Gundam 0079: The War for Earth (PC) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Bandai Digital and Presto Studios' 1996 interactive movie game for PCs running Windows 95, Gundam 0079: The War for Earth.

For those of you that like incredibly odd, obscure, and cheesy-awesome games, this should fit the bill well. It's Gundam, in a fully FMV game full of QTEs that always seem to end in things exploding in quite a dramatic fashion.

And if you wanted to know how to say the name, the Japanese title, ガンダム ダブルオーセブンティナイン, is a phonetic transliteration of the English title: Gundam Double-O Seventy-nine. So yeah. A 200-foot robot wants to be a super spy. Err....sure?

This is the Windows 95 PC version of the game running through Windows XP. This recording isn't directly of the game play - it is a replay through the game's built-in playback function. At any point in the game, you can hit playback and watch the entire game up to the point you've played. I finished the game, so it runs through like a complete episode. The video is pillar-boxed in-game, so since there is nothing else onscreen but a stop, play, and pause button during the playback, I scaled the video to fit the widescreen frame while keeping the aspect ratio intact. It looks much nicer this way.

Anyways, the Windows 95 and PowerMac versions apparently had extremely low print runs, and not many people ever heard of the game, let alone bought it. These PC versions were the only ones released in English. The most popular version, the PlayStation port, was released only in Japan, and all of the video in that version is dubbed-over in Japanese. It was also released on the Pippin, but not the PCFX. Go figure.

So, here is a forgotten relic of a bygone age, and one that is MUCH better to watch than it is to play. It's ridiculously picky and cheap to play through, so don't sweat it if you can't find a copy. It's a fantastic movie, and really really sub-par game -- even by the typical standards for the "interactive movie" genre.
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[Megaraptor]

I don’t know what’s more scary. A menacing monologuing Char or an overly nice and understanding Bright.

[notiddypunkgf]

The Duchy of Jeanne and its fearsome Zacks.

[gundam]

This masterpiece of a Gundam game must never be forgotten....

[spoonshiro]

I'm impressed at the CGI quality and chuckling at the campy acting in roughly equal measure

[bonkers]

Oh no, not Gion and his henchmen gang, the Zacks!

But really, Char is supposed to be in his early 20s lol

[NintendoComplete]

This is the only version of this game that was released in English, and oh boy. A live-action FMV Gundam game? Yes, it's heinous and amazing at the same time. The production values really are impressive for 1996, though!

[NoahR_]

23:10 For the freedom of John! This is so hilariously bad.

[shinsua_]

The Netflix movie got leaked already? Damn

[thegoodoldays]

Oh but I adore that their char seems to have a paper mask

[krism.]

This is The Room of the Gundam franchise, it’s terrible but it has enough redeeming qualities that people can enjoy it for how bad it is.

[BroomPusher]

3:00
Play at .25 speed and read the text on the cam footage for a suprise

[elneco]

I ended up watching this one back to back with the JP version. Funny thing, the Japanese version not only changes the VAs to the original 0079 cast, but also changes some lines too. For example, Char immediately says "Blame it on the misfortune of your birth!" at 21:19 in the Japanese version.

[lecapitaineisonyoutoob]

We take the piss out of the acting, but I can't be the only one who sees a lot of the energy you'd later find in the Wachowskis' Speed Racer movie. They had to know how silly they looked in those plastic costumes yet they still went absolutely HAM on those roles. It's actually kind of admirable in a weird way.

[d_valroth]

I like how the text literally says "Zeon", and every last character refuses to pronounce it.

I do understand ZAK though. The letter U ending a non-Japanese word is almost always a placeholder to conform to Japanese grammar and shouldn't actually be pronounced...but sometimes words do really end in Us.

[drakewoody]

Jean Empire... Dear lord, this is like when the Sci-Fi Channel had anime on Saturdays, and they called pronounced it like Ann 'ime

[MagnumSanada]

Char laughing lives rent free in my head.

[reijiminato]

10:27 - Insert "Top Gun Anthem"

[SomeOrangeCat]

The prefect thing doesn't exi-...

[thedesensitizedsympathizer]

Guys, Pause at 3:02 and read the code at the lower left.

[gantzify]

Rerez’s review of this bad game brought me here