Hey everyone, welcome to the full history of Attack on Titan videogames.
We're going to be exploring every AoT video game. Starting with the first entry on this list.
When the series only had 12 manga volumes, the first official videogame titled "Attack on Titan:
Humanity in Chains" was released on December 5, 2013. It was developed by Spike Chunsoft for the
Nintendo 3DS. The game was localized in North America, 2 years after its original release
in Japan. The game follows the story of the anime. The player controls Eren at first,
but as the game progresses, Mikasa, Armin, and other members become playable characters.
The game ends on the point where Season 1 of the anime also ends.
There is also a World Mode, which is honestly a really cool concept. World Mode is a separate mode
where the player creates a character that enrolls in the Scouts. This character that you created can
buy gear, invest and upgrade facilities, develop equipment, and go on various missions. The
game was available for purchase in the Nintendo eShop, but was later removed for unknown reasons.
The game mainly received negative reviews. It was given a 4.9 by IGN.
It has a score of 46/100 on Metacritic, and GameSpot gave it a score of 4 out of 10.
Most of you guys watching this video have probably never seen this game before.
It's been forgotten mainly because other AoT games have overshadowed it.
Surprisingly, there have been multiple games that were announced and later forgotten.
A mobile game titled Attack on Titan: Howl Toward Freedom was released early 2014. This game is very
similar to Clash of Clans. The player is stranded outside the walls and must gather
resources to improve their town. Resources can be crafted or stolen from other players.
This game is no longer available, as it has been shut down and forgotten.
This next game however, might surprise you. This game is titled Attack on Titan - just like the
anime. So in order to seperate the two, I'll be referring to the videogame as Attack on Titan:
Wings of Freedom, which is the localized name. It was released in Japan in February 2016,
and a few months later, it was released worldwide. The game follows the story of the anime.
It was developed by Omega Force, and development dates all the way to 2013. Since the developers
have ties with Kodansha, the manga publisher of AoT, they were able to discuss with both
Kodansha and Isayama about the possibility of a videogame. Isayama requested for the game to
be something he wanted to play, he expressed his love for "hard and challenging" games.
It’s safe to say the game was very successful and a major improvement from the previous entry.
It was able to outsell Street Fighter V during its first week. The reviews were mainly 7s
and 8s instead of 4s and 5s. And since the developers were mainly using the PS4's hardware,
this led to major improvements in all areas. A sequel, Attack on Titan 2,
was announced a year later in 2017. But that is not the next game we will be looking at.
Let me introduce you to Attack on Titan 2: Future Coordinates,
the sequel to the 3DS AoT videogame. It runs parallel to Season 2 of the
anime with an additional World Mode for army creation and base crafting.
It supports up to 4 players in offline and online multiplayer. You can also customize
your own Titan and defend your base from attacking Titans in the defense missions. But there were
still some major issues with the game. The lack of an original story, the repetitive gameplay
and hardware limitations of the 3DS, didn’t allow for the full potential of the game.
Unfortunately, it hasn't been localized out of Japan and probably never will, mainly due to the
priority of newer AoT games and the discontinuing of the 3DS. Due to this, we don't know too much
about the game. It's very similar to the previous one, except it focuses on the events of Season 2.
In February 2015, a four-player arcade game developed by Capcom was announced. Attack on
Titan: Team Battle was later cancelled in late 2018, as the developers found themselves unable
to make the game high quality. The game had two known game modes, the first one where players
can experience the events of the anime, and the second one, where 8 players divided into 2 teams,
have to compete against each other to see which team can complete the mission faster.
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The next game on this list is the long awaited, highly anticipated
Attack on Titan 2 - the video game. It was released early 2018. As you might expect,
the game follows the first two seasons of the anime. More interestingly, the game allows
the player to create an original character and interact with the other characters of the manga.
The last mission of the game has an original ending, separate from both the anime and manga.
It also features co-op play and original stories supervised by Isayama. An expansion titled Attack
on Titan 2: Final Battle was released in 2019. This expands on the base game,
allowing it to include material from the third season. This is the game most of us know about,
as it’s the most popular and it’s been around for a while.
These next few games however, I was not expecting them.
Attack on Titan: Assault, released early 2019, is a mobile video game that has its own unique
take on combat and outstanding visuals. This game is very different to the previous ones,
and provides a whole new experience. It feature what you’d normally expect from a mobile game,
gacha mechanics such as daily log-in bonuses, achievements, daily tasks, etc.
The game was not well received, mainly due to the major bugs it had,
the clunky UI and relatively boring gameplay. As a result, the game was shut down in 2020.
Attack on Titan: Tactics was a free mobile strategy game
release in 2019. The main story features the first season of the anime,
while also including original content outside the anime and manga. The goal of the game is to
protect a location by deploying your troops onto the battlefield. This game shares the same fate
with almost every AoT-related mobile game and it was shut down a year later.
The final game we will be looking at is Attack on Titan: Brave Order. It’s a mobile game
that just recently released in Japan. It’s a co-op RPG game, where many players
work together to defeat the Titans. This game will also feature a gacha mechanic,
similar to what we’ve seen before in other games.
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