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PS2 | RPG | Wild Arms 3 | Hands-On

Boxart for Wild Arms 3
Wild Arms 3 27 screen shots
  • GRAPHICS: 4.0
  • SOUND: 5.0
  • CONTROL: 4.5
  • FUN FACTOR 4.0
  • AVG USER SCORE 4.2
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 3.95

Hands-On: Wild Arms 3

Hands-On by FENNECFOX | 08/30/2002 | 16:39:38 PM PST

Remember the good old days when cel-shaded RPGs were novel? It?s fortunate, then, that there's more to the new Wild Arms than that.

Now that we're all used to cel-shading in Japanese RPGs, the anime-ish 3D graphics in Wild Arms 3 aren't quite the shock to the system that they were at this year's E3. Still, the preview version looked impressive and was as user friendly as possible. The most obvious enhancements were in the fighting system: Someone has obviously been playing a little Grandia II, because enemy positioning will now play an important part in every battle. Couple this with a new keyword-based conversation system, and you'll have a game that may finally escape the shadow of Final Fantasy when it comes out this fall.