Your mech is armed with a set of weapons strapped to either arm, usually a gun on the right, and missiles on the left. With those major drawbacks, the tragedy is that Front Mission Evolved is really fun to play. This can easily be rectified with DLC, but we'll have to wait and see. After a night or two of playing it is conceivable that you would have most, if not all of the maps memorized. A modern game with online multi-player needs to have more maps. The other big drawback is that there are only five multi-player maps. If you have a large group of friends, this could be a major reason to pass on this game in favor of other shooters that allow you and all your friends to play together. 4 team deathmatch or all eight in free for all. The player cap is one of the major downfalls of the multi-player, maxing out at eight players, either in 4 vs. Though with only a maximum of eight players per match, the map size is manageable. The mech you control seems approximately 15 feet tall, and it takes what would seem like a decent size map for human characters, and makes it feel a cramped for the large mechs. The map we played on featured a dam as the central battle area which was surrounded by rocky paths. While at NYCC 2010, Jon Lavallee and I got a chance to get some hands on time with the multi-player to see just that. Because of that, it was interesting to see how Double Helix Games would bring this IP into the shooter realm. The recently released, Front Mission Evolved took up the most space for visitors to play.Įvolved is the first game in the Front Mission series to be played primarily as a 3rd person shooter, as opposed to the strategy games normal to the series. With Square Enix's upcoming releases of Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded, Deus Ex:Human Revolution and Final Fantasy XIV, it was curious to see that the game that had the most screens at Square Enix’s booth at New York Comic Con was none of the above.

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