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Please note that this is the Gundam Wiki's article on PlayStation 2 game; if you are looking for the article on the movie it draws its plot from then you should head to Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space (機動戦士ガンダムめぐりあい宇宙 Kidou Senshi Gundam: Meguriai Sora^?) is a Third-person shooter video game for the PlayStation 2 released in 2003. The game is centered on space based mobile suit combat. Developed and published by Bandai, the game is based on the Universal Century timeline of the popular Gundam franchise.

Rather than tell a single continuous story, the single-player game in Encounters in Space is broken up into a few short vignettes that take place over the course of four years. These vignettes are accounts of several significant battles during and after the One Year War between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon.

The main story mode of Encounters in Space is essentially a game adaptation of the Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space compilation movie, and it also serves as a sequel of sorts to the previous PS2 game Journey to Jaburo (whose story mode covered Mobile Suit Gundam I and Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow). Furthermore, as with Journey to Jaburo, the main story mode of Encounters in Space features new 2D-animated cutscenes of the Mobile Suit Gundam series.

Gameplay

The game takes place entirely in Outer Space, although the Moon, space colonies, and asteroids are sometimes visited. The player pilots a wide variety of Mobile Suits, Mobile Armors, and other spacecraft throughout several different zero gravity environments. Also thrusters can be used to give these mobile weapons a temporary boost in speed and maneuverability. These vehicles can move forward, backward, and side to side using the left analog stick and can move up and down using the R1 and R2 buttons, allowing for 360 degree combat. The game is mostly free roaming, although a few rail shooter sections are commonly encountered.

Players choose from a large assortment of different main, sub, and melee weapons that very greatly between different units. Certain crafts are also equipped with a special attack, which can be activated once a special meter has been filled. The game is divided into several different story modes, each corresponding to a different pilot or setting. These pilots range from main characters of the original Gundam series to lesser known pilots from the Gundam manga. The game also includes a two player multiplayer vs. mode. Players can also play against AI units in multiplayer. Finally there is a mode where players can create their own unique pilots for use in multiplayer.

White Base: Play through the One Year War as Amuro Ray in the RX-78-2 Gundam. The story is based on the movie trilogy though it is possible to unlock the original TV run, revealing additional units to fight against and unlock.
Thoroughbred: Play through a new story of the One Year War made for the game. The chosen pilot is Ford Romfellow, pilot of a testbed Gundam called G05 and is partnered with Luce Cassel of the brother unit G04. Depending on how well the player performed at a certain point, the story will branch off into one of two scenarios.
Ace Pilot: Play through a series of missions following significant or noteworthy mobile suit pilots such as Char Aznable, Yuu Kajima from the Blue Destiny game or Kou from Stardust Memory (which also uses clips from said OVA).
Mission mode: Create a Zeon or Federation pilot for use in Versus mode. The pilot is put through a training regime of eight missions. Players can use points earned from missions to increase their stats or give them special abilities. What suits they are allowed to sortie in depends on their rank, which increases with every mission success, piloting grunt mobile suits on lower ranks to piloting Gundams and Mobile Armors in the higher-ups. It is also possible to unlock additional mobile suits after completing specific missions on a high difficulty level.
Versus mode: A one-to-two-player splitscreen mode. Hidden units and characters that were unlocked along with a few extras can be used as well. Players can assemble a squad of up to three pilots but are limited to what suits they can use depending on their point value. Additionally, only two pilots on a team at a time can be used if one of them is using a Mobile Armor (indicated by an L icon).

Characters

Earth Federation

Principality of Zeon

Extras

List of Mechanics

Earth Federation

Mobile Suits

RB-79 Ball
- RB-79K Ball Type K
RGM-79 GM
- RGM-79 GM Jack Bayard Custom
- RGM-79GS GM Command Space Type
- RGM-79SP GM Sniper II
- RGM-79N GM Custom
RX-75 Guntank Mass Production Type
RX-77-2 Guncannon
RX-78-2 Gundam
- RX-78-3 Gundam "G-3"
- RX-78NT-1 Gundam "Alex"
- FA-78-1 Full Armor Gundam
- RX-78-4 Gundam Unit 4 "G04"
- RX-78-5 Gundam Unit 5 "G05"
RX-79BD-3 Blue Destiny Unit 3
RX-78GP03S Gundam "Dendrobium Stamen"
RX-78GP01-Fb Gundam "Zephyranthes" Full Burnern
RX-78GP04G Gundam "Gerbera"
RX-78GP03 Gundam "Dendrobium"
G-Fighter
G-Armor

Vehicles and Support Units

Public-class
FF-S3 Saberfish
FF-X7 Core Fighter
FF-X7-Bst Core Booster
Pegasus class (refit) (Thoroughbred)
Salamis-class
Salamis Kai-class (0083 Refit)
Pegasus-class Assault Carrier (White Base)
Columbus-class Transport
Birmingham-class
MSC-07 Albion
Magellan-Class Battleship

