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Front Mission 3 Official Strategy Guide (Official Guide)

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This is a well-written guide with a lot of documentation. You start off with a summary on game basics, which then progresses to a description of the different parts on your Wanzer (mech), backpacks, computers, items, and weapons. Next is a great table on all of the available weapons (broken down into categories like Ranged-Rifles, Melee-Batons, etc), computers, and backpacks showing each one's weight, action point (AP) cost, damage, range, accuracy %, capacity (computers and backpacks), special attributes (computers), and energy output (backpacks). Another table shows all of the Battle Skills attainable in the game, a description of what each one does, and which body part from which Wanzer you get it from.

Then you are given the stats for each body part for each Wanzer (those that the player can keep anyway). The stats include HP, movement rates, accuracy upgrade percentages, boost upgrade stats, and evade upgrade stats. Finally, each body part's attainable Battle Skill is displayed again with how many computer slots they take up, as is the condition for attaining them.

Next come full walkthroughs of both the Alisa and Emma mission trees. You are given strategy recommendations for each mission, told where you start and the enemy starting positions, which enemies you will face with their full stats, and are given a recommendation on what Def-C to protect against: Fire, Penetration, or Impact weapons. Also, you are given notes on when to check your email or the Network and who to speak to in what order so you don't miss anything.

The last part of the guide lists every "Website", any passwords, when they are available in the game, and in what mission their content changes so you don't have to check after every mission.

Finally, you are shown how to get the Hoshun Mk112 Wanzer with its 250-damage beam rifle (for free off the Network!). This is the most powerful Wanzer you can get and the most powerful weapon in the whole game.

All in all, this guide covers almost everything the game throws at you. The only thing it doesn't tell you is what you get if you have all platinum rankings at the end of the game (which is pretty hard to achieve).

If your looking for a great strategy guide for a great game, don't look any further. This guide has coverage of all the missions in each adventure. Each Wanzer is different. This guide tells in detail pilot skills, stats, and reveals secrets for maximizing effectiveness. This game is a lot of fun. It is much like Final Fantasy Tactics. If you need a strategy guide, this guide is for you.

As usual, nothing about this game is hard enough to warrant a strategy guide, but you're going to want this one if you want to get your hands on the best wanzer in the game, the Hoshun. There are also a lot of other secrets that you might miss if you don't at least have this guide handy.

If you have played the game (FM3), then this is a no-brainer...you have GOT to get this guide. It is beautifully illustrated and painstakingly thorough in all the nuances of this fine game. You get stats of parts, mechs, locations of enemies, types of enemies, as well as the storyline segues.

The guide also has the points in both storylines where "secrets" can be found....and this alone is worth the price of the book!
You'll want to play the game all over again JUST to find the stuff you missed all those other times!
It doesn't tell you how to "win" this game outright...just how to be a lot better at it, and that's fine with me.

This is an invaluable resource whenever the mood strikes you and you have a need to jump in the old "Wanzer" and wreak some havoc (and save the world while you're at it)!

This is a must-have item!

Give you all the proper maps you need,all the upgrades you should get.pretty clear and concise guide thumbs up

I bought this book and thought it would tell me quite a bit and in fact it does but..............just goto IGN and become a member, they provide a guide book which is just as good for FREE although it does not have the Alisa story line, there are only subtle differences anyway..............Don't waste your cash when you don't have to.