The Front Mission strategy series has been around for ages but has struggled to find an audience outside Japan. It has its cult following, but it's not one of Square Enix's most recognizable franchises beyond its homeland. The publisher/developer is hoping to change that with Front Mission Evolved, a new entry in the mech series that ditches the strategy in favor of third-person shooting. IGN played through the Tokyo Game Show demo twice now and are impressed with most of it. Running around and blowing the crap out of things in your mech (or Wanzer, as they're called in the game) is great fun, but there are on-foot sections where you jump out of the machine and run around unshielded. So far, these sections are a bit of a mess.
TDS' lone Asian writer talks about an entry in the mech strategy series that never left Japanese shores.
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GNT: Welcome to Cracking the Case, a new feature that I am introducing on Game N Train. Each week, I will try out a new game and give you my first impressions on what this game does right and what this game does wrong.
Today, I’m Cracking the Case on Front Mission: Evolved, by Square Enix.
Its sad that games like this exemplify JP devs inability to make games for HD consoles.
Many Western devs for that matter.
