Steambot Chronicles: Battle Tournament for the PSP is a spin-off of a PS2 game called Steambot Chronicles. Blending together a turn-of-the-century world with steampunk sensibilities, publisher Atlus and developer Irem task players with taking control of bipedal automobiles called Trotmobiles to try and reach the summit of Orion City's Trotmobile tournaments. Does it live up to the underrated title that it was spawned from or does the PSP outing run out of steam? Let's find out.

Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament kinda comes across as a clunkier steampunk version of the Armored Core games. The similarity is mostly superficial, though, as Steambot Chronicles has a deeper RPG aspect compared to the latter. On the US PlayStation blog, the game's lead editor, Mike Meeker, gave out a few details regarding this upcoming action-RPG title from Atlus. Read on for more.