Front Mission 3 (USA) ISO

This is hands down my top game from my top 10 list. Imagine mechs known as Wanzers (from the German Wanderung Panzers) wreaking havoc in cities, fields and military bases! This game has so many things within it which makes it a clear underrated game by most.

This game is an RPG style game (turn based), which enables you to earn experience for your weapons of choice. Not only that, you get to choose the colour of your wanzers, their names, as well as what weapons you would like each of them to carry. Of course, this includes the body parts themselves.

Each body part has a specific skill which can be used during battle (they are automatic skills). You may equip shotguns, machine-guns, shoulder missile and grenade launchers, melee weapons, shields, booster packs and weight packs.

If the game itself was not interesting enough, it offers the player the chance to visit the game's internet system. Basically, you can view emails sent to you from different people ingame (as in ingame characters), as well as reply to most of them. Aside from this, you may also email the police department to let them know of criminals that you have seen (rewards are given for this). As from all this awesome stuff, you may visit websites to view information about central intelligence (spy) networks (and you can hack websites!), politics, journalism, city maintenance, military departments and so forth. This gives you a more indepth understanding of the game's intrigue (Squaresoft truly pulled it off with this game). Said like this, it sounds strange, but Squaresoft allows the player to immerse himself into the game from A-Z (clearly THE best Front Mission game of the series).

As if this was not good enough, you may choose different characters to play during the battles (you will have a certain amount of characters to choose from your pool of friends). And at times, you may also choose which would be the best path to attack from. During the battles, you can eject yourself should you so desire, as you may want to jump into a wanzer where the pilot was killed in action OR ejected by one of your friends (or yourself) and thus taking control of that wanzer. This said, both sides can eject pilots with a unique skill and thus the ejected pilot may thereafter be killed. As such, this makes for a more interesting gameplay, as you can capture enemy wanzers OR simply use other vehicles, such as helicopters or tanks (which cannot be captured after the battle is over - only wanzers can be captured after battle).

Even better, there are TWO CLEARLY distinct and completely different storylines! In the beginning of the game, you get to choose one of TWO paths. Of course, this is done in a subtle manner. Once you choose, most of your friends in that path are enemies in the other path and vice versa.

The plot is intriguing, and the gameplay is great. The moment I played the demo, I dreamt of buying the game (which I did!). This game is clearly one of the best games I have EVER played. Any RPG fan and mech fans owe it to themselves to play THIS game. This game for me, is better than even Final Fantasy VII, hands down. Needless to say, I love Final Fantasy VII. Furthermore, the game is filled with humour, darkness and betrayal and so much intrigue.

Finally, I have even written 4 distinct playing guides looking at the wanzer upgrades, the skills, and the ingame passwords for the websites in both storylines. This is how much I love the game. So if you ever want to look at those guides of mine, just look me up on emuparadise: midevil.chaos