Gundam Breaker 4 Review (PlayStation 5)

Rating: 7.8
Author: Jim Smale

by Jim Smale · September 16, 2024

Gundam Breaker 4 Review, Create your own ultimate Gundam in the newest Gundam Breaker! With more customizable parts than ever before, you finally have the freedom to build your perfect Gunpla. Test it in battle using the brand-new dual-weapon system break parts off of your enemies and add them to your collection.

Gundam Breaker 4 Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
10.65GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
Graphics settings – mobile suit thumbnail, brightness slider, and motion blur.
Opening anime showing off the previous events in the series.
You have a choice of online or offline features and online doesn’t require a Playstation Plus subscription.
Action shooter gameplay.
Opening VR like a tutorial.
In a third-person view of a full 3D game world, you get full 360-degree camera control.
Four controller layouts including custom, you can Invert the axis for movement and shooting, adjust the stickiness of the lock on, and tweak sensitivity sliders.
Character interactions can be skipped, or set to auto-scroll.
Full voice work.
There are two camera modes: player and lock. The player locks onto enemies the Gundam is facing whilst lock on stays locked on.
Three ways to avoid damage – block, dodge, and airdrop. If you take too many hits when blocking then you will drop your shield.
Attacks available to you – melee, ranged, OP skills (option skill), and EX skills (extreme skills).
Combo and break counters, building it up so far will give bonuses like making enemies weaker or getting a bonus reward.
A simple button press changes the camera types.
EX skill builds up after killing enemies etc whilst the OP skill regens over time.
As a Gundam you have weapons and attacks assigned to each body part so one for the left arm, one for the right arm, etc.
The end of the level breakdown gives a rank and all collected rewards and drops.
Fast loading times.
In the assembly room, you can equip new parts and color-customize your Gundam.
You have a main hub area you run around in between missions.
The lobby counter in the hub manages all your missions and objectives for both solo and multiplayer.
Swapping your hub into an online multiplayer allows random people into your area and you can interact with them. (does require a Playstation Plus subscription)
The event gallery allows people to view and vote on other player’s builds.
A monitor in the hub world shows off high scores, accumulated good builds, ranking, and Gunpla part rankings.
The shop sells Gunpla boxes for parts and colors, you can buy equipment, helmet icons, and diorama materials.
You can sell unwanted parts in the shop.
The Gunpla boxes are these awesome highly detailed boxes that look like they do in real life.
You can save, load, and edit blueprints of your Gundam and the parts you have tweaked.
The coloring of parts is deep with a wide selection of colors and glowing colors, decals, weathering, etc.
Everyone has a huge Gunpla statue, you can pose it, change out parts, etc, and whoever is hosting, it will be their stature shown.
Full clan support where you can share items and gear with each other.
Edit your profile card options – Gundam name, online ID name, emblem, builders rank, title, clan, favorite Gundam series, message, gallery, and friend code. You can also view the players’ current Gundam build and parts.
The game moves at a rather fast pace.
Powerful energetic soundtrack.
An awesome deployment sequence before each mission.
Massive boss fights.
Photo mode can be unlocked.
The gallery is where you can view photos and dioramas.
Builder parts for your Gundam are additional items and gear you can equip in many different places on your Gundam, some are decorations and some can give buffs.
Clear arrows up and down for each piece of gear to help with improving your specs and attributes.
Blueprints let you have many Gundam loadouts and color choices saved so you can swap when in your room.
The story, side missions, and bonus missions will show at the mission desk and tell you the rewards, and you get some say in how you go through the story.
You can set your end-of-mission pose.
When changing out parts you can have the new part match the color of the previous item or have it use default colors.
Very stylish from the fonts to the bright colors and numbers popping up.

Gundam Breaker 4 Review Cons:

You cannot view or take part in gallery events as it requires a Playstation Plus subscription.
A lot to take in.
The tutorial is fine but it’s very stop-start and when you have to press and hold the button to dismiss the pop-up, it gets annoying.
Deploying a mission is a needless button hold.
I did have the game hard crash back to the dashboard a few times in various places.
Boss fights get tedious and very button-mashy.
The game can be slow to show its true potential.
The locations you fight in are not that big and don’t have much in the way of Breakable objects and destruction.
A lot of downtime between missions as you have so many items and weapons to go through and maximize your character.
When a new tutorial is needed you automatically go to it without a choice.
The game is a lot of wave-based combat and it gets tiring.