Front Mission 3 is a Tactical RPG left in 1999 on PlayStation. The play was developed and published by Square, become Square Enix. It is the first of the series of the Front Mission to be born on this console, and especially, in Europe.

Synopsis

The history proceeds in year 2112, where the state-of-the-art technology is omnipresent, and where the policy knows great turbulences. The world is organized in various political powers, USN, OCU, EC., OAC, the Popular republic of Da Han Zhong and finally the République of Zaftra.

The player thus incarnates Kazuki Takamera, test pilot of Mecha on behalf of the company Kirishima Industries which delivers them to the JDF (Japan Defense Forces).
All goes for best for him, until the day when, during a delivery, accompanied by Ryogo Kusama - a sincere friend but sometimes annoying - buildings of Japan Defense Force are destroyed by military alliances. A new weapon of called massive destruction MIDAS is discovered thereafter. The two large military companies, the USN and the OCU, want to seize some at all costs, and the interplanetary crisis is definitively launched.

to be noted: the play includes/understands two scenarios, one being played with the USN and Emma, the other with the adoptive sister of Kazuki, Alisa.
Except Kazuki and Ryogo, each scenario has six different playable characters.

Gameplay

It is about a futuristic Tactical RPG whose combat are held in 3D. The player directs there a team of pilots of Mecha S called here, Wanzers (of the German " Wanderung Panzer" , or going Tank).
During the engagements the player obtains money, which makes it possible to buy new parts for Wanzers. It is possible to choose the various parts which compose each Wanzer (chest, arm, legs, weapons) according to certain criteria, such as resistance, the precision, the weight; the total of the weight of the parts should not exceed the maximum supported by the frame.

During the engagements, the player thus directs certain numbers of Wanzers (according to advance in the scenario), and the objective will be for destroying the enemies most of the time. For that, it will have to move the robots on a squared ground and to show strategy to kill all the enemies.

Each part of Wanzer is managed independently during a combat. The arms, legs, and the chest have their own points of life. If an arm is destroyed, the weapon assembled on this one will be unusable, if they are the legs, Wanzer will not be able to move more, and finally if it is the chest, Wanzer is détruit.

Moreover, it is possible to eject your pilots (or enemies by the force) of their Wanzers so that they can recover some of other (useful if your Wanzers are in bad condition).

Between the engagements take place of the scenes of discussion being used for advance of the scenario, with the possibility of modifying Wanzers, but also, giving the possibility of sailing on Internet to include/understand subtleties of the scenario, and to learn some more on the robots of the play (and consequently occasion, to recover new parts).

Characters

Kazuki Takemura

• Old: 19
• Nationality: OCU-Japan
• Occupation: Studying with the Yokosuka Technical Institute, test pilot of Wanzer Division for Kirishima Industries
• Wanzer: Zenislev (or Rev Zenith)
• Specialities: Fray (Although it starts with a shotgun and a knuckles)

One of the main characters of the history, Kazuki is student having a pleasant and impetuous nature. Having lived all alone since the death of his mother at the age of 12, it feels a deep hatred towards his father, (colonel Isao Takemura, a well-known leader of the JDF) who was not at the side of his mother when this one returned its last sigh. Having a ultra-protective nature for his/her adoptive sister Alisa, Kazuki has a strong direction of justice and always does what he believes being right.

Ryogo Kusama

• Old: 19
• Nationality: OCU-Japan
• Occupation: Studying with Yokosuka Technical Institute, test pilot of Wanzer Division for Kirishima Industries
• Wanzer: Kyojun Mk107
• Specialities: Machine-gun (starts with Machinegun)

The friend of Kazuki since the college, Ryogo is a kind of relief comic for the history. With the difference of Kazuki, Ryogo is hardly serious about anything even during the battles. Trying to charm each female character that it meets, Ryogo is nevertheless a friend worthy of confidence and an endowed pilot, helping Kazuki at any price.

Emir " Emma" Old Klamsky

• : 22
• Nationalité: USN (Ravnui before moving in USN)
• Occupation: Enquiring as a chief - USN Special Alaska Radiation Laboratories
• Wanzer: Drake M2C
• Specialities: Missile (starts with a Lance Missile)

Creative in spite of it of the bomb MIDAS, Emma tries of her possible to find it and disarm it before a disaster occurs. Arrival in Japan with the group " Purple Haze" of the FAI (Federal Agency off Intelligence), and several other agents after having heard infos on the accident at the base of the JDF with Yokosuka, it is a person very serious, responsible and very gifted with piloting of Wanzer. Its family was killed by an unknown organization when it was 12 years old. Extremely intelligent and inventive, Emma is the creative one of almost each battle plan in her scenario, and in particular, the airborne attack of USN on Taiwan. She starts to develop a feeling for Kazuki while the play progresse.
Emma is only available in her scenario.

