New Front Mission to be an Action Shooter!
Submitted by jamesdt on 05/28/2009 – 1:22 pm6 Comments
Leaked scans from the latest issue of the Official XBOX Magazine have found their way onto the internet today bringing news of newest installment into the Front Mission franchise. The game, titled Front Mission Evolved, was previously thought to be an SRPG following in its predecessors’ roots. However the magazine scans confirm the unexpected; Front Mission Evolved will be an action-shooter.
Hoping to attract a larger Western audience this time around Square-Enix employed Double Helix Games, a U.S. based company and developers of the recently released Silent Hill: Homecoming, to aid in its transition from a strategic game into a more action oriented TPS.
Here’s to hoping Double Helix Games doesn’t screw this up.
I LOVED Gun Hazard (much more than the rest of the series, which IMHO is uniformly mediocre), but I’m fairly confident that Double Helix will totally screw this up.
Devs of the not-Silent Hill game Silent Hill: Homecoming? Yep. Train wreck incoming.
Oh god, no.
I wish they retained the SRPG Front Mission, but oh well. I too, expect this to become a complete failure. Still, here’s hoping.
Noooo!!! I loved the strategic RPG theme of this game! It was what made it so unique! If this happens it’ll be just like one of those mecha games…
It would be cool if they followed Valkyria Chronicles. SRPG during the preparation phase, and TPS during the action phase.
I could see that working — come to think of it, in the absence of details, that’s what they’re probably doing.