Valkyria Chronicles (PS3)

You'll love Valkyria Chronicles if you enjoyed games such as Oblivion. Valkyria Chronicles is an excellent world war 2 battle simulation game, with fantasy elements; where you directly control your troops actions. This game is outfitted with soo many options, diversions so that it is not all cinematic storyline, battles and then storyline. Rather your navigation to other chapters in the story or menus are through a journal-type book. As you progress through the game, you have the option of viewing cut-scenes and short movie-like clips that give you insight to the whole drama-filled story and renders beautiful dialogue.Then you will stumple across an "episode where ...  Read the complete review

Valkyria Chronicles is Sega's exclusively developed role playing game for the Playstation 3 console. The story is about the conflict between the Europan Imperial Alliance and the Atlantic Federation, its pretty much a fantasy spun take on WW2. Our lead character Welkin is caught up in the conflict as the two powers enter his home of Gallia fighting over the country's resources. He unwittingly becomes leader of Squad 7 and this game follows their adventures. The story is a little cheesy and predictable in places but it is enjoyable journey which will take you at least 20 hours to get through. The gameplay is an interesting mix of turn ...  Read the complete review

Valkyria Chronicles is yet another one of those titles that seems to fade into the background amidst higher-profile releases, and yet provides an amazing experience for those willing to invest the time. The game itself is a turn based strategy affair, which is set in a fictional WWII-esque era, with fantastic anime style cel-shaded graphics. You pick your army by hand - you're forced to take one or two characters for story purposes, but the rest is up to you. You can choose from tanks, scouts, assault troops, tankbusters, scouts and engineers to make up your army. You're allotted a certain amount of movement for each unit, at the end of which you can choose to ...  Read the complete review