Платформа: Sony PSX
Разработчик: Squaresoft
Год выпуска: 1997
Оригинальное описание/релиз: If you know what Squaresoft's Front Mission series is all about, you'll have a good chance at guessing just what kind of game Front Mission Alternative turned out to be. Front Mission, which originated back in the Famicom days, is a tactical turn-based strategy series set in the near future where war is waged in giant bipedal robots. But this latest installment takes the theme and premise of the series and applies it to a simpler, more cinematic framework. The result is visually and sonically stunning but may leave the hard-core strategist feeling shortchanged.
What's most disconcerting about Front Mission Alternative is its gameplay, or how little of it there is. The first few missions are stupidly easy; you push the start button to pause the game and bring up an overhead map and tell the blue dot (your platoon) to move to the red dots (the bad guys). Then you just sit back and enjoy the show. Your WAWs will march toward their targets, getting stuck against each other and against any walls that get in their way, until they get in range of the enemy. Then they start shooting until the enemy stops moving. You have no control over your WAWs at all, other from defining either an offensive or a defensive style of attack. Worse yet, you must commit to one of these offense/defense designations across the entire platoon and can't issue orders to individual WAWs. The game does become more complex once you're controlling two or three platoons simultaneously, in which case you need to rapidly switch views between them and make sure they're all doing well. But essentially, the extent of the strategy in Front Mission Alternative lies in designating waypoints in a logical fashion. That's a terrifically boring concept in its own right, and were it not for the game's outstanding graphics and sound, Front Mission Alternative would invariably be a total dud.
Язык: Jap
Кол-во CD: 1
Размер архива: 154.6 Мб