Namco Bandai has announced that they are bringing the Another Century Episode franchise to the PlayStation Portable with Another Century Episode Portable.

Following the ACE formula, this new portable game will feature mechs from a few anime series (20 series in this game) and they will battle it out with each other. What is different about this game though, is that there won’t be any story. There are just a series of missions and mechs for you to choose from and off you go. You can repeat these missions as many times as you want, grinding Ace Points to buy better mechs.

According to Namco Bandai, they decided not to have a story because this is a multiplayer driven game where up to 3 people can team up and take on the missions together. No news if there will be a versus mode.

Well how many of you are excited about this? I know Japanese gamers are since they like portable gaming a lot. Heck, there is even an area in Akihabara where Dragon Quest IX players can hang out and play together though I’m not sure if it still exists today.

*Update: Famitsu has updated information about the game, including screenshots. You can go over to their site and view them. andriasang translated the anime series that are appearing in the game, and here they are!

• Blue Comet SPT Layzner
• Brain Powerd
• The Wings of Rean
• Overman King Gainer
• Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion
• Nadesico The Prince of Darkness
• Aura Battler Dunbine
• Heavy Metal L-Gaim
• Metal Armor Dragonar
• Z Gundam
• After War Gundam X
• Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
• Gundam Char’s Counterattack
• Gundam Seed Destiny
• Gundam 00
• Turn A Gundam
• VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire
• Macross Plus
• Macross Frontier
• Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows

Mechs from theGundam 00 series will be making an appearance!! Yeah!! Though I wonder if they are including the ones from the recent movie.

Source(s): 1Up | Famitsu | andriasang