Anyone played Armored Core games before?

Yeah, and the controls are way too hard in those games. I'll take gundam anyday, for a little mecha fix.

Yeah the Controls are hard but you get use to them in time.

i loved the armored core series, the tournament mode was awesome and the controls were a pain, but once you get used to them, its really easy, cant wait for the next AC game to come out for PS3

Armoured core was good but yes the controls were clunky, they never really improved on gameplay and graphics and the levels were kinda repetitive, but the controls and graphics look like they have been fixed on the PS3 (Judging by gameplay movies) but lets hope they fix the repetitive bit now.