Shin Super Robot Taisen (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Shin Super Robot Taisen

Super Robot Wars is a series of tactical role-playing video games produced by Banpresto, which is now a Japanese division of Namco Bandai. The main feature of the franchise is having a story that crosses over…

27 December 1996

What Shin Super Robot Taisen is

Shin Super Robot Taisen is a strategy game developed by Winkysoft and released in 1996. It was published by Bandai Namco Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game begins when the military has detected a large energy signature - far *too* large. The source becomes apparent quickly: one of the colonies around Mars just exploded. And what's worse, more colonies are under attack from beam cannonry borne by unknown flying adversaries. In short order, the entire constellation of Martian colonies is wiped out, and the commander runs off to make his report, yelling to his subordinates not to take their eyes off the unidentified enemy. Some observers thinks to themselves that, had they but a little more time, Earth's warpower could have been organized to combat this threat. They had apparently anticipated this threat, but not a threat this…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Super Robot Wars series

Shin Super Robot Taisen is the ninth of 83 entries we hold in the Super Robot Wars series. It arrived 8 months after Super Robot Taisen Gaiden: Masou Kishin - The Lord of Elemental. The next entry was Super Robot Shooting in 1997.

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