Front Mission 1st Remake Coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC This June

Publisher Forever Entertainment is seat to bring MegaPixel Studio’s Front Mission 1st Remake to PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC (Steam and Epic Games Store) on June 30. 

This is the same remake that was released on the Nintendo Switch back in November 2022. 

For the PC platforms, players can check out the remake right now as Steam has a playable demo available right now. 

Here’s a quick description of the game from its Steam page.

About this Game

In the year 2090, the world's conflicts are fought using giant war machines called Wanzers. Huffman Island, the only place where the Oceania Cooperative Union (O.C.U.) and the Unified Continental States (U.C.S.) share a land border is a hotbed of conflict.

Story

An O.C.U. reconnaissance platoon led by Captain Royd Clive is assigned to investigate a U.C.S. munitions plant. They are ambushed by U.C.S. Wanzers, triggering a series of events that plunges the whole island into war. Royd's fiancée, Lieutenant Karen Meure, goes missing in action.

Discharged from the military, Royd sets out to investigate what happened to Karen. His quest leads him closer and closer to the conspiracy behind the incident and the powers that orchestrated it.

Features

With dozens of characters to meet, its mature story, and non-Manichean protagonists, Front Mission is the classic of a tactical Japanese RPG genre, finally available worldwide.

  • ・Front Mission comes back in a remake

  • ・The game features a modern mode with improved controls

  • ・The legendary soundtrack fully orchestrated

In celebration of Front Mission 1st Remake coming out in June, the game will be at a 10% discount from June 30 until July 12. The strategy RPG is priced at $34.99.

The release of Front Mission 1st Remake in current-gen consoles and PC makes it likely that Front Mission 2: Remake, which is planned for release sometime in 2023 on the Switch, could also be released on other platforms in the future.