What is Front Mission? Well, basically it's a turn-based strategy RPG with giant robots called Wanzers, although forget what you may have learned over the years with previous games in the series, waiting for your turn here is just going to result in your fiery death.

It was a brave move to step away from Front Mission's core SRPG audience, and it's difficult to see why that hardcore bunch would purchase this game – from that viewpoint it's disappointing because there's little to join this title up to the long running series.

Plenty of mech customisation; The cutscenes are watchable; The game over situation isn't torture

The combat is much the same over and over; Boss battles are mostly just health based; On foot missions could use more polish

Front Mission Evolved brings the classic Front Mission franchise into an action-packed third-person shooter that gives players full control of a massive humanoid war machine - the wanzer.

Where the problem lies is that regardless of whether this genre shift alienates existing fans, it won't win favour with any new gamers simply because it isn't a good game. In fact, it's a very mediocre game and instantly forgettable.

More like devolution.

Very responsive controls; an actual mech game with a story

Customization very watered down; lackluster multiplayer; boss battles have quite the difficulty curve; incompetent ally AI

Ever since RoboTech I've had a thing for big robots. And apparently I was not alone as they were everywhere. I tried to pilot some by playing MechWarrior, but they were simply not agile enough, big lumbering Mechs do not provide the same adrenaline.

I've played every front mission available in the US, and this one holds it's own in the series. Overall I loved it.

The graphics are great; the game play is solid and it has great customization of its wanzers

The story is a little thin by comparison to the previous games; I don't consider that an issue however as the game play is the real draw of this title

well square enix making a westernized game feels like activision making a jrpg. feels like i'm being patronized most of the story through XD, but overall the game is solid for those mech lovers out there.

Overall this game is an average 3rd person shooter with a mech twist. Despite being perched in the cockpit of a building sized walking battle tank, the game plays like any other 3rd person shooter - notably when you leave your mech (sorry... they call them wanzers...

not bad, but not outstanding. average graphics but strangely fun. set it on easy and a fun mindless mech shoot'em up