0 to Z of Playstation 1 Games - AubirdForce

AubirdForce is a 3D tactical strategy war game developed and published by Bandai the game was a Japanese exclusive release on the Playstation, the game released on the 25^th of October 1996, the game also had a limited edition version release the same day.

This is going to be mostly gameplay information as information on this game is extremely hard to come by, the game is a tactical strategy game where two opposing sides and their fleets of cruisers and wingmen on a collision course with each other.

When the game starts the player is able to choose between two captains, once chosen before you get involved in the brewing galactic war you are able to choose which pilots you wish to take into battle different ships have different hit point values for example a Scwater Type I has 420hp, while a Fighter Type I has 360hp a tougher Cruiser has 840hp, once chosen the battle will commence.

The games battles are fought in a 3 dimensional space with the battle restricted to a gridded area, during the course of battle the player is able to perform four different actions when in combat, Attack, Defend, Counter and Avoid.

Critic reviews for this early Playstation and Japanese only release are non existent, so we head over to GameFAQs for their user data, where we find a total of 8 users have rated this game with it currently sitting at a highly respectable 4.13/5.

Breaking down the user ratings we find not a single user rating falling below a 3.5/5 with just one user rating the game at this, the majority of users rated the game at a solid 4/5 with 5 of the 8 users rating the game as a 4/5, the remaining two users are split between a 4.5/5 and a 5/5

Moving on to the games difficulty we find that the majority of the 9 users that rated this category found the game to be tough, with 7 of the 9 rating it as this difficulty, the remaining two users either rated the game as easy or having just the right difficulty level, overall the game rates as being tough.

Lastly we move on to the game lifespan where we find 8 users rating this category, with all 8 spending plenty of time with the game. One user spent the least time with the game but still managed to clock around 40 hours with the game.

Another 3 users spent around 60 hours with the game, while the remaining 4 users spent up to and including 80 hours playing this game. Averaging out the lifespan of AubirdForce coming in at around the 72 ½ hour mark.

This is the part of 0 to Z where is visit four 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, Ebay has now been dropped unless the game is unavailable at other retailers.

So lets get down to business with Gamedude who unsurprisingly don’t stock this early and Japanese only release, the same goes for eStarland.com and Retrogames.co.uk so we now head over to Amazon.com in search of any copies of this game.

Where we do find some copies of the game, even with the difficulty in finding information on this game it is not overly expensive to pick up a good quality used copy with $7.43 getting you a very good quality used copy, which also comes with free shipping.

A few other good quality or better copies can be picked up for between $10 and $14, used prices are currently peaking around the $18-$19 mark with the exception of one used copy which is priced at $14.01 with a shipping cost higher than the price.

If you are in the market for a new copy of this title then you will have to stump up significantly more, the current minimum price for a new copy is sitting at $42.98 once shipping has been added in. A second copy is also available for $45.52 this copy comes with free shipping, these two copies are significantly cheaper than the two remaining new copies which come in at $62.55 and $65.97 respectively.

Written by

P J Gibbon