When did The 3rd Birthday come out?

The 3rd Birthday was released on 22 December 2010 for PlayStation Portable.

The 3rd Birthday (2010) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The 3rd Birthday

The game is an action role-playing game described by Square Enix as a "cinematic action RPG". Director Hajime Tabata noted that the gameplay and plot are intertwined due to a newly introduced ability called…

76 22 December 2010

What The 3rd Birthday is

The 3rd Birthday is an adventure game developed by HexaDrive and released in 2010. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game takes place in Manhattan, New York City ten years after the events of Parasite Eve II. The player takes on the role of Aya Brea, and must fight against mysterious "Twisted" creatures threatening the city.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Parasite Eve series

The 3rd Birthday is the third of 3 entries we hold in the Parasite Eve series. It arrived 11 years after Parasite Eve II. It is the most recent released entry in the series.

See all 3 Parasite Eve games in release order →

How it was received

The 3rd Birthday holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The 3rd Birthday launched on 22 December 2010, within three weeks of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Tales of Graces f and Bejeweled 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Tales of Graces f, Bejeweled 3.

Cheats and codes

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