Front Mission 1st
Originally released in 1995 on the Super Famicom, Square revisits their 16-bit heyday and updates Front Mission for a new legion of fans. Played on isometric grids, various mecha from your Canyon Crow attack…
Front Mission 1st is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Square Enix Product Development Division 6, released 23 October 2003 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.
What Front Mission 1st is
Front Mission 1st is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Square Enix Product Development Division 6 and released in 2003. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in 2090, the story of Front Mission takes place on Huffman Island, a fictional Pacific Ocean island roughly the size of Oahu, created by volcanic activity south of Mexico's west coast in 1995. In 2002, the land mass was classified as an island, and was ceded to United Nations control. However, in 2020, the United States of the New Continent (USN), a unification of North American and South American countries, made a bid for control of the island after withdrawing from the United Nations. The Oceania Cooperative Union (OCU), an alliance of Oriental Asian nations and Australia that was created in 2025, dispute this claim when the two superpowers colonized the island in 2065. The tensions…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Front Mission series
Front Mission 1st is the fifth of 18 entries we hold in the Front Mission series. It arrived 4 years after Front Mission 3. The next entry was Front Mission 4 in 2003. Its critic score of 80 is 12 points above the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Front Mission 2: Remake at 81.
How it was received
Front Mission 1st holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Front Mission 1st launched on 23 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
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