0 to Z of Playstation 1 Games - Afraid Gear Another
Afraid Gear Another is a
mecha fighting game with strategy and simulation elements and is the follow up
to the 1998 game Afraid Gear, it was developed and published by Office Create
for the Playstation 1, and was released
exclusively in Japan on the 14th of June 2001.
The game is pretty much the same as the 1998 release, the
game is a mecha fighting game with strategy/simulation elements, the main focus
of the game is to build and improve your mecha by fighting in tournaments and earning
money to buy new parts and weapons.
The main battle system in the game is automated, you can
take manual control however your options when in control are limited just like
the previous game, you can choose what weapon to fire, the power level of the
weapon and what part of the enemy you are targeting,
Like the previous game this one has two modes the first is
Vs Mode see this is where you build and fight you mecha, the second is a new
game mode, this is where the main sort of story mode where you unlock arenas to
play in Vs mode as far as I can tell unlike the previous game, there are no
anime cut scenes that certainly made the previous game stand out.
Reviews for this late Playstation 1 game are impossible to
find so we head to GameFAQs for their user ratings, where 5 users have rated
the game, with the game receiving an average rating of 3.70/5, with 3 out of
the 5 users rating the game a 3.5/5, the remaining 2 users rated the game a 3/5
and a very generous 5/5.
Difficulty wise it is a 50/50 split with a total of 4 users
rating the game with 2 rating the game just right difficulty wise, with the
other 2 users rating the game as tough, playtime is a tough one to gauge with
just one user rating their playtime, with a playtime length of 4 hours.
This is the part of 0 to Z where
is visit five online retailers and see what the availability of the title is,
and what price you would be looking at if you wanted to pick this title up, the
sites that I will be using for this are Amazon.com, eStarland.com,
retrogames.co.uk and Gamedude.com I know the last one is very location specific,
but from a podcast I listen to I’ve heard they have a huge stock of older
games, I will also be including Ebay.com as well
So lets get down to business with Gamedude,
along with Retrogames.co.uk and eStarland.com, sadly none of these three
retailers stock the game, so we head on to Amazon.com where a Japanese import
copy is available, for a used good quality copy of the game can be picked up
for a minimum of $15.76 this comes with free shipping as well, the converts to
£12.29 in the UK, in the Euro zone countries you will be looking at €13.40 while in Tajikistan it will set you back 138.87
Tajikistani Somoni, please remember you will need a Japanese console to play
this game.
A good number of new copies of the
game are available as well with prices for a new copy starting at $50.72 this
copy comes with free shipping as well, with most of these new copies coming
with free shipping, prices for a new reach a high of $70.
Ebay.com has just two copies of
the game available a very good used copy of the game, this is a complete copy
of the game that ships from Japan and is available for $16.50 + $6.50 in
shipping costs, the other copy on sale is a good quality copy of the game and
comes with free international shipping and will set you back $29.11.
Written by
P J Gibbon
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