Fire Emblem
Fire Emblem is an exciting strategy RPG that is extremely popular in Japan and has just been brought to America.
Developer: Intelligent Systems Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: November 3, 2003 Platforms: GBA JustRPG Score: 95% Pros: +Appealing Characters. +Great Dialogue +Addictive +Great gameplay Cons: -Very Long story mode |
Fire Emblem Overview
The game that took Japanese gamers by storm, Fire Emblem from developer Intelligent Systems and publisher Nintendo is finally released for the GBA in America. Intelligent Systems is also the same company that has given us the successful Advance Wars games as well as the much loved N64 game Paper Mario. When one plays through this exciting game it is easy to see why Fire Emblem has enjoyed 10 years of success in Japan. Fire Emblem combines both strategy and roleplaying elements into a very remarkable package. Gamers will be pleased with the impressive story, nice visuals and intense gameplay.
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Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is the long awaited release of the Japanese game for the Nintendo GameBoy Advance.
Developer: Intelligent Games Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: May 23, 2005 Platforms: GBA JustRPG Score: 85% Pros: +Appealing Characters. +Great Dialogue +Addictive Cons: -Story is a little boring. -No replay value. |
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones Overview
After a prolonged period of complete absence from American shores, Fire Emblem took the GameBoy Advance by storm, garnering rave reviews and enormous sales. A follow-up was practically a certainty, and finally came in May with Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. While this new entrant to the series adds little to the formula, it still boasts minor improvements across the boards and more than enough of what makes the series successful to please all its new fans.
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Folklore
Folklore is a run of the mill RPG for the PS3 developed by Game Republic.
Developer: Game Republic Publisher: SCEA Release Date: October 9, 2007 Platforms: PC JustRPG Score: 88% Pros: +Appealing Characters. +Great Dialogue +Addictive +Collection based Gameplay Cons: -Confusing in-game systems |
Folklore Overview
The storyline in Folklore follows two different characters: Ellen, a young girl who suddenly receives a letter claiming that her mother, who she had thought to be dead long ago, is actually alive and living in the town of Doolin; and Keats, a magazine writer who receives a mysterious phone call pleading for his help and to come to Doolin immediately. From there on, Ellen and Keats will travel through different realms, encountering a number of different creatures in the process.
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Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone is a video game set in the ‘Forgotten Realms’ setting of Dungeons and Dragon fame, with a script by R.A. Salvator.
Developer: Stormfront Studios Publisher: Atari Release Date: September 2004 Platforms: PC, PS2, X-Box JustRPG Score: 78% Pros: +Appealing Characters. +Great Dialogue +Story by R.A. Salvator Cons: -No replay value. -Mediocre voice acting. |
Forgotten realms: Demon Stone Overview
Developed by Stormfront Studios and written by R.A. Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone sounds like an RPG-lovers dream! While there have been plenty of D&D-based video games in the past, Demon Stone is a little different, placing you in command of a party of three heroes on an adventure to rid the land of two evil warlords. Is different good? Well, that’s up to the gamer. However, Demon Stone ends up playing out more like EA’s The Two Towers than it does other D&D games.
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Freedom Force
Freedom Force is an RPG beat-’em-up where players can use premade superheroes that poke fun at the comic super hero genre.
Developer: Irrational Games Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: January 9, 2002 Platforms: PC , Mac JustRPG Score: 85% Pros: +Appealing Characters. +Addictive Cons: -Sort-of Cheesy |
Freedom Force Overview
Freedom Force includes over ten different and unique superheroes for use in battles against powerful and mysterious supervillains in multiplayer or in the 20+ scenario campaign included with the game. You will not find famous superheroes such as Batman, Superman or others within this game. The developer felt that they would run into many difficulties using such licensed superheroes and felt that introducing their own unique ones would allow them to produce a better game.
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Front Mission 3
Front Mission 3 is a strategy RPG where players take control of giant robots as they fight a war.
