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Future Tactics: The Uprising is a genre-bending title that takes both turn-based strategy and action-oriented gameplay elements, combines them with RPG-style character advancement, and then throws everything into a world with highly destructible and deformable environments. It's an intriguing experiment that ultimately suffers from shallow, simplistic gameplay and an uninvolving story mode rife with bland characters.


You can blow up not only enemies, but rocks, hills, buildings, and trees as well.
The game is set in a not-too-distant future in which the Earth has become overrun with scores of green aliens known as Creatures. The Creatures appeared on the planet under mysterious circumstances and possessed special regenerative powers that made waging war against them a dangerous and largely futile proposition. After a young man named Low lost his father to a Creature attack, he eventually comes to discover the secret of the aliens' power--a machine called the Immortality Engine that will bring any entity that touches it "back to life" if it dies. Armed with this machine, Low and his friends set out on a trek to destroy the Creatures and free humanity from terror.

The battles in Future Tactics: The Uprising are of a sort of turn-based action that controls equally well on all systems. You start with options to either move or to shoot, and different characters will learn their own special abilities as you upgrade them. Your character has a range of motion in an area delineated by a glowing green circle; the range itself is dependant on both the level of the character and the environment you happen to be in.