Front Mission 4 Review

Console : Playstation 2

Genre : Strategy

Prologue

Front Mission 4 game progress focused on 2 main characters, they are Darril and Elsa. Darril is a soldier that has duty for scouting on some area of South America, in other place Elsa is a wanzer pilot of Durandal (a wanzer research and test team from European Community (E.C.)). The stories begin with Elsa especially when unknowed forces attacking an E.C. German base not so long after Elsa joined Durandal. Although German government has already investigated this incident but Elsa knew if there was something didn't right about this incident. So Elsa with Durandal team decided to investigated this incident to find out the plot behind this attack.

Gameplay

There are something new on this front mission battle system, so now we can't only depend on upgrade and battle skill while playing this game. There are new attack link and defend link system, where we can attack enemies together with our ally in one battle scene (just like Back Up Fire skill on Front Mission 3). This new thing make this game became not easy to play (but I think this is still easy than Front Mission 5), because not only on our side that can do linking attack but also the enemies too. So we can't be a Rambo with going alone with one wanzer and destroying all enemies (except on tutorial off course) in this 4th series. Also there are new type of backpack for this series, there are jamming, radio, and repair backpack. Jamming backpack used to jamming enemies wanzer systems, like making enemies unable to move or system down. Repair backpack specialized for repairing any wanzer part, and the most special one is radio backpack that can be used to call air support attack!