The first Super Robot Wars title to be created under Namco Bandai. In many ways, it broke certain precedents and traditions: for example, the number of new series is more than any previous SRW. In this game, you play as either Rand Travis, a wandering repairman/mechanic, who's partnered with the young Mel Beater, or Setsuko Ohara, a member of "Glory Star", a small military squadron in the Earth Federation , alongside teammates Denzel Hammer and Toby Watson, as they are pulled through many conflicts. The main plot point of the game is Super Dimension Century Orguss's dimension bomb, which fuses an array of parallel worlds into one. Battle animations are affected by whether engaging parties are airborne or on the ground, and in the case of certain attacks, whether or not they are used to land the final blow. It is the 20th best-selling game of Japan in 2008