Gameplanet: "What happens when you take a series that has based itself around statistics, grids and menus; a series about strategy and tactics and then reduce it to a game about headlong rushes and spray-and-pray combat? You get Front Mission Evolved, the fifth game in the Front Mission series, and one that will surely disappoint long time fans.
The game will be of interest to two types of people; the mech-head crowd and Front Mission fans. Both may be disappointed. Though the Front Mission franchise fits into the mech fighter genre easily it’s in the implementation that it falls apart."
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.