X360A: "The name Front Mission takes me back to a glorious turn based RPG on the original PlayStation, made by the masters of the genre Square, it was one of the few games in the series to make it all the way to Europe. Since then we’ve seen a whole host of additions to the series, though not always in the traditional turn based mould. The newest version, and first on the Xbox 360, is a third-person shooter that seems to owe more to Western influences and games like Armoured Core, rather than any of its predecessors. I suppose the Evolved tag is rather appropriate then."
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.
