News: Front Mission Evolved

May 31, 2009, 02:14 AM

by ollie, via Square Enix -
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Square Enix are funding a new Front Mission game and Double Helix appear to be developing it. Despite the fact that action orientated Front Mission games tank horribly (Gun Hazard and Online did after all), I'm not entirely convinced of this setup.

Thankfully the mecha design is pretty faithful and the wanzers still retain their rollers it seems but on the whole mecha handling isn't done very well in the West (as many developers treat them as functional allegories to human protagonists). With any luck someone at Square Enix has played Yuke's latest Armored Trooper VOTOMS game, as that nails this type of mecha combat (and the AT's are about the same scale as the wanzers too!).

No word on when this will be out though, but it is being released cross platform at least. More screenshots are here.