Customer Reviews

Vanguard Bandits

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

If your a strategy fighter fan, then you have found your dream game. Vangaurd Bandits is definately the finest grid fighter ive played. The story involves a young boy and his followers of friends and family as they do their best to over throw the evil lords armies, and take back the land that has been stripped from them. Battle is done between giant fluent moving attack robots. each character handles a scecialized bot. Making for great variety. The story line is very complex and sometimes dull, but the fighting trully takes brains and quick thinking. If you like using your mind as well as a 30 foot sword, this is by far your game.

Being a fan of Working Designs, I must admit that I was a bit biased when I first played this game. But all personal preferences aside, this game is one that no RPG/Strategy fan should miss! Think Final Fantasy Tactics meets Front Mission 3 meets Brigandine. I personnally did not like Brigandine, but I must state a resemblance in the battle scenes. The standard game consists of sprite-based mechs, called ATACs, moving about a 3-D polygonal field. Once you enter a battle, the veiw switches to a fully polygonal, 3-D action scene. The different attacks are interesting to watch, but there is an option to turn them off, in case they get repetitive. Beleive me, they WILL get repetitive, until you learn new attacks. The battle system is quite smart, using stats like agility, mech ability, weapon, and relative position to determine damage and percent of success. The music gets repetitive, but the intro and title screen songs are CD quality, and fairly catchy. The story scenes between battles use text-based conversations, and, although they're helpful to the story, they tend to be quite boring and will have you tapping the controller, waiting to get to the next battle. If you do take the time to read the conversations, you will find a compelling story about a young boy and his friends trying to bring peace to the world. Common story, but it has enough plot twists and player-based decisions to stand out from the crowd. There are five different endings, almost 60 missions, and 32 different ATACs to see. You'll have to play through the game many times to see all the missions, ATACs, and endings. The game itself is very similar to Final Fantasy Tactics. If you liked FFT, I'm sure you'll like Vanguard.

I actually missed this game when it first came out and actually bought it about a month ago. This game makes a pretty poor first impression. The first few battles are coma inducing boring because you can't really do much. Also the storyline is sort of iffy at the beginning since they try to jam a whole bunch of stuff in your head at once, and you'll probably get confused. However once things get going this game is really fun. The game has been compared to FFT a lot, but the actual battle engine is more like Front Mission 3. It even has the same mini-cut scene when you attack. They characters taunt each others during the cut-scenes which can be really funny, but it is hard to see both the taunt and the attack sometimes. You gain new abilities by upgrading your stats, and equipping gems to your ATAC (Giant Mec) The stronger the skill the more AP (Action Points) it costs, and the more FP (Fatigue points) you use. When your FP reaches 100 your character is frozen for one turn, and can't dodge which can be rough. Overall battles aren't overly complicated, but they are very amusing and can get pretty intense toward the end. You'll start to get obsessed with getting certain characters to get their ultimate attacks. Most of the ATAC's look the same, but their are enough unique ones to keep it interesting. This game has three seperate storylines for you to go through. The storyline you get is based on certain requirements that you fufil in the game. All three are of medium length so it's a pretty long game if you add them all togather. It also has good replay value since their is 5 different endings, you will have to go through the game again to get them all (although one you may not want to get). The storyline is interesting, its not ground-breaking, but its pretty good, and can be funny at times. Its fun to see different characters become allies and enemies depending on your choices. Overall I think this game is very fun and should be in any Strategy/RPG fans collection.

For the Strategy/RPG enthusiast, I bring you one of the latest titles in the genre. Its called Vanguard Bandits. Vanguard was an alright game. It included some pretty sweet mechs called ATAC's (my personal favorites: Ultragunner and Toreador) and you had to stop someone from taking over the world with the evil equivalent to the games hero mech, Ultragunner, known as the Zulwarn that got its energy from the blood of people. Sounds kind of common, doesn't it. The new feature of this game that I call the ultimate, yet good looking, interruption. This is the 3-D battle sequences. This game contains a turn-based battle system, and when you choose your attack it shows how your opponent chooses to defend, fades into a 3-D battle sequence, fades back out and continues to do this for every battle. If they were going to do this, why didn't they just make it a Xenogears style battle screen. Oh well, it is a great game and I recommend it to any Strategy/RPG enthusiast.

Vanguard Bandits is the best strategy game this year. The battles require much more strategy than other Strategy RPGs because of VERY limited healing abilities and multiple ways to attack and incapacitate you. The characters have great personalities and the story, though not epic, is told very well translated in a way only the guys at Working Designs could do. Add in 5 different endings and you get a game that I definitely recommend for any Strategy RPG gamer.

This game is one of the best fantasy games I've ever played! It's graphics arnt anything to brag about but it has a great story! If you like games with multiple endings and a great story buy this game!!

I enjoy this game because of alot of reasons:
1.the plot is solid
2.there's a lot of reading, but it explains a lot also
3.there's 5 total endings that you can get
4.the game is real in depth and i enjoy turn-based battles
5.it's a lot of fun, definitley worth the cash especially since i think the company that made it went under. don't quote me on that, but that's the rumor so far.
if you like games like X-com, final fantasy tactics, and shining force, i would HIGHLY recommend getting this game, because it blows all the other ones away. This should be a standard as far as turn based RPG's go. enjoy!

When I first got this game i thought it wasn't going to that good, only getting around three stars from. It is a very fun game if you can get past some of the characters,(a little fat boy who drives a mech thing), and the annoying music. But, you will find yourself humming the tunes! The battle system is similair to Final Fantsy Tatics and Vandal Hearts, but you are in knight looking mechs. This game is also very addictive, you will be in your room for DAYS! Buy this game, but buy Final Fantsy Tatics first.

This game rocks. It looks like you're watching cartoons in the battle scene. This game is even better than Final Fantasy Tactics. The game has better stories and music. I hope they make a sequel to it.

I remember this game from when I was much younger. I didn't like it very much as well. Even trying it now - I could care less for it. Purchased item to complete Lunar 2 set. This game is not worth the price it is going for now. It is at a high price only due to the LUNAR 2 demo disc included. Ignore - unless you're looking for the demo disc as well.