History Videogame / ShogoMobileArmorDivision

* LoveTriangle: Between Kathryn and Kura over Sanjuro. Kathryn seems somewhat jealous, while Kura takes it more in stride.

* MultipleEndings: Two. [[spoiler:In one, you help the Fallen take control of Cronus. In the other, you defeat the Fallen]].

''Shogo: Mobile Armor Division'' is a FirstPersonShooter developed and published by Creator/MonolithProductions in 1998. It was notable for being the first game to use the Lithtech GameEngine, which (through various upgrades and tinkering naturally) would later be used to develop other noted Monolith titles such as ''No One Lives Forever'', ''F.E.A.R.'', and even the recent ''Mordor'' titles. While the game was American-made, its main influence was the HumongousMecha genre of anime and manga, especially RealRobot series such as ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'', ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'', and ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}''.

* GameEngine: Powered by Lithtech.

* BiggerIsBetter: Literally the game's {{Tagline}}. At face value, concerning guns and mecha. [[CaptainObvious The ad subtext was sex]].

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Less that she doesn't like them and more that [[spoiler: Kura]] kind of had to escape capture and probably lost them. Nonetheless she runs around barefoot every time you see her. Less explainable is Kathryn's model having the same barefoot status, unless those are conspicuously skin-colored shoes.

--> '''Sanjuro:''' [[spoiler: Ryo's]] gonna ''die', and it's gonna be bloody.

--> '''Sanjuro:''' [[spoiler: Ryo]] is going to die, and it's going to be ''bloody''.

* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: Ryo has it out for Sanjuro due to the latter being a SpannerInTheWorks towards his corporate schemes, especially with the assassination of Ivan, previous head of the CMC. When Sanjuro accidentally gets involved in foiling even more of his machinations, Ryo intentionally manipulates him and then tries to screw him over at every possible turn, such as selling out Kura to the CMC and personally executing Hank in front of Sanjuro. That last act causes Sanjuro to invoke this trope himself, and kill off Ryo as the final fight of both story paths.]]

* ArmorIsUseless: The enemies come in many varieties; some sporting basic uniforms, others use power armor, and still others pilot ten foot tall mini-mecha. While the better armored opponents have more health, the weapons do enough damage that a shotgun blast or a short burst of automatic fire kills them all equally fast.

* OutsideContextProblem: The whole reason the Fallen exist to fend off the UCA and Ryo's Shogo corporation? [[spoiler: Cothineal, a StarfishAlien that happens to apparently be the source of the highly valuable Kato energy both factions seek, as it made Toshiro and Baku into the BrainwashedAndCrazy Gabriel and Uziel respectively to protect the planet. No one really seems to be too concerned about a sentient alien at large, though, and focus more on Gabriel and Ryo.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Less that she doesn't like them and more that [[spoiler: Kura]] kind of had to escape capture and probably lost them. Nonetheless she runs around barefoot. Less explainable is Kathryn's model having the same barefoot status, unless those are conspicuously skin-colored shoes.

** The same happens involving [[spoiler:Cothineal, as its very existence drops off the face of the plot despite being integral to Toshiro becoming Gabriel and the Fallen being formed in the first place. The only way to get any resolution is to fight the Fallen instead - where it just sort of appears, gets defeated, and the story ends before anything is explained about it.]]

* OffModel: Between the box art and opening artwork, the official artwork for every character, the in-game dialogue portraits, and the actual character models being pretty damn fugly, ''no one'' looks very consistent beyond their base design idea. The best example is Sanjuro himself, as none of his designs seem to match up whatsoever between all three, and his various artwork can't even decide if he's got black or [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue]] hair.

