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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 is.

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.

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
 * We Are Brothers
 * Performed by: Super Robot Music All Stars
 * Composed by: Hironobu Kageyama
 * Lyrics by: Hironobu Kageyama
 * Arranged by: Daisuke Kikuta

Trivia

 * 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.
 * 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 series in a Super Robot Wars game.