Gundam is a metaseries of Japanese anime, featuring giant robots, or "mecha", created by Sunrise studios. The series started in April 1979 as a TV series called Mobile Suit Gundam, and later became a franchise name with more sequels, prequels, side stories and alternative timelines, published and aired in various media including TV anime, OVA, manga, novels, and video games. Gundam became a collective term for 7 different time lines, all featuring their own story-lines, with a few common denominators and war machines called Gundam.

This game takes places in the 0079 storyline and the game is an interactive movie in which to advance the player have to execute the proper action at the right time.

The game begins when Earth is attacked by an army of robots, the Gundam pilot (the player's character) goes in his car to the army base where Gundam in stored and as soon as he arrived he have to enter the robot and defeat an enemy, after that he have to get the shield and escape from the base defeating the enemies.