Armored Core: Formula Front
Unlike most other, action-oriented Armored Core titles, this installment is a strategy game. The player has no direct control of the mech in the action but can customize the mech as always, implementing…
Armored Core: Formula Front is a strategy developed by FromSoftware, released 12 December 2004 on PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2.
What Armored Core: Formula Front is
Armored Core: Formula Front is a strategy game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2004. It is available on PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Unlike most other, action-oriented Armored Core titles, this installment is a strategy game. The player has no direct control of the mech in the action but can customize the mech as always, implementing additionally an AI that will fight on its own. The role of the player is to customize the mech and train the AI on training arenas. The two versions of the game allow for data transfer via USB, letting players exchange mech data between the PSP and PS2.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are science fiction and warfare.
How it was received
Armored Core: Formula Front holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Armored Core: Formula Front launched on 12 December 2004, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Gran Turismo 4. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Gran Turismo 4.
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