Ubisoft has announced that they’ll be releasing the next title in the long running Armored Core franchise. The thirteenth entry in the series, the game will release both on Xbox 360 and PS3. Some features include both co-op and competitive online play, changing the storyline through switching factions, three different endings, 40 battlefields and all the mech customizing action the series is known for.

In the distant future, massive urban development and pollution have critically damaged the planet. There is widespread fear that the end of the world is approaching. The League corporations, a military superpower, control the planet’s infrastructure and have forced most of the world’s population to live in huge aerial communities, called Cradles, to avoid the contamination. The ORCA, a rebel resistance still residing on the surface of the polluted planet, have amassed a formidable arsenal and are mobilizing to attack The League’s bases to put an end to their iron grip on the planet. As a mercenary armed with cutting-edge military robot technology, choose your side and defeat the other factions by harnessing the power of the deadliest and most gigantic weapons ever created by mankind.

Armored Core for Answer is due for release in September 2008.