Super Robot Wars Series

Super Robot Wars is well known over Japan for being a Turn Based Strategy game that mixes several mecha anime, manga and video-game storylines together, letting the player enjoy having heroes of different stories fight side by side against their enemies. The most famous installment of the series is the Alpha saga, represented by the Alpha, Alpha Gaiden, 2nd Alpha and 3rd Alpha games. The series' story as a whole integrates characters from the classics Mazinger, First Gundam and Getter (Alpha), to the different Virtual-On, Gaogaigar and Macross 7 (3rd Alpha).

Only recently the series received proper aknowledgement from the western shores with the release of Original Generation series by Atlus. This was possible without causing licensing issues to several companies due to the fact that all characters are created by Banpresto, a lot whom have appeared in previous Banpresto related games.

Super Robot Wars W is the first and so far the only installment of the series on Nintendo's handheld Nintendo DS. The first scans show a reuse of GBA J's animation system, along with promised uses for the touch screen for playing. Following J's trend of a different set of series list, W presents newcomers such as Detonator Organ and the so awaited Golion (known popularly as Voltron), as well as 3rd Alpha fame's Gaogaigar.

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