Future Tactics: The Uprising

 PlayStation 2
  • Publisher: Crave
  • Release Date: May 10, 2004
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  • Summary: Packed with action, Future Tactics is a turn-based tactical RPG that looks and feels like an action/platform game. Built around a highly complex turn-based battle engine, the adventure showcases a single-player Story Mode, as well as a two-player Battle Mode. The plot is set in the not tooPacked with action, Future Tactics is a turn-based tactical RPG that looks and feels like an action/platform game. Built around a highly complex turn-based battle engine, the adventure showcases a single-player Story Mode, as well as a two-player Battle Mode. The plot is set in the not too distant future, when Earth as we know it has succumbed to a race of extra-dimensional creatures. Now the final hope for restoring order to the planet rests on the shoulders of a young boy, his sister and a rag-tag assembly of unlikely warriors. Future Tactics: The Uprising features: 18 stylized and high-polygon characters interacting in rich, full 3D environments; Unique, number-free turn-based tactical combat system designed to keep players immersed in the action, not the stats; 19 action-packed, highly intense levels waiting to be conquered; Massively deformable terrain. Landscape can be permanently destroyed, leaving behind craters and canyons; Compelling storyline told through fully animated and voiced cut scenes; Two-player customizable battle mode lets gamers tweak handicaps, power-ups and victory conditions; Experience point system allows custom building of team members, allocating upgrades as players see fit; Boot Camp tutorial mode allows novice players to learn good tactics right away. [Crave Entertainment]… Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 25
  3. Negative: 3 out of 25
  1. Next Level Gaming
    77
    One cool thing is that the terrain in the game can be destroyed
  2. Official U.S. Playstation Magazine
    70
    The real downfall, though, is the waiting. During the enemy turn, you're forced to wait through the individual moves of every single unit. [June 2004, p.84]
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  3. PGNx Media
    69
    The basic premise is very straightforward and isn’t likely to satisfy more than casual fans of the genre.
  4. Gamers Europe
    60
    A disappointment. It has a serious story but an ill-fitting cartoon look (or vice versa), it has fast-paced game elements tied to a slow, ponderous combat process and it’s too rough around the edges – though nothing is fundamentally wrong it has too many small flaws and they all add up.
  5. G4 TV
    60
    Future Tactics makes a few blunders, but simple and intuitive rules, dynamic and destructible battlefields, and a few great ideas make for a fight worth fighting in the end.
  6. Eurogamer
    60
    The story may not be the most earth shattering we've heard, the voice acting (though delightfully it's British!) can be a touch jarring on occasion, and it's initially frustrating and rather basic and rough around the edges in some other respects, but nevertheless it grows into something that you can happily sit down and chip away at all evening without getting too worked up.
  7. IncGamers
    40
    Given its derivative premise and simplistic styling, Future Tactics was never going to do great things. Even so, the execution is awkward and lumbering, and falls short even of the limited vision.

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  2. Mixed: 2 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. Hutake
    Nov 28, 2017
    7
    A good game to play, casually, with some friends. or to let kids passing their time. I remember to have a really great time with this gameA good game to play, casually, with some friends. or to let kids passing their time. I remember to have a really great time with this game even being kinda weird RPG.… Expand
  2. aspentitan
    Apr 5, 2021
    5
    This is a teen rated game which I would only recommend to ages 8-14 at most. The game is quite primitive even compared to its aging peers, andThis is a teen rated game which I would only recommend to ages 8-14 at most. The game is quite primitive even compared to its aging peers, and it sure seems a lot of development time was not put into the game. For one, it's a cd based game released in 2004 this sends the immediate tone it is behind the times. You can look on the back of the ps2 box and see the screenshots showing y and z buttons which is the gamecubes controls. (Seriously can't even find time to take a few photos of correct console gameplay that's a pretty obvious indication the game was shortcutted). Further to that, the options are very basic and I was very disappointing the game is presented with inverse camera controls for the vertical axis making gameplay very difficult unless this was your first game ever. Anyway on to gameplayits aturn based game they call tactical but really it's pretty basic but I can give it that. Some reviewers say this is an early version of xcom or Valkyria chronicles. I find the comparison may hold a minute fraction of truth about as much as one can claim uno is an early version of magic the gathering. All in all I say avoid maybe at launch time thx cold have been interesting but fast forward to today I can't see reason to invest in this game unless you are in the age range I recommended. I may be being harsh because this game does have some fans but honestly with such an extensive ps2 library I can't see the point of this one and it's accompanying quality unless you are a complete match to the age bracket and specifically looking for such a game. Props to a bit of originality I can give it that but all the shortcuts in development ruined my interest in the game extremely quickly.… Expand
  4. spikeybuddy
    Aug 6, 2013
    0
    DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME! This game is a complete mess. First off, to attack an enemy, you have to go into an atrocious aim mode that's about asDO NOT PLAY THIS GAME! This game is a complete mess. First off, to attack an enemy, you have to go into an atrocious aim mode that's about as accurate as a headline for fox news written by their janitor while high on lsd,crack, and pcp at the same time. The environments look okay for the time but the character faces were awful a few hours in people don't move their lips while talking. the movement is okay but this is where its gets horrible, the progression system. In each level in the environment are hidden things that power up your characters you have to randomly shoot to find them. THESE ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT LEVEL YOU UP! IF YOU DO NOT FIND THEM, YOU WILL BE HOPELESSLY OUTGUNNED BY LEVEL 3! The story is pitiful and the dialog is painful. Do not play unless you want to put yourself through a few hours of woe and suffering through the form of electronic media.… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#50 Most Shared PS2 Game of 2004