“This is an opportunity for us to truly widen the audience of the Armored Core games,” says Bandai Namco Europe CEO Arnaud Muller.

Publisher Bandai Namco things the popularity of Elden Ring will contribute to greater success for the recently-released mech action game Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Bandai Namco Europe CEO Arnaud Muller said that Elden Ring made developer FromSoftware’s name a “guarantee of quality”.

“This is an opportunity for us to truly widen the audience of the Armored Core games,” Muller told GI.biz. “My ambitions are not on par with Elden Ring, but our ambitions are way bigger than the previous Armored Core games.

“Thanks to Elden Ring, FromSoftware has become a seal, a guarantee of quality, and therefore people will see that the Metacritic of this game is great, [that] it’s challenging but very rewarding, [and say] ‘I wanna try that game’.”

“This is a big step up in this franchise,” he added. “We are not going to be able to match Elden Ring numbers but we will way surpass what Armored Core previous games have done.

“We have a great game in our hands, the gameplay, the battle system is very loyal to what FromSoftware fans are used to, so we really want to take this IP further in the relationship with FromSoftware. My expectation is that people who have discovered [their] games via Elden Ring will enjoy Armored Core.”

Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon was released on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S just last week after seeing quite a few trailers as part of its marketing. One of the more recent trailers outlined the game’s story, alongside giving us a look at its combat and missions.

For more details on Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, check out our review. And if you need some help with the game, here’s a complete list of all parts, as well as all the part container locations. Here’s also a list of all chapters in the game’s single-player campaign, which will take players around 24 hours to complete.