Part of Working Designs' "we go to 11!" series of hot titles, Dragon Force does not dissapoint.

User Rating: 9.4 | Dragon Force SAT
Dragon Force was one of he games that once you started playing, you found that time passed 4 times the rate at which you noticed. You start playing in the afternoon and before you know it, it's in the A.M. hours of the morning.

This game was brought to the gaming public in a time where stylistic anime games were few and far between.

It being on the saturn probably didnt help its situation much but Working Designs gave it the all star treatment nontheless. Multiple CD artworks and a thick, shiny, foil instruction manual, and i havent even gotten the game!

Dragon Force was quite a strategy game, you coudl choose from one of several fascinating up and coming generals, each with their own mission and story, and then you start competing against the rest, with each battle having a different anime type cutscene and story. The way in which each characters experience was different, although you were conquering the same map, was simply astounding.

On top of that, the battles themselves were very well orchestrated. In some ways you didnt have all the control that one would want (as it is in many large scale battle games), but your generals had powerful magical attacks that could cut through swathes of enemies and turn the tide of the battle.

for its time it indeed felt like you were taking part in some sort of rocking fantasy anime set on a grand stage.

Working Designs never release a Dragon Force 2, although one was developed in Japan, fortunately for those of us that got to enjoy the first one, i hear we are not missing out on alot. Even still, i miss the good old days of that game, i would hope someday to see a re-release perhaps.