Final Fantasy XIII Gameplay Video Quite the Spectacle

I think I know how the battle system works now.

Think "LEGEND OF LEGAIA".

Chaining combos to make special moves. Lowercut, uppercut, rush attack, etc, and you get something that looks like a cutscene attack.

Hardly original, but it's good that it's being implemented and popularised.

As much as I enjoy Final Fantasy, I'm really getting tired of the same "We're a group of rebels fighting an entire evil empire!" theme =[

trailer sort of reminded me of the beginning of FFVII where everyone is on the train...

All we need is a new trailer for Versus.

I have a lot of Japanese friends on XBL who has a lot of japanese friends on XBL and they're all buying it for xbox 360, Sorry Sony. =(

OH yeah PS3s Price Tag vs 360s Price tag, go buy a 360, cause from what I heard by Square Enix the Graphical difference wont be that big.

The graphics look great as usual. As for the combat system, it looks like they kept the atb but threw in the ability to combo and made it a little faster. Looks like it might turn out well. Only time will tell.

Any download links or torrent for the avi/mp4 of this trailer?

Anything but Draw & Gambits, kthx SquareEniX

IS it me or is the soldier picture looks like an enemy soldier from the game Killzone or the soldiers in the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

The first thing that came to mind when I saw the soldiers, whom reminded me of the clone troopers, in the first trailer was, "Damn, where the hell is Vader?"

I care more about the story and voice acting than the visual.......but once they get new toys they always wanna play with them and forget about the stuff that really matters.

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The battle system seems to be like from Xenogears. You have to press/select an ammount of attacks with one character in one turn, depending on the amount of his or her action bar.

Bring back materia system from 7, or the equip/learn system from tactics/tactics advance and 9. gambits and draw sucked so much imho

Of course they'll need to ramp up the epic crazy action bullshit in the cutscenes, especially after Advent Children.

Pretty soon, Square will be having their characters warp TIME when they attack or move faster than walking speed, firing bullets BACKWARDS through the very PLANET.

Whoa.

So that guy that looks like some sort of american bishonen bum is the main character ?

Looks cool. Gonna wait with the pre-order until near release.

Fuck the Final Fantasy Franchise

final fantasy is an old franchise..

but at least they are moving with the times and utilizing nice technology..

i think what's shown in the trailer above is actual gameplay / snippet of how the game would go for the first few minutes..

i may get a ps3 just for this lol

The NA FF site has the new trailer too in SD and HD but with subtitles for those interested in what they're saying.

This and MGS4 were the only games I wanted a PS3 for until last E3. Now I just have to wait an extra year(sigh). I hope the gameplay is anywhere as remotely good as the graphics.

"Will the gameplay system keep pace with graphical innovations?"
"Does anyone even care with these graphics and hopefully a story to match?"

i loled at this one! its true that some games really shows off a really great opening and superb cut scenes but when it comes down to game itself it often sucks or cant even come close to those over the top cut scenes!

for example "RF online" i was really surprised to see that this game has some sort of plot to it very rare for an online game whether its romantic or action based or both!it was really awesome the graphics was well detailed and the char.animation was pretty good and after watching those i was eager to play the actual game itself but then i found out that none of those cutscenes that was previewed earlier even exist in the game!! it was just a generic grinder mmorpg and a very boring one..so i played thanks to nostalgia...then quits after reaching the max lvl of 50 at the earlier patches...
over all the game SUCKS! its like a great yummy looking ice cream but with shit hidden inside....

I certainly care about the story, but the gameplay is probably more important. We all know FF's history, and as of late it has been bad.

Yeah I went nuts when I saw the new trailer. I'm wondering how that new battle system will work out. It captures the speed of FFX-2 quite nicely.

Combat's looking good. I just hope issuing commands isn't a mess like The Last Remnant's.

Is the PS3 version in the JP and US be release at the same time?

Reminds me of Final Fantasy: Crisis Core or FF XII...

I kinda miss the traditional version of the FF games.

The sooner this is out, the sooner they can lift that silly self-embargo of theirs on the PSP companion game, Agito or Fortissimo or Cunnilingus or whatever. Not that they've really kept us up to date on how close that even is to completion.

i'm curious at it's battle system and how it works

The game looks great. However, I've long since stopped playing the Final Fantasy series. Linear story progression in games just doesn't cut it for me anymore.

never played any ff games unless you count kingdom hearts but the game looks like the shit.

Looked like some blitzballers at 0:58 :)

Hows the gameplay? I found FF12 to be broken and bland the story was ok the characters were even ok but equipment was bland,skills so generic and broken it forced me to stop playing...then I got FF12"I" and found out even if I can play it on my PS2 with a boot disc its all in Japaneses.... with US voice work....

Heres a thought.... if you just have to release the JP/US release early and then released a finished edition...make it worth about 100$ make it for the US and JP systems or just the JP systems then make it have US and English text and voice work in it.... here's a hint you'll print more money than ever......

Meh ... after so many years, its still the same retarded time wasting gameplay mechanics, cool moves looks cool for the first few times but is tiresome to watch them over and over again when u play

I hope they let u use a Japanese track vs an English track

i want to play ff xiii for psp first

Wow, makes me want to pick up a PS3 with this game. That is one of the best gaming graphics I've ever seen on the PS3.

This trailer is the best thing since sliced bread, I wonder what the game will do :P