Cool I get to customize my own Wanzer!? Well, sort of. The thing is that you can customize to some extent but each level has a mandatory customization. The stickers for the Wanzer seemed like a really cool collectable, but it turns out they are so far and few between that getting them is trivial at...

A game where you control giant robots and at the same time fight in crowded cities, this has to be great, no? Well, Square-Enix and Double Helix prove it isn't with Front Mission Evolved!

Back in the era of the original PlayStation, I'd played Front Mission 3 and found it to be a pretty enjoyable turn-based strategy game taking place in a future full of intrigue and conspiracy.

Front Mission Evolved is set in a near future in which people have apparently evolved enough to develop space elevators, but not enough to stop shooting at each other for pointless reasons.

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.

Evolved is a strange subtitle for the latest entry in Square-Enix's long-running military drama, Front Mission . Not because the game's fast-paced shooting is a step down in sophistication from the series' strategic role-playing roots, but because it trades the series' philosophical, affecting...

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

Front Mission Evolved may be one of the most misleadingly named games released in a long time. You'd expect the game to be well, an evolution, of the long-running Front Mission franchise.

A fast-paced Front Mission reboot minus the RPG gameplay of previous games; Solid mission variety and gameplay mechanics; Tons of customization options

Uninspired multiplayer that isn't very satisfying; Bland; forgettable story; Few new ideas to be found

Front Mission Evolved, while being a drastic departure from previous entries into the series, is an amazingly fun game. While I knew when purchasing the game that it would not be what I had played in past Front Mission games on the Playstation 2, I did not expect it to be such a high quality game.

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.