* OutsideContextProblem: The whole reason the Fallen exist to fend off the UCA and Ryo's Shogo corporation? [[spoiler: Cothineal, a StarfishAlien that happens to apparently be the source of the highly valuable Kato energy both factions seek, as it made Toshiro and Baku into the BrainwashedAndCrazy Gabriel and Uziel respectively to protect the planet. No one really seems to be too concerned about a sentient alien at large, though, and if Sanjuro sides with Gabriel then it never really comes up again as it honors its word of support; opting to fight the Fallen instead has it appear as part of the FinalBoss with providing shields to Gabriel's MCA, complete with the periodic EvilLaugh, before it just sorta.. disappears with the implication that you killed it. Or something.]]

* TimedMission: [[spoiler: In the final events of the story path where you join Gabriel/Toshiro and fight back against your former allies, Admiral Akkaraju goes off the deep end and decides that the whole of Chronus needs to be purged by OrbitalBombardment from the Kato Cannon, regardless of the countless citizen lives still on-planet - and if you don't shut off the cannon in time, it ''will'' fire and net you a NonStandardGameOver.]]

* ObviousBeta: Bits of story are missing and made up for with large exposition blocks between levels, various assets are particularly unpolished (especially with Uziel[[spoiler:/Baku]], who wields a scaled-up Juggernaut, blurry textures and all), bugs persist throughout the entire game and other problems. As a result, Shogo feels more like you're playing an unfinished product than it probably should. Considering this game predated ''[[{{VideoGame/Blood}} Blood II]]'' by only a month during a rather tight time for Monolith and even shared the same engine, it's not hard to see why.
* OutsideContextProblem: The whole reason the Fallen exist to fend off the UCA and Ryo's Shogo corporation? [[spoiler: Cothineal, a StarfishAlien that happens to apparently be the source of the highly valuable Kato energy both factions seek, as it made Toshiro and Baku into the BrainwashedAndCrazy Gabriel and Uziel respectively to protect the planet. No one really seems to be too concerned about a sentient alien protecting the planet, though, and if Sanjuro sides with Gabriel then it never really comes up again as it honors its word of support; opting to fight the Fallen instead has it appear as part of the FinalBoss with providing shields to Gabriel's MCA, complete with the periodic EvilLaugh, before it just sorta.. disappears with the implication that you killed it. Or something.]]

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Well, not necessarily nowhere, as the cast talk about [[spoiler:Cothineal]] well before the end game, but if you opt to fight the Fallen, [[spoiler: it appears as the only alien in the entire game and the means of empowering Toshiro's MCA for the FinalBoss, complete with an occasional EvilLaugh, and then basically disappears after the fight with the only implication being that you killed it. Or something.]] At least it's a better resolution than siding with the Fallen, though, because [[spoiler: Cothineal disappears from the plot altogether in that one ''despite'' still being in control of Toshiro and using Sanjuro to keep Chronus out of Ryo's and the UCA's clutches.]]

* ObviousBeta: Bits of story are missing and made up for with large exposition blocks between levels, various assets are particularly unpolished (especially with [[spoiler: Baku]], who wields a scaled-up Juggernaut, blurry textures and all), bugs persist throughout the entire game and other problems. As a result, Shogo feels more like you're playing an unfinished product than it probably should. Considering this game predated ''[[{{VideoGame/Blood}} Blood II]]'' by only a month and shared the same engine, it's not hard to see why.

* ObviousBeta: Bits of story are missing and made up for with large exposition blocks between levels, various assets are particularly unpolished (especially with [[spoiler: Baku]], who wields a scaled-up Juggernaut, blurry textures and all), bugs persist throughout the entire game and other problems. As a result, Shogo feels more like you're playing an unfinished product than it probably should. Considering this game followed ''[[{{VideoGame/Blood}} Blood II]]'' by only a year and shared the same engine, it's not hard to see why.

''Shogo: Mobile Armor Division'' is a FirstPersonShooter developed and published by Creator/MonolithProductions in 1998. It was notable for being the first game to use the Lithtech GameEngine, which would later be used (in updated versions of course) in many other Monolith games. While the game was American-made, its main influence was the HumongousMecha genre of anime and manga, especially RealRobot series such as ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'', ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'', and ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}''.