Throughout the game, the player therefore adopts the point of view of a unnamed hero which is referred to as 'gundam' despite that being the name of the robot mech that is the namesake of the franchise and not the main hero of the original anime (Amuro Ray).
Several epic battles allow the Federation to gradually regain the upper hand until the final victory, despite heavy losses, including in the entourage of the player.
The story continues as in the series, with the White Base operating several dangerous missions against Zeon and its elite pilot, Char Aznable, as the player develops newtype (evolved human) talents. There, he enlisted in a Federation ship named White Base, under the command of Bright Noa. In general panic, he takes control of a prototype mobile suit named Gundam and manages to instinctively pilot it for destroy an enemy and gain space. At first, the hero, a young civilian, finds himself embroiled in a Zeon attack on the neutral colony Side 7.
The story broadly follows the futuristic plot of the Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) series by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate, where the Duchy of Zeon, which includes several space colonies ruled with an iron fist by the Zabi family, rebels against the Terran Federation At that time, armies mainly used mobile suits, (literally 'mobile armor'): humanoid mechas of several meters built en masse.
