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Grandia III

Grandia III is a role-playing video game developed by Game Arts and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2 console. Set in a fantasy world where technology has allowed man to fly in magic-powered…

72 4 August 2005

Grandia III is an adventure developed by Game Arts, released 4 August 2005 on PlayStation 2.

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What Grandia III is

Grandia III is an adventure game developed by Game Arts and released in 2005. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Grandia III is a role-playing video game developed by Game Arts and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2 console. Originally released in Japan in August 2005, the game was released in English in North America in February 2006, and is the first main series Grandia title to not be released in Europe. Grandia III was re-released on the North American PlayStation 3 store on July 21, 2016. The game was designed by much of the key staff of previous games in the series and includes many features seen in its predecessors, including the battle system. Music for the game was provided by series veteran Noriyuki Iwadare, and features the opening theme song "In the Sky" performed by Japanese…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Grandia III holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Grandia III launched on 4 August 2005, within three weeks of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II and Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented.

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When did Grandia III come out?
Grandia III was released on 4 August 2005 for PlayStation 2.

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