154 reviews
Sales Rank: 2833

Platform: Playstation
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4

MPN: 42212
UPC: 711719422129
EAN: 0711719422129
ASIN: B00002SVWG

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Many scratches 1Video Game with Artwork / Jewel Case.

Features:

•	Turn-based fantasy strategy game
•	Introducing the unique "Job" system, allowing characters to train in different character classes
•	Over 40 different monsters to encounter
•	Incredibly detailed and complex storyline
•	For 1 player

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Customer Reviews: Read 149 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Great Game November 19, 2008
Quite a challenging game. A lot of hours can be put into it and there's a lot of secrets to be found. Not the best game ever but certainly a very good one.

5 out of 5 stars

best characters September 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

i love this game to death. i have seriously played this game everyday of my life. not because of if its tactic battles (though i love it very much). but because its the best story that ive come across not to mention the best characters. the character designs are not extreme just classic characters with a classic story. i pick this over any original ff title except for 6 maaaaaaaaybe...and 9 top three for sure =]

1 out of 5 stars

Unplayable, forgetable, frustrating UN-Tactics game August 6, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful

Final Fantasy Tactics is a game where the player controls up to 5 people on a comparable chess grid against various enemies using a wide array of job skills, items, spells, and weapons to kill the enemy. Similar to standard RPGs, all people have hit points, magic points, gain skills and use them. There are many job classes, many combinations, many skills, and it all comes together in a giant mess. It makes for one terribly frustrating experience.

Good things:
-Graphics are nice and crisp (especially for the time)
-Job system is easily one of the best points of the game, where characters can use the abilities of several classes passively and up to two classes during battle.

Thats about it.

Bad things:
-Environments, while they look good, tend to be so cluttered that you can't see. There are controls to rotate the 3/4 view around to one of 4 spots, but there is never a good angle. Many squares can never be seen from all 4 angles.
-Movement, thanks to the terrible angles, requires a good amount of forethought. If you think you can get next to enemy and attack, think again. You are probably off by a space or 2, meaning that you just wasted a turn.
-Ally AI is terrible. Those you need to protect try to get themselves killed and those that don't need to be saved will never lift a finger. See a couple points down for example.
-It is necessary to spend a great deal of time leveling your characters up as the difficulty is either very hard or very easy with nothing in the middle. There is a set of battles, several in a row, where the first one is laughably easy (as in my characters were 20 levels higher than the enemy) followed immediately by a battle where you can only win by luck (the boss can kill several if not all in one hit). This is then followed by a level where you can (and will) lose without ever getting a turn! (thanks to the AI, the character you have to save will die in the first action). Very frustrating.
-Tactics it is not, as the only tactic you can do with 5 people trying to cover all important bases is to gang up and kill one enemy at a time. If you want something that makes you think, try something else.

Overall:
The gameplay, if tweaked, could make this enjoyable. But in the current state, please save yourself the frustration of having to deal with this mess. If you think banging your head on a wall is fun, then this is the game for you.

5 out of 5 stars

Fast shipping, good price! August 1, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

The case was a little cracked when the game got to me, but the cd was in perfect condition and it shipped to me pretty quickly considering it was travelling from California to Canada.

5 out of 5 stars

A hidden treasure! July 23, 2008
This game holds the spot as my ALL-TIME favorite video game, and yes, it's 2008. FFT is somewhat like playing a strategic game of chess with cool graphics, but more complicated and interesting and with a storyline. It is unique from anything I have seen and I was really hoping this style of game would take off with better versions of it, but unfortunately it hasn't happened. It definitely took me a while to get the hang of this game and I have to admit that I didn't really like it at first mostly because it takes time to learn, but once I played it for a few hours I was hooked.