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Phantasy Star Online Episode III is a video game released for the Nintendo GameCube. It has a card based play style, different from any other game in the Phantasy Star Online series. The story of the game takes place twenty-one years after Episodes I and II.
[edit] Storyline
In Phantasy Star Online Episodes I and II, the space station Pioneer 2 made its way to the uninhabited planet Ragol in hopes of colonization to replace their failing home planet Coral. In Episode III, they still have not begun colonization. This is due to the inner strife of the government of Pioneer 2, which has since gained independence from Coral in addition to beginning its overzealous uprooting of the planet's resources to exploit "the germ" a mysterious substance discovered on the planet which they use to power their newly developed "C.A.R.D. technology" (the acronym stands for "compressed alternate reality data"). The "Heroside" are government-chosen officials who take orders from the government to explore, research, and capture the Arkz, an anti-government faction. The "Darkside" are a team of the Arkz, founded by a man known only as "Red" who try to intercept and destroy the government's plans for the over development of the planet. They also oppose the use of C.A.R.D. technology due to its unpredictability and how little is still known of the germ, but use a stolen version of the technology themselves in order to be able to compete with Heroside.
While each character has their own separate goals and aspirations that may or may not pertain to the core strife between heroside and arkz, when both sides of the story are completed, one after another, it is discovered that the government, experimenting with the germ for clone technology, attempt to create bio-soldiers with the genetic material of Red's twin daughters. When they discover the test subjects, they fled and then committed suicide. The final boss for heroside is a rejected mutated clone of Pollux. The final boss for darkside is a rejected mutated clone of the other twin, Castor. After completing either of the storyline boss battles after the other, another boss battle will immediately ensue, with the source of the germ, Amplam Umbra.
[edit] Gameplay
Games are played either against computer players, or players against one another. In storyline mode, the player plays against the opposite side they've chosen. Unlike most games, there is Hero-side gameplay and Dark-side gameplay. There are secrets to be revealed in between battles pertaining to the goals of the group, and also, the personalities of the characters themselves. The player plays as a commander they customize themselves and each match represents a deployment of one of the twelve characters one each of the sides. Games are played on a grid, with chosen characters on a square. Heroside must use cards in a deck the player has customized to fight. Each card represents a weapon, shield, mag, attack power or technique from episodes I and II. They equip these items to themselves within a limit and attack monsters and players with them. Darkside have cards in a deck that represent monsters, attack powers, and techniques from episodes I and II. Both sides can use defense cards to intercept attacks, and players and monsters may be moved around to adjoining squares.
[edit] Heroside Characters
| Name |
Race |
| Orland |
HUmar |
| Sil'fer |
HUnewearl |
| Teifu |
HUcast |
| Saligun |
HUcaseal |
| Kranz |
RAmar |
| Kyrlia |
RAmarl |
| Guykild |
RAcast |
| Stella |
RAcaseal |
| Relmitos |
FOmar |
| Ino'lis |
FOmarl |
| Glustar |
FOnewm |
| Viviana |
FOnewearl |
[edit] Darkside Characters
| Name |
Race |
| Endu |
HUmar |
| Rufina |
HUnewearl |
| Hyze |
HUcast |
| Reiz |
HUcaseal |
| K.C. |
RAmar |
| Rio |
RAmarl |
| Ohgun |
RAcast |
| Lura |
RAcaseal |
| Break |
FOmar |
| Creinu |
FOmarl |
| Peko |
FOnewm |
| Memoru |
FOnewearl |
Note: Individual characters' plots advance only if the player deploys the right character to the corresponding mission.
[edit] External links
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