Armored Core

Armored Core is a mecha video game released in 1997, the first in the Armored Core series. It is an action game played from third-person perspective.

In the presumably distant future, the vast majority of Earth's population is wiped out by a cataclysmic war known as the Great Destruction. The harsh conditions that result force the few remaining survivors to live underground for fifty years, during which time corporations come to power.