(PSX) Front Mission 3 - (NTSC-U) (327MB)

rathemoon · #1 01-25-2006, 01:40 AM

Front Mission 3 is a turn-based strategy game with a Double Feature Scenario. It allows the player to choose one of two completely different viewpoints towards the same general plot of the game. Each scenario features 8 characters with their own unique robots.

After numerous wars and terrorist attacks, Yokosuka had finally entered a state of peace; it would last only 10 short years. A deadly explosion rocked the continent, disrupting peace and causing a worldwide panic.

After playing the greatest turn based strategy of all time (Final Fantasy Tactics), I was convinced that Squaresoft was the ultimate gaming company. Keeping the faith, I got this game, not knowing what to expect, and the rest is history (and so are the hundreds of enemies they pitched at me).

In this game, you lead a character and his freinds through the 22nd century as you search for a mighty device called MIDAS, an energy creator that can be used for good, but is just too easy to turn into a bomb of mass destruction. As you go along, you fight evil from around the world, like the Japanese Defence Force (JDF), the United States Navy (USN), and even super-humans called "Imaginary Numbers" of the Chinese "Da Han Zhong" (DHZ). Combating them you are eventually pitted in almost 200 different battles, each with a different map and group of enemies.

The battle system is the core, where you select methods of defending yourself from the enemies, and which people to choose with their specialities to blow the enemy away. A few times I got pitted against enemies I just couldn't beat, but for the most part, it was very clean and rather simple (not like Final Fantasy Tactics, which was unbelievably hard).

With the battles and the talking sequences, you have some decent graphics and music. While I'll wait a while before I buy the soundtrack for this game, I will say that the music ranges from kinda weak techno to some awesome stuff. The graphics also could use a polishing, but all the required things are here (except a big explosion when a wanzer dies). When attacking your enemies, you go into a really awesome sequence of camera movement or angles. This adds almost a western style of shooting others, but you can still see that you are in a modern city with futuristic machines.

All in all, while many will argue that Final Fantasy Tactics was the better game (I think I might too, actually), there is no denial that this is quite possibly the only game in the world of the genre at the same level as FFTactics. This game is awesome, a change of scene from the midevil madness with Kartia, Vandal Hearts and FFTactics, and is good training for the harder ones, esspecially FFTactics.

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I, love this game and hope everyone here enjoys it, I would have broke this into multi parts but i dont got the time agian lol.

Enjoy.

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