Well I have it if you really want to watch it, I can bring it over. The realistic type animation looks pretty good, but all the characters are supposed to look hand-drawn or something and it works sometimes but othertimes not so well. Like this one girl in it looks way too cheesy BESM anime style and it just looks dumb. The story is also pretty generic like you said. The fights in the mechas are pretty cool, it reminds me a lot of Armored Core. In fact, the computer system trying to run everything also reminds me of Armored Core.
If you are a fan of the Armored Core games, then you'll probably dig the fighting like me. If not, then I don't think this show has much to offer. Most of it is just about introducing you to this fantasy world, then a quickie battle at the end to "save" the world. There is this one guy who is supposed to be 75% robot (according to the blurb on the cd cover anyway), he is probably the most interesting person in the show. Sort of like um RoboCop, Vader, General Grievous, etc. Even with his mecha-like body, he's also got a special mecha on top of that.