Front Mission Evolved

IGNGreg Miller

6/10

There are emblems to collect in the story and ranks to crawl through in multiplayer, but Front Mission Evolved just feels like a flat experience. The big ol’ mechs are here if you have a hankering to boost around and smash stuff, but it’s nothing revolutionary and doesn’t feel like a full-fledged game at times with its less-than-stellar story and matches that limp on.

VideogamerJamin Smith

6/10

Ultimately, Front Mission Evolved is another case of needless westernisation, something that Square Enix is becoming increasingly guilty of.

GameWatcherSimon Priest

0/10

Front Mission Evolved can sit well with mech game fans especially with its multiplayer. However as a third-person action shooter not very much stands out unless you quite enjoy boss battles with lots and lots of strafing, reloading, repairing and firing volley after volley of missiles, rockets and bullets. This you rinse and repeat whilst figuring out the best way to minimise you wanzer getting a face load of ouch, and mentally juggling spawn timers for more ammo and armour repair. There’s ...

Xbox AchievementsLee Abrahams (GT: jackanape)

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The name Front Mission takes me back to a glorious turn based RPG on the original PlayStation, made by the masters of the genre Square, it was one of the few games in the series to make it all the way to Europe. Since then we’ve seen a whole host of additions to the series, though not always in the traditional turn based mould. The newest version, and first on the Xbox 360, is a third-person shooter that seems to owe more to Western influences and games like Armoured Core, rather than any o...