Persona 4 Arena
Persona 4 Arena is a fighting video game developed for Japanese arcades and later ported to home consoles. Based on Atlus' Persona role-playing game series, Arena serves as a direct sequel to Persona 4 and…
Persona 4 Arena is an adventure developed by Arc System Works, released 1 March 2012 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Arcade.
What Persona 4 Arena is
Persona 4 Arena is an adventure game developed by Arc System Works and released in 2012. It was published by Atlus. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Arcade.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Two months after the mystery that gripped the rural town of Inaba, Yu Narukami returns to visit during the Golden Week holiday, reuniting with his old friends from the Investigation Team. Their reunion takes a strange turn when they witness a bizarre commercial on the eerie Midnight Channel advertising a fighting tournament called the P-1 Grand Prix, seemingly hosted by their companion Teddie. With several of their friends suddenly missing, the group resolves to reassemble the team and search for answers in the metaphysical TV World, a realm shaped by human hearts. Once inside, they find themselves separated and drawn into the tournament against their will. Meanwhile, agents from a…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series
Persona 4 Arena is the 99th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Persona 4 Golden in 2012. Its critic score of 88 is 8 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Persona 5 at 94.
How it was received
Persona 4 Arena holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Players rate it 80, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Persona 4 Arena launched on 1 March 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward and Kid Icarus: Uprising. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Kid Icarus: Uprising.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Persona 4 Arena yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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