Principality of Zeon

Mobile Suits

Vehicles and Support Units

Extras

Cosmic Era

Future Century

After Colony

Universal Century

Gallery

Products

References

Notes

In the original, Japanese release of this game, the G, Wing and SEED units, along with the G and Wing pilots, were actually downloadable content for the game. However, as America didn't have a system like that set up, Wing Gundam Zero, Tallgeese III, God/"Burning" Gundam, Master Gundam, Aile Strike Gundam, and Aegis Gundam were included in the American release for free, but the Zaku II Shaku Yumiko Custom, Casval's Gundam, and Rick Dom C.A. Custom were not included (Though Anavel Gato's Custom Rick Dom, which carries exactly the same model number, stats, and even the beam bazooka is still included, and may be acquired after defeating it in the "What-If" Scenario at the Battle of Solomon in the "White Base" Story Mode.)
For the English release, due to Bandai using Ocean Studios for dubbing most of the various Gundam anime series at the time (beginning with Gundam Wing), characters and scenes from Stardust Memory and characters from War in the Pocket were re-dubbed with new voice actors, as they were originally dubbed by Bang-Zoom!

External links

Universal Century
TV series	The Origin Advent of the Red Comet \| Mobile Suit Gundam \| Zeta Gundam \| Gundam ZZ \| Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 \| Victory Gundam Comprehensive Episode Listing
Films and OVAs	Thunderbolt \| MS IGLOO — The Hidden One Year War — Apocalypse 0079 — The Gravity Front \| The 08th MS Team — Miller's Report \| 0080: War in the Pocket \| 0083: Stardust Memory \| Char's Counterattack \| Unicorn \| Twilight Axis \| Narrative \| Hathaway \| F91 \| Mission to the Rise \| Ring of Gundam \| Gundam Evolve \| Green Divers \| G-Saviour \| THE ORIGIN \| Cucuruz Doan's Island
Events	One Year War \| Antarctic Treaty \| Granada Treaty \| Operation Stardust \| Gryps Conflict \| Neo Zeon Movements \| Late Universal Century
Topics	Vessels and spacecraft \| Characters \| Locations \| Mobile Weapons — Mobile Suit Variation — MS-X — MSV-R \| Nations and Factions \| Newtype \| Technology \| Weapons
Books and Manga	Advance of Zeta: The Flag of Titans — Traitor To Destiny — Traitor to Destiny: Blue Wings of the AEUG — Traitor to Destiny Extra Compilation: Mace of Judgment — Gundam Inle \| Beltorchika’s Children (Manga) — Beltorchika’s Children (Novel) — High Streamer \| Char’s Deleted Affair: Portrait of Young Comet — One Day: Haman's Deleted Affair \| Crossbone Gundam — Skull Heart — Steel 7 — Ghost — Dust — X-11 — Love & Piece \| Battlefield Record U.C. 0081 -The Wrath of Varuna- \| École du Ciel \| The Plot to Assassinate Gihren \| Gaia Gear \| Gundam F90 \| F90: Fastest Formula \| Gundam Silhouette Formula 91 in UC 0123 \| Formula Wars 0122 \| Unicorn — Bande Dessinee — Bande Dessinee Episode: 0 — The Truth of E.F.F. — The Noble Shroud — The War After the War \| Sentinel \| Record of MS Wars — Record of MS Wars II \| We're Federation Hooligans!! — Katana \| Hathaway's Flash \| Night=Hawks! \| Side Story: The Blue Destiny \| Moon Crisis \| Gigantis' Counterattack \| Double-Fake — Almarya \| Victory Gundam Side Story \| Stampede: The Story of Professor Minovsky \| MSV-R: The Return of Johnny Ridden \| Another Z Gundam Story — MAD WANG 1160 \| Outer Gundam — REON \| For the Barrel \| The Origin \| The Revival of Zeon — New Revival of Zeon \| Lost War Chronicles — Space, To the End of a Flash — 0083 Rebellion — Gundam Legacy \| Hero of Stardust \| Zeta Gundam 1/2 \| War in the Pocket \| Zeta Gundam Define \| G-Saviour \| SECRET FORMULA \| Ganota no Onna \| Thunderbolt \| GEARA DOGA Variations \| MS Graphica \| Moon \| Walpurgis \| Battle Operation Code Fairy
Video Games	Lost War Chronicles \| Gundam 0079: The War for Earth \| Mobile Ops: The One Year War \| The Blue Destiny \| Crossfire/Target in Sight \| Journey to Jaburo \| Zeonic Front \| Mobile Suit Gundam: EX Revue \| Spirits of Zeon - Dual Stars of Carnage \| Cross Dimension 0079 \| Mobile Suit Gundam F91: Formula Report 0122 \| Advanced Operation \| Rise From The Ashes \| Tactics Mobility Fleet 0079 \| Battlefield Record U.C. 0081 \| Gundam vs. Gundam — NEXT — Extreme Vs. — Extreme Vs. Full Boost \| Gundam UC [The Postwar] \| Battle Operation — 2 — Code Fairy \| Gundam 0079 Card Builder \| G-Saviour
Related	Gundam Fix Figuration \| Gunpla — High Grade Universal Century — Master Grade - Perfect Grade — Real Grade \| Mobile Weapons \| MS Girl \| Plamo-Kyoshiro \| SD Gundam — SD Gundam G Generation \| Super Robot Wars \| Gundam the Ride \| Gundam Crisis \| Bonds of the Battlefield \| Harmony of Gundam \| G-STRATEGY
Timelines	Ad Stella \| Advanced Generation \| After Colony \| After War \| Anno Domini \| Build Fighters \| Correct Century \| Cosmic Era \| Future Century \| Mars Century \| Post Disaster \| Regild Century \| SD Gundam \| Universal Century

