Get your Japanese on.

It’s Final Fantasy, but it’s hardly RPG. That doesn’t make it bad, though.

Order of War is a game that takes place during later WW2 in the European theater that allows you to command the American, Russian and oddly enough the German forces . Square Enix is known throughout the gaming community for churning out formulaic Japanese RPGs following adolescent protagonists out to save the world from some menacing super villain. So, it's refreshing to see a company breaking away from their bread and butter to try something new with western developers.

Two petrifying pestilences for the price of one!

Classic RPG gameplay meets some of the best storytelling you’ll ever experience in a videogame.

It's about time.

Until fairly recently, the developers of the Final Fantasy series chose to eschew sequels, opting instead to dream up new universes for each successive game. Sure, they kept a few familiar names, creatures and items (chocobo, anyone?), but everything else was entirely different. This is what has made the series so remarkable—each game is an experience unto itself, but each is unmistakably Final Fantasy. The bad thing about the practice of changing most everything from game to game is that sometimes a game, or a game world, is so memorable and so fully realized that gamers don’t want the experience to end.