Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII is a single-player Japanese role-playing game and the thirteenth main entry in the Final Fantasy series. Combat uses a real-time variant of the series' Active Time Battle system, in which…
Final Fantasy XIII is an adventure developed by Square Enix Product Development Division 1, released 17 December 2009 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 55.9 hrs to finish.
What Final Fantasy XIII is
Final Fantasy XIII is an adventure game developed by Square Enix Product Development Division 1 and released in 2009. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Crystal Tools.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game is set on Cocoon, a vast artificial sphere that floats above the feared lower world of Pulse and is governed by an authority known as the Sanctum. When people are found to have come into contact with Pulse, the Sanctum orders them purged from Cocoon. Lightning, a former soldier, sets out to save her sister, who has been marked as an unwilling servant of a godlike being from Pulse and branded an enemy of Cocoon. Lightning is soon joined by a group of strangers who are marked by the same power and given a shared, unclear task. Together they must interpret what is being asked of them while resisting the Sanctum and facing the threat of being transformed if they fail.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 35 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series
Final Fantasy XIII is the 117th of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was Final Fantasy II in 2010. Its critic score of 81 is 4 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Final Fantasy III at 100.
How it was received
Final Fantasy XIII holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 433 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 55.9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 77.5 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2GHz Dual Core CPU, 1 GB RAM and NVIDIA® Geforce® 8 Series/ ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 series VRAM 256MB or later. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 60GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Final Fantasy XIII launched on 17 December 2009, within three weeks of Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Darksiders, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks and STAR WARS - The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Darksiders, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, STAR WARS - The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Final Fantasy XIII yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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