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-}}'''Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space''' (Kidou Senshi Gundam: Meguriai Sora 機動戦士ガンダム：宇宙での出会い) is a Third-person shooter video game for the PlayStation 2 released in 2003. The game is centered on space based mobile suit combat. Developed and published by Bandai, the game is based on the [[Universal Century]] timeline of the popular Gundam franchise.
+}}{{nihongo|'''Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space'''|機動戦士ガンダム めぐりあい宇宙|Kidou Senshi Gundam: Meguriai Sora}} is a Third-person shooter video game for the PlayStation 2 released in 2003. The game is centered on space based mobile suit combat. Developed and published by Bandai, the game is based on the [[Universal Century]] timeline of the popular Gundam franchise.
 Rather than tell a single continuous story, the single-player game in ''Encounters in Space'' is broken up into a few short vignettes that take place over the course of four years. These vignettes are accounts of several significant battles during and after the [[One Year War]] between the [[Earth Federation]] and the [[Principality of Zeon]].
-The main story mode of ''Encounters in Space'' is essentially a game adaptation of the third ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' compilation movie (also titled ''Encounters in Space''), and it also serves as a sequel of sorts to the previous PS2 game ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo|Journey to Jaburo]]'', whose story mode covered the first two ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' compilation movies. Also as with ''Journey to Jaburo'', the main story mode of ''Encounters in Space'' features newly hand animated cutscenes of ''Mobile Suit Gundam.''
+The main story mode of ''Encounters in Space'' is essentially a game adaptation of the ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space]]'' compilation movie, and it also serves as a sequel of sorts to the previous PS2 game ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo|Journey to Jaburo]]'' (whose story mode covered ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam I]]'' and ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow]]''). Furthermore, as with ''Journey to Jaburo'', the main story mode of ''Encounters in Space'' features new 2D-animated cutscenes of the ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' series.
 ==Gameplay==
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 *'''White Base''': Play through the One Year War as Amuro Ray in the RX-78-2 Gundam. The story is based on the movie trilogy though it is possible to unlock the original TV run, revealing additional units to fight against and unlock.
-*'''Thoroughbred''': Play through a new story of the One Year War made for the game. The chosen pilot is Ford Romfellow, pilot of a testbed Gundam called G05 and is partnered with Luce Kassel of the brother unit G04. Depending on how well the player performed at a certain point, the story will branch off into one of two scenarios.
+*'''Thoroughbred''': Play through a new story of the One Year War made for the game. The chosen pilot is Ford Romfellow, pilot of a testbed Gundam called G05 and is partnered with Luce Cassel of the brother unit G04. Depending on how well the player performed at a certain point, the story will branch off into one of two scenarios.
 *'''Ace Pilot''': Play through a series of missions following significant or noteworthy mobile suit pilots such as Char Aznable, Yuu Kajima from the Blue Destiny game or Kou from Stardust Memory (which also uses clips from said OVA).
 *'''Mission mode''': Create a Zeon or Federation pilot for use in Versus mode. The pilot is put through a training regime of eight missions. Players can use points earned from missions to increase their stats or give them special abilities. What suits they are allowed to sortie in depends on their rank, which increases with every mission success, piloting grunt mobile suits on lower ranks to piloting Gundams and Mobile Armors in the higher-ups. It is also possible to unlock additional mobile suits after completing specific missions on a high difficulty level.
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 *[[Christina Mackenzie]]
 *[[Jack Bayard]]
-*[[Luce Kassel]]
+*[[Luce Cassel]]
 *[[Ford Romfellow]]
 *Keith Rhee
