There is a popular role playing strategy game that has been around for ten years in Japan called ‘Front Mission 2089′. Versions of the game have already been ported over to the west by Squaresoft and have proven popular. But the game is really at its prime in Japan and now users here can play the game on their cell phone and battle other users whilst on the move.

The ‘Front mission mobile’ game for Docomo 900i handsets has just been released and lets you build your online, customisable, robot character and then battle them with other players, live and online, using your cell phone. It is a ‘turns’ based game with each opponent having a number of turns to play out their strategies, attacking, defending and retreating as needed and the winner is the one with the most life force left after a battle.



The game costs 525yen ( about $5 ) per month plus packet charges to play which could prove quite expensie for the real heavy user. Every day at 8.00am scores and statistics from the previous day’s battles are shown and at the end of each month the top ten ranking players are announced.

This real-time interaction has proven popular in game play on the big screens, with Xbox live and PC games like the Starwars Galaxies series enjoying massive numbers of subscribers so it will be interesting to see how this works with the new hook up and join in anywhere, anytime freedom that the cell phone gives and whether or not the small screen and limited interface puts players off.

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