Chaos Wars + Bonus DVD

Four developers - Atlus, Aruze, Red Entertainment, and Idea Factory - pool their resources together and share 36 of their branded characters in a tactical strategy game which features faces from many franchises. The somber Beyond the Grave and Rocketbilly Red Cadillac appear along with Alice, Karin, and Yuri as main characters who share the stage with a bustling cast roster. Characters featured in Chaos Wars hail from Gun Grave, Gakuen Toshi Vara Noir, Blazing Souls, Generation of Chaos, Growlanser, Shadow Hearts, and Shinki Gensou Spectral Souls.

Chaos Wars is played in familiar tactical strategic fashion where players marshal a party of adventurers and battle foes by choosing attacks and magic from a menu of options. At the outset of the game, the party of two tackles a couple of goldfish-like creatures that counter with weak blows. The game play follows the same design specifics of Idea Factory's Spectral Souls franchise and might be mistaken for a game from the series were it not for the large assortment of new characters. The movement phases in Chaos Wars use a free roaming system where a circular perimeter decides the range of movement. Once a target area is selected, the hero rambles over and stands pat as he waits for the next command. «NCS Game Notes»