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Future Tactics: The Uprising

Future Tactics is an Action-Strategy game based around a turn based battle engine. The game has a single player 'Story Mode', a two player 'Battle Mode'. The player controls a team of nine characters. The…

64 10 May 2004

Future Tactics: The Uprising is a shooter developed by Zed Two, released 10 May 2004 on Gizmondo, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What Future Tactics: The Uprising is

Future Tactics: The Uprising is a shooter game developed by Zed Two and released in 2004. It was published by Crave Entertainment. It is available on Gizmondo, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Future Tactics is an Action-Strategy game based around a turn based battle engine. The game has a single player 'Story Mode', a two player 'Battle Mode'. The player controls a team of nine characters. The player must move each of their characters and attack the enemy creatures with each turn. The creatures will then each take a turn to attack the player. This continues until either the player has completed his objective or has been 'killed' by the creatures. The players must use their wits and make best use of their characters and the terrain if they are to defeat the creatures Future Tactics is a tale of love, loss, redemption, hope... and green, ugly mutants
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Future Tactics: The Uprising holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Future Tactics: The Uprising launched on 10 May 2004, within three weeks of Pikmin 2, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows and Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Pikmin 2, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots.

Official trailer

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When did Future Tactics: The Uprising come out?
Future Tactics: The Uprising was released on 10 May 2004 for Gizmondo, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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