Wild Arms 5
Developed for the 10th anniversary of the series, Wild Arms 5 follows a group of young travelers as they fight for their dying land. Players guide the rag-tag bunch of heroes through a 3D world full of…
Wild Arms 5 is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Media.Vision, released 14 December 2006 on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.
What Wild Arms 5 is
Wild Arms 5 is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Media.Vision and released in 2006. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Like every game in the Wild Arms series, Wild Arms 5 takes place on the world of Filgaia. Humans are currently being ruled over by the Veruni, an alien race that landed on Filgaia 100 years ago. Dean Stark, the protagonist of the story, lives in a secluded village away from all the turmoil. He dreams of one day leaving the village to pursue his dream of becoming a Golem Hunter, someone who excavates ancient robots, like his idol Nightburn. While in the mountains, Dean and his childhood friend Rebecca spot a Golem's arm fall from the sky and land in a cave just in front of them. Upon entering the cave, they find a girl curled up within the Golem's hand. The girl only remembers two things…
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.
Where it sits in the Wild Arms series
Wild Arms 5 is the sixth of 12 entries we hold in the Wild Arms series. It arrived 2 years after Wild Arms 4. The next entry was Wild Arms XF in 2007. Its critic score of 73 is almost exactly the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Wild Arms Alter Code: F at 85.
How it was received
Wild Arms 5 holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Wild Arms 5 launched on 14 December 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 and WarioWare: Smooth Moves. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, WarioWare: Smooth Moves.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Wild Arms 5 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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