Developer: Squaresoft Publisher: Squaresoft Release Date: March 21, 2000 Platforms: Playstation JustRPG Score: 90% Pros: +Appealing Characters. +Great Dialogue +Addictive Cons: -Weird Battle system |
Front Mission 3 Overview
Front Mission 3 is a tactics style role playing game that was released for the Sony Playstation 1 in late 1999. Players control robots known as wanzers through multiple story lines. This linear role playing game has heavy emphasis on its role playing elements and less on strategy compared to other Front Mission games. Players will watch a cut scene, prepare their mecha for battle, and then enter the tactics style missions. As players complete missions on the world map more will pop up until they beat the game. Although the combat is very similar to the other Front Mission games players are now able to attack the pilots of the mecha themselves.
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Front Mission 4
Front Mission 4 is the 4th Game in the Front Mission Strategy RPG series. Once again, you control a squad of giant robots.
Front Mission 4 Overview
Front Mission 4 is the fourth installment in the Front Mission franchise and was originally released in late 2003 in Japan and early 2004 in North America. Players control multiple giant robots called wanzers in a tactics style combat system. While still a linear game design Front Mission 4 returns to its roots by making the game very similar to the previously released Front Mission 2. Added in this new installment was ammo and the ability to attack multiple times in a single combat. This game has a lot to offer fans of the strategy role playing game genre, but leaves a lot to be desired for new players.
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Fallout
Fallout is a massively open-ended RPG set in an alternate future where the United States and most of the known world is a dystopian, nuclear wasteland populated by mutants and bands of roving bandits.
Developer: Black Isle Studios Publisher: Interplay Release Date: September 30, 1997 Platforms: PC, Mac JustRPG Score: 90% Pros: +Massive Game World +Great Dialogue +Amazing Story Cons: -Some Quests Are Annoying -Dated Game Engine |
Fallout Overview
In 1997 Interplay released Fallout, the game that kisses those tired old scenarios goodbye. The setting is a post-apocalyptic future. Your clan has been huddling in the comparative safety of a huge underground vault while the outside world is going to hell. After more than a generation of isolation in the vault, however, some of the technology that keeps your clan alive is beginning to fail.So, you set out to find equipment to repair the technology while fighting off mutants and bandits.
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Fallout II
Fallout II is the continuation of the award winning Fallout series. Players once again make their way through a desolate, nuclear wasteland as they try to survive and save themselves and the people they care for.
Developer: Black isle Studios Publisher: Interplay Entertainment Release Date: January 29,1999 Platforms: PC JustRPG Score: 95% Pros: +Appealing Characters. +Great Dialogue +Amazing Story +Good soundtrack Cons: -Graphics are dated now |
Fallout II Overview
Fallout 2 is set in the same world as Fallout 1 – Earth after a nuclear apocalypse. The surface is one huge desert, full of gangs, mutants, and large amounts of radiation. People live in cities that are full of dust and trash, in buildings that are barely standing. Violence, murder and prostitution abound. It’s not a pretty world.
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Fallout III
Fallout III is the third installment of the Fallout series. It has changed many things and given the game a new coat of paint, but it is still the same Fallout under it all.
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios Publisher: Bethesda Softworks ,ZeniMax Media Release Date: October 28, 2008 Platforms: PC , PS3, X-Box 360 JustRPG Score: 90% Pros: +Appealing Characters. +Great Dialogue +Addictive +Amazing Atmosphere Cons: -Feels more like an FPS than an RPG at times |
Fallout III Overview
Though the global atomic war of 2077 left the US all but destroyed, the residents of Vault 101 enjoy a life free from the constant stress of the outside world. Giant Insects, Raiders, Slavers, and yes, even Super Mutants are all no match for superior Vault-Tec engineering. Yet one fateful morning, you awake to find that your father has defied the Overseer and left the comfort and security afforded by Vault 101 for reasons unknown. Leaving the only home you’ve ever known, you emerge from the Vault into the harsh Wasteland sun to search for your father, and the truth
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