Alisa " Aliciana" Old Takemura

• : 19
• Nationality: OCU-Japan (Ravnui before moving in Japan)
• Occupation: Coed in Teihoku University, Radiation Engineering Department.
• Wanzer: Meledyne M1
• Specialities: Missile (starts with a Lance Missile)

Adoptive sister of Kazuki. After having lost its family at the age of 9, Alisa was adopted by the father of Kazuki, Isao, and moved in Japan. Very intelligent, it holds the first place of its class at the university. It was also recently named for the beauty contest of " Teihoku" miss; . Before the accident at the base of the JDF with Yokosuka does not occur, it was transferred there low to work on MIDAS.
In the scenario of Emma, she is kidnapped several times, but is a playable character in her scenario.

Project M.I.D.A.S

MIDAS, acronym of M atter I issociative rradiation D has cceleration S ystem , was conceived by Emir Klamsky, chief of USN Special Radiation Laboratories . MIDAS separates the Proton S, the Neutron S, and the electron S in a fore-and-aft Rayonnement to extract the énergie.
from it The fore-and-aft radiation is large a kinetic energy which breaks the molecular Liens of all that comes into contact avec.
In contact with water molecules being in the air, the radiation fore-and-aft becomes a stable element, loses all its energy, and thus does not constitute any threat for the environment.

MIDAS has the potential to become a new energy source, and particularly intrigues the military powers of the world for the following reasons:

• Capacity of energy - the standard models are less effective than the nuclear weapons, but of the more effective models can be built.
• Costs less - the output of the weapon is adjustable. The separation of the tactical and strategic weapons is not necessary any more, having for result, of the reduced costs.
• Facteur of dissuasion - the fore-and-aft radiation used by MIDAS is stable once it comes into contact with water; thus it does not cause any contamination (with the difference of the Nuclear bomb).

The history of Front Mission 3 starts when MIDAS was stolen laboratories of Dr. Klamsky by OCU-Japan. Several months passed since the flight, and during this time, the JDF tried to reproduce MIDAS.

Project Imaginary Number

The project " Imaginary Number" was launched to Orsha, Ravnui, in the current Bielorussia. The goal of this project was to create higher beings impregnating with the extraordinary possibilities. Unfortunately for the " Imaginary Number" , they were to be employed like tools. Their participation in Front Mission 3 is a key component in the advance of the scenario.

Behind the conspiracy of the national laboratories of Orsha of Face Mission 3 , the scientists engaged in the research and the development non conformist in the field of the genetics. This research had like consequence the creation and the production of the " Imaginary Number" .

Mailbox Gorbovsky was the chief of the project and became well later the ambassador of Ravnui to the DHZ. Its security force is composed of " Real Number" , less advanced version of the " Imaginary Number" , carried out by Liu Hei Fong.

Lukav Minaev, the first " Imaginary Number" , convainquit all the " Imaginary Number" to rebel against mailboxes and decided to create its own world by removing all the human ones born in a normal way.

Development team

• Executive producers: Tomoyuki Takechi, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Hisashi Suzuki
• Producing: Koji Yamashita
• Realizer: Toshiro Tsuchida
• System Plan: Kou Sato, Yasuhiro Sato
• Training course Plan: Hideo Iwasaki
• Scenario: Norihiko Yanesaka, Kazuhiro Matsuda
• Vent Plan: Takashi Tanegashima
• Battle Program : Mamoru Oyamada
• SLG Map Program : Chikara Yanagimachi
• System Program : Takahiro Matsuzawa
• Network Program : Kiyotaka Akaza
• Vent Program : Masato Shimajiri
• Dated Program : Toru Kuniyoshi
• etc program : Katsutoshi Yamamoto
• Hand Character Design : Akihiro Yamada
• Hand Graphics : Atsushi Domoto
• SLG Map Design : Yoichi Kubo
• Layout & Area Map : Shinichiro Hamasaka
• Music: Hayato Matsuo, Koji Hayama, Shigeki
• Programmer sound: Minoru Akao

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