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 ====Mobile Suits====
 *[[RB-79 Ball]]
-*[[RB-79K Ball Type K]]
+**[[RB-79K Ball Type K]]
 *[[RGM-79 GM]]
-*RGM-79 GM Jack Bayard Custom
+**RGM-79 GM Jack Bayard Custom
-*[[RGM-79GS GM Command Space Type]]
+**[[RGM-79GS GM Command Space Type]]
-*[[RGM-79SP GM Sniper II]]
+**[[RGM-79SP GM Sniper II]]
-*[[RGM-79N GM Custom]]
+**[[RGM-79N GM Custom]]
 *[[RX-75 Guntank Mass Production Type]]
 *[[RX-77-2 Guncannon]]
 *[[RX-78-2 Gundam]]
-*[[RX-78-3 Gundam "G-3"]]
+**[[RX-78-3 Gundam "G-3"]]
-*[[RX-78NT-1 Gundam "Alex"]]
+**[[RX-78NT-1 Gundam "Alex"]]
-*[[FA-78-1 Gundam Full Armor Type]]
+**[[FA-78-1 Full Armor Gundam]]
-*[[RX-78-4 Gundam Unit 4 "G04"]]
+**[[RX-78-4 Gundam Unit 4 "G04"]]
-*[[RX-78-5 Gundam Unit 5 "G05"]]
+**[[RX-78-5 Gundam Unit 5 "G05"]]
 *[[RX-79BD-3 Blue Destiny Unit 3]]
 *[[RX-78GP03S Gundam "Dendrobium Stamen"]]
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 ====Vehicles and Support Units====
-*[[Jicco Class|Jicco Assault Boat]]
+*[[Jicco-class|Jicco Assault Boat]]
 *[[Gattle]]
-*[[Chivvay class]]
+*[[Chivvay-class]]
 *[[Cui]]
 *[[Dolos-class]]
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 *[[Papua-class]]
 *[[Pazock-class]]
+*[[Sodon]]
 *[[Zanzibar-class]]
 *[[Zanzibar II-class]]
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 ====Future Century====
-*[[GF13-017NJII God Gundam|GF13-017NJII Burning Gundam]]
+*[[GF13-017NJII God Gundam|GF13-017NJII God/Burning Gundam]]
 *[[GF13-001NHII Master Gundam]]
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 ==Gallery==
 <gallery captionalign="left">
--582582 46620 front.jpg|Front Cover
-1279160281-01.jpg|Back Cover
-1279160282-00.jpg|Disc
 msgeispace_120503_inline_01.jpg|Gameplay
+</gallery>
+==Products==
+<gallery captionalign="left">
+-582582 46620 front.jpg|Encounters in Space (regular release): front cover
+1279160281-01.jpg|Encounters in Space (regular release): back cover
+1279160282-00.jpg|Encounters in Space (regular release): game disc
+MSiA_rx-78-4_p00_PS2GameSoft_01_front.jpg|Sony PlayStation 2 [[Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space]] (Limited Box; 2003): package front view.
+MSiA_rx-78-4_p00_PS2GameSoft_02_back.jpg|Sony PlayStation 2 Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space (Limited Box; 2003): package rear view encased with [[Mobile Suit in Action!!|Mobile Suit in Action (MSiA / MIA)]] "RX-78-4 Gundam Unit 4 "G04"" action figure.
+MSiA_rx-78-4_p00_PS2GameSoft_03_closeup.jpg|Close-up of MSiA / MIA "RX-78-4 Gundam Unit 4 "G04"" action figure from Sony PlayStation 2 "Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounter in Space" (Limited Box; 2003)
 </gallery>
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 ==Notes==
 * In the original, Japanese release of this game, the G, Wing and SEED units, along with the G and Wing pilots, were actually downloadable content for the game. However, as America didn't have a system like that set up, Wing Gundam Zero, Tallgeese III, God/"Burning" Gundam, Master Gundam, Aile Strike Gundam, and Aegis Gundam were included in the American release for free, but the Zaku II Shaku Yumiko Custom, Casval's Gundam, and Rick Dom C.A. Custom were not included (Though Anavel Gato's Custom Rick Dom, which carries exactly the same model number, stats, and even the beam bazooka is still included, and may be acquired after defeating it in the "What-If" Scenario at the Battle of Solomon in the "White Base" Story Mode.)
-* For the English release, due to Bandai using voice actors from Ocean Group for the anime from ''[[New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'' forward, characters and scenes from ''Gundam 0083'' and characters from ''Gundam 0080'' were redone as they were originally done by Bang-Zoom!
+* For the English release, due to Bandai using Ocean Studios for dubbing most of the various Gundam anime series at the time (beginning with ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Wing]]''), characters and scenes from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Stardust Memory]]'' and characters from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket|War in the Pocket]]'' were re-dubbed with new voice actors, as they were originally dubbed by Bang-Zoom!
 ==See also==
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 {{Universal Century}}
-[[Category:Video Games]]