Front Mission is awesome, I was just pissed as hell that in the UK I could only obtain Front Mission 3. There was a similar game for the PS2 released called Robot Warlord but unfortunately it was not quite as engaging.

Front Mission 3 is one of the biggest time sinks in my gaming career, building my pilots skills up with different weapons in the simulator took days however learning the secrets of the in-game network hacking was even longer. Though was totally worth it in the end.

The biggest flaw really was the main story arc split there was Emma's storyline (Emir if you want to be pedantic) and Alisa's storyline. The way you chose which one to play through was never really explained and I totally discovered it by accident. Though it was amazingly good fun to go through both the main arcs. I also liked the way recruiting certain characters could result in inability to recruit others later on giving each story different variations I believe there was a total of around 12 different story arcs total.