Development
There are two types of Front Mission installments: the numbered entries and the non-numbered entries. The numbered Front Mission titles are all structured as tactical role-playing games. All other Front Mission titles that do not have a number assigned to it are genre spin-offs. Each of the four spin-off entries are classified under different genres. Front Mission: Gun Hazard is a side-scrolling shooter video game. Front Mission Alternative is a real-time strategy video game. Front Mission: Online is a massively multiplayer online third-person shooter video game. The recently released Front Mission Evolved is a third-person shooter video game with rail shooter segments.
In an RPGamer interview with Front Mission developer Koichi Sakamoto in 2007, he suggests that the development team is interested in combining real-time and turn-based aspects for future installments.
However, in July 2012, Yasuo Otagaki, creator of the Front Mission Dog Life and Dog Style manga series, said in a Twitter message that the entire franchise will formally end after the manga's tenth and last omnibus volume is released in early 2013.
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