Wild Arms
Wild Arms is a Western-themed role-playing video game developed by Japanese software company Media.Vision. Originally released in Japan in 1996 for the Sony PlayStation video game console, it was later…
Wild Arms is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Media.Vision, released 20 December 1996 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and Android. The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.
What Wild Arms is
Wild Arms is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Media.Vision and released in 1996. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and Android.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Taking place in the fantasy world of Filgaia, Wild Arms follows the adventures of a band of miscreants and adventurers called Dream Chasers who scour the world in search of excitement and fortune. The player assumes control of a young boy named Rudy who has the ability to operate powerful weapons called Ancient Relic Machines (ARMs), forbidden remnants of a lost age that resemble guns. Along with his companions Jack and Cecilia, the group must use their respective skills to navigate through the vast wastelands and dungeons of Filgaia and prevent an otherworldly threat from reviving their lost leader and destroying the world
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Wild Arms series
Wild Arms is the first of 12 entries we hold in the Wild Arms series. The next entry was Wild Arms 2 in 1999. Its critic score of 80 is 7 points above the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Wild Arms Alter Code: F at 85.
How it was received
Wild Arms holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 25 hrs.
What it launched against
Wild Arms launched on 20 December 1996, within three weeks of Mario Kart 64, PaRappa the Rapper, Mega Man 8 and Robotron X. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Mario Kart 64, PaRappa the Rapper, Mega Man 8, Robotron X.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Wild Arms yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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