released and become mallets. these special modes only become available after Level 40: Valhalla Dawning. These modes will only last 180 seconds, or 3 minutes.
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