News: Front Mission Evolved Backpacks
Posted on : 09-07-2010 | By : Cacophanus | In : News
Hardware: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
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Game Watch has a nice breakdown on the upcoming Front Mission Evolved that shows, amongst many things, the backpacks that the wanzers can equip. From anti-missile hardware to, the more interesting, hover/flight backpack. Interesting in the sense that wanzers have historically been ground specific mecha, much like the AT’s in VOTOMS in fact as they too have “rollers” in their feet. Admittedly, some of the Front Mission games have allowed the wanzers to jump and hover but this was relatively rare in the series as a whole. There’s no reason why it can’t work though and the backpack element means it’s by no means a permanent fixture either. The update also shows some of the antagonist characters, with emphasis on bewbs no less. The Dylan mercenaries sport wanzers with skulls for heads, just so that gamers get that they are the “baddies” (way to go on the narrative subtlety there). In any case there are lots of nice screenshots to look at and, for all our worries about the game, it is looking nice.
Perhaps the Dylan Mercenaries sport skulls for heads not because the authors lack narrative subtlety, but rather because they are fans of British comedy:
[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpZ8EkK3eWY%5D
When did they bring the old school Armored Core carrier helicopter?
http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/img/gmw/docs/379/397/fme67.jpg
(Just joking)