Spectral Force 3

"Great game, Story is lacking"

Spectral Force 3!!!!!

Introduction - You are a band of Mercenaries, brought together by the prospect of the amount of money you will get form this war, but also hoping it will end soon so you don't have too kill so much. You play as Begina, The teams captain after the first 2 story missions. Your job, is pretty much like any other SRPG. Control your units to destroy your enemy, any who, on to....

Gameplay - 8/10 I consider this game very fun, sure doing nothing but "Find work missions" can be VERY annoying but its nessicary or you would get owned by the story missions. The Friend Gauge/ Rage meter system is really cool, and easy to get used to once you get further into the game. The game can get annoying at times like when you MUST do story missions even though your guys are like, 3-4 levels below, and the fact that if you go into a 2nd phase of a mission, you can't back out making you screwed and have to start a new game if you "somehow" managed to beat the first part but the 2nd part the guys are owning you *coughs*. Also, another cool thing about this game is well, the amount of guys you can have in your group there are 30++ members that you can recruit making it so that each time you play, you can have a differnt team. Another note, ALL the achievements don't require ANY sort of multiplayer, making it great for people without xbox live like me who hate not being able to get 1k/1k.

Story - 2/10 There is hardly ANY story, you mainly just go around obliterating nations while you follow this boy that could be the key to everything, and has 2 evil demons following him everywhere that are really badass. That's pretty much it =/.

Replayability - 8/10 You get a new game+ (which gives you all your items and money that you had form the first save, making you UBER at the first mission) and there are "special" characters that can only be unlocked on New game+'s making you able to get the final achievements :D, and who doesn't like that? Be sure to play this again. Also, this game took me 50+ hour, so its sure to be awhile until you beat the game.

Final Verdict - 7/10 good game, gets annoying at times, has a few problems (game doesn't even tell you HOW your supposed to recruit members, so pretty much every "Mission" gives a new team member, you just have too find it out yourself), but all in all, great game. Sure, story is lacking, but if you wanted a story rich game, go buy Fire Emblem for the GBA (great game by the way)

Reviewer's Score: 7/10, Originally Posted: 05/04/09

Game Release: Spectral Force 3 (US, 07/29/08)