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Chou Super Robot Wars (超スーパーロボット大戦 Chō Supā Robotto Taisen, Ultra Super Robot Wars) is a crossover mecha tactical role-playing/fighting game developed by B.B. Studio and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. It was released in Japan on April 20, 2021 and in North America and Europe on October 1, 2021 as part of Super Robot Wars 30th anniversary. The game is a side-story of Project X Zone 3: War of Infinite Worlds, developed by the same crew a year after the release of its Ultimate Version and marking the first time the series crosses over to various video games franchises such as Capcom's Tech Romancer, Nintendo's Xenoblade Chronicles exclusive for the Nintendo Switch version, Namco's Xenosaga, Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog and many more. It was also the fourth game in the Super Robot Wars series to be released in North America after Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier and the first to be released on Europe.

With an extensive budget of ¥500,000,000 ($4,540,000), the game was a commercial and critical success, having shipped 800,000 units in the first month of Japanese release and sold 8 million by the end of the year, being the highest-selling game in the Super Robot Wars franchise.

Production
On June 13, 2019, Sam Imbecile, one of the head writers and developers of Project X Zone 3, stated in E3 2019 that his next game project was a midquel to Project X Zone 3 where its story takes place during the events of the game. He also stated that it would be as large as the massive crossover game.

On September 6, Sam posted in Twitter: "My next game project? Think of it as Super Robot Wars on steroids, ecstasy, acid, meth, viagra and cocaine." and it became most liked and re-tweeted post of the year. As such, fans of Super Robot Wars and mecha anime in general were excited to see a new game in the series where it coincides with the events of Project X Zone 3.

Two weeks later, Sam announced the release of the new SRW game which was originally the same date of release as Project X Zone 3: Ultimate Edition. However, just like the case of Project X Zone 3, he had to research and marathon every anime in the mecha genre so that he could write the story of the next game, as well as play every single important Super Robot Wars game from the first to the latest. Therefore, the game's release date was delayed to a year later, appropriate for Super Robot Wars' 30th anniversary.

Gameplay
Chou Super Robot Wars marks a departure to the traditional gameplay that persists across the entire series as this is the first game in the series to come with multiple modes aside from the standard story RPG mode, composed of a total of 15 modes out of 18 menu select choices:
 * Story Mode - The game mode where the traditional Super Robot Wars gameplay takes into effect, where the player can progress through chapters of the canonical events of the game.
 * Single Play
 * Co-op
 * Campaign Mode -
 * Arcade Mode -
 * Versus Battle -
 * Tag Battle -
 * Elimination Match -
 * Battlefield Mode -
 * Robot Warfare -
 * Time Attack -
 * Survival Mode -
 * Tournament Mode -
 * Spectator Mode -
 * Mini-Games -
 * Online Mode -
 * Practice Mode -
 * Upgrades -
 * Gallery -
 * Options -

Plot
Taking place during the events of Project X Zone 3, various worlds across the Multiverse are merging slowly as one with the suspicion that a great evil is responsible for this.

Characters
(*) - Unlockable, playable later on in Story Mode (**) - Unlockable, unplayable in Story Mode (***) - Unplayable

Music
Opening Theme: Ending Theme:
 * TRANSFORMERS EVO.
 * Performed by: JAM Project
 * Composed by: Hironobu Kageyama
 * Lyrics by: Hironobu Kageyama
 * Arranged by: Daisuke Kikuta
 * Chōdenji ~We are Brothers 2021~
 * Performed by: Super Robot Music All Stars
 * Composed by: AYANO (of FULL AHEAD)
 * Lyrics by: Shoko Fujibayashi
 * Arranged by: Daisuke Kikuta

Trivia

 * Not counting the mobile game Super Robot Wars X-Ω, Chou Super Robot Wars surpasses 3rd Super Robot Wars Z as the game with the largest playable cast in the series.
 * As a side-story to Project X Zone 3, characters, villains and plot elements from the game are also present here. Many other characters only appear in cameos in cutscenes.
 * References from Project X Zone 3 are also made in various points of the game.
 * The last chapters of the game also take place at the same time and place as PXZ3's final events.
 * This is the first game in the Super Robot Wars series to feature characters from the Transformers franchise.
 * The appearances of the Transformers characters in the game are reminiscent of their designs in Michael Bay's Transformers cinematic series.
 * It is also the first Super Robot Wars game to feature Capcom, Square Enix, Konami, Sony and Nintendo game franchises.
 * As well, it is the first game in the franchise to feature characters and stories exclusive to a different console port of the game.
 * To celebrate the 55th anniversary of Ultraman, the 50th anniversary of Kamen Rider and the 45th anniversary of Super Sentai, characters from these respective franchises appear in this game. This also marks the first appearance of a character(s) from the Ultra and Kamen Rider series in a Super Robot Wars game.