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BY GAMECENTER STAFF

SQUARE ENIX REVEALS MECHBASED SURVIVAL ACTION SHOOTER

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t a recent PlayStation press event
held in Tokyo, Square Enix showed
off a mysterious teaser for a new
project titled Left Alive.
The teaser filled gamers around the
world with excited curiosity, but the game's
bigger reveals in the following days proved
to be even more thrilling. Left Alive is a new
third-person "survival action shooter" based
on Front Mission, a series from Square Enix
that combines military conflicts and political
tension with giant human-piloted mecha.
The game won't be a direct sequel to any
previous Front Mission titles, instead existing as
a spiritual sequel that'll give the development
team a chance to delve into themes and
elements from a fresh perspective. However,
Left Alive will still have references and cameos
for long-time fans to pick up on, such as
the appearance of the mobile-type walking
weapons known as "Wanzers."
While previous Front Mission games involved
engaging enemy forces from inside your
looming robotic weaponry, Left Alive brings
the perspective down to street level, where
those mechs are now towering over you. Set in
a fictional city in Russia, a mysterious incident
has turned the city into a brutal war zone where
three main characters now fight for their own

BY THE

NUMBERS
130 Million Number of Nintendo

Switch units Credit Suisse predicts will be
sold by 2022.

00:27:28 Record-breaking time it

took a team to beat Destiny 2's first raid,
Leviathan (which usually takes hours).

survival. Players will have some amount of
freedom in deciding how each character makes
his way through the story. For example, do you
face the heavily-armored enemy forces head-on
or finding safer (yet more time-consuming)
routes for getting to important destinations
instead?
From what Square Enix has shown off so
far, gameplay promises to be a good balance
between a third-person action shooter and a
stealthy adventure experience, something akin
to what we got in the Metal Gear Solid franchise.
In fact, there are other reasons to compare
Left Alive to Hideo Kojima's beloved stealth
series, with renowned Japanese artist Yoji
Shinkawa (illustrator for numerous Metal Gear
releases) creating the key art for the game and
mechanical designer Takayuki Yanase (Metal
Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Mobile Suit

39 Vehicles in Star Wars: Battlefront II, an
increase over the first Battlefront's 11.
400 Number of players facing off against

one another in Automaton's upcoming battle
royale-style game Project X.

1.0.0 Nintendo Switch firmware version
that allows access to a hidden copy of NES Golf
in honor of the late former Nintendo president
Satoru Iwata.

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Gundam
00 and
Xenoblade
Chronicles
X, among
others)
also lending
his talents.
Those won't be
the only big names in Japanese development
working on the project, however. Big names
such as producer Shinji Hashimoto (who cocreated Kingdom Hearts) and director Toshifumi
Nabeshima (who worked on the Armored Core
series for FromSoftware) are also attached.
There's a lot more to learn about Left Alive,
which we'll no doubt be doing in the months
ahead as we wait for the game's release on
PlayStation 4 and PC sometime in